Trump’s Tariff Plans Spook Emerging-Market Investors

Ted

FYI: President Donald Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel hit the currencies of export-dependent countries such as Mexico and Russia and contributed to a 2.8% decline in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which measures stock performance, for the week ended Friday.
Regards,
Ted
http://www.cetusnews.com/business/Trump’s-Tariff-Plans-Spook-Emerging-Market-Investors-.rykCGOY_M.html

Crash

Kit Juckes. He's mentioned in the article which Ted has linked here. I've heard him interviewed on tv more than once. Sounds quite smart to me.
https://cib.societegenerale.com/en/author-detail/author/kit-juckes/

catch22

Per my views of active Fidelity funds I check at the end of a trading day; emerging markets have had downward pressure since the end of January.
Let this chart of 3 widely held etf's be your guide to any other time frame reactions.

http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.php?EEM,VWO,IEMG,SPY&n=200&O=011000

SPY added for non-EM reference.

Old_Joe

@catch22- But if you just add the S&P500 to that chart there is no significant difference in the types of movement. All pretty much the same.