Milei spoke ​to investors and executives at JPMorgan's new headquarters in Midtown Manhattan as part of "Argentina Week," a New York roadshow to convince financiers that the South American country's stabilization effort remains ‌an attractive investment story despite the tense global ‌backdrop.

The best day on South Korea’s stock market in nearly two decades is leading a recovery in emerging-market equities as signals that Iran may be ready to reduce tensions in its six-day war with the US and Israel boosted riskier assets.

The rush of cash out of risk assets has rattled emerging markets since war engulfed the Middle East, but some investors are betting that economic fundamentals and ​fragmented geopolitics will allow a year-long rally to resume.

i Data as of February 2026. EM Bonds are represented by the 50% J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index - Emerging Markets Global Diversified (GBI-EM) and 50% J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI). Global bonds are represented by the ICE BofA Global Broad Market Index. US Bonds are represented by the ICE BofA US Broad Market Index.

EEM is up over the past 12 months, then dropped 8.41% in a single week ending March 6, 2026. That kind of whipsaw is not a glitch in the fund — it is exactly how emerging market exposure behaves when macro sentiment shifts.

The oil price spike brought on by the war in Iran has, for now, short-circuited a monetary easing push among emerging market central banks from Poland to Turkey as policymakers reckon with a sharp uptick in inflation expectations and rising ​risk aversion.

Relationship building in emerging markets succeeds through small gestures, not grand promises. Sometimes all it takes is a handful of salted almonds to make a friend.

WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund (NYSEARCA:DEM) currently yields 4.49%, nearly double what you get from the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:VYM), which yields 2.34%. That yield gap is real,

March 6 (Reuters) - Emerging market equity funds have posted steep declines this month as investors cut exposure to risk assets amid the escalating Iran conflict, making them among the worst performers across asset classes.

Investors are scrambling to reassess interest-rate bets as oil whipsaws, upending one of the best trades in emerging markets. As currencies across the developing world sink amid escalating conflict in the Middle East, money markets have flipped from ...