Fast-charging emerging market stocks were entered so-called “bull market” territory on Monday, as another China-driven surge in Asia’s biggest bourses pushed MSCI’s main EM index 20% above its last major trough back in October.
Since hitting a near 2-1/2 year low in October, a combination of easing global borrowing costs, a weaker dollar and China lifting its COVID-19 restrictions has seen the index recover more than half the ground it had lost in the preceding 10 months.