Animals Rescued From the 'World’s Worst Zoo'

When a rescue team arrived to evacuate a closing zoo near the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis in late August, just 15 animals remained. They included Laziz, a nine-year-old Bengal tiger that is—according to Four Paws, the Vienna-based animal-welfare nonprofit that led the rescue—the last tiger in Gaza. There were also five monkeys, an emu, a pelican, two buzzards, two porcupines, two tortoises, and a doe. The doe had lost her fawn to wounds shortly before the rescuers arrived.

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Emerging Markets Are Climbing Back From the Dead

Stocks and bonds from Thailand, Indonesia and other developing economies are emerging from their burrow. After ranking as some of the world's worst investments the last few years, emerging markets have produced some of the best returns of 2016. Gains have been so big for Brazilian bank Banco Bradesco, Chinese technology giant Tencent and emerging-market stocks in general that the average mutual fund invested in them has returned 11.5 percent this year.

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Dollar’s Decline Reverberates as Emerging Markets Rise With Gold

The dollar’s slide is gathering pace and that’s proving as much a boon for emerging markets and commodities as it is a drag for European equities. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index sank to its weakest since June before reports on housing starts, inflation and industrial output that may add to signs growth in the world’s largest economy is losing momentum. Emerging-market currencies reached the strongest in more than a year and stocks from those nations gained for a ninth day. The pound jumped as U.K. inflation accelerated in July more than economists predicted, and the yen strengthened through 100 per dollar. Precious metals advanced with Treasuries.

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Emerging Markets Gaining Favor Despite China Concerns

The hunt for yield is driving investors back into emerging markets – but there are a few key differences this time round.  Emerging market equities, measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, are now 30 percent up from the low seen at the end of January, and have rallied by 13 percent since the post-Brexit referendum sell-off.  Plus, in the past five weeks, record amounts of money have been invested in emerging market debt, according to figures from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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Emerging Markets Have a Place in the Portfolio

Over the last five years, investors in emerging markets mutual funds have paid plenty and gotten little in return.

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Emerging Markets’ Challenge to Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley leads the global technology innovation markets with the credentials and an ecosystem that is second to none. We have had contact with many of the leading technology accelerators operating out of Silicon Valley, and their opening line for the conversation is often: “How are you relevant to us?”

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Brexit Effect Ripples Through Emerging Markets

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union continued to hurt emerging markets on Monday, sending currencies and stocks falling from Mexico to Poland as investors fled riskier assets.  The declines highlight how Brexit is causing ripple effects across the world, raising uncertainty about global growth and pushing investors into assets they see as safe, such as the U.S. dollar. The dollar’s gains then feed back into concerns about emerging markets, making their greenback-denominated debt and the commodities they sell more expensive.

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India Outshines Emerging Markets

Since Raghuram Rajan took over as RBI governor on September 4, 2013, Indian equities have been the best performer among all emerging markets. 

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Emerging Markets Led Overall Market Performance

Global equity markets, represented by the MSCI AC World Index, closed with a gain of 0.62 per cent for the week ended June 3, 2016.  As a whole, emerging markets outperformed developed markets as the MSCI Emerging Markets and the MSCI Asia ex Japan indices closed with larger gains of 1.37 per cent and 1.28 per cent respectively.  Among developed markets, Japan emerged as the best performer, with the Nikkei 225 index closing 2.21 per cent higher.  The US, represented by the S&P 500 Index, registered a gain of 0.39 per cent while the Stoxx 600 Index ended the week 0.34 per cent lower.

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What Is an Emerging Market?

In April this year, the World Bank released its 2016 edition of World Development Indicators, and for the first time, it stopped classifying countries as "developing" and "developed." According to the organization, the distinction was no longer relevant, as it aims to use a set of sustainable development goals that can be applied to all countries.

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