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Stocks Finish Mixed Amid Worry About Slowing Economic Growth The Wall Street JournalDow Falls 700 Points With Global Recession Fears 'Front And Center' Forbes Breaking NewsStocks stage big comeback Tuesday with S&P 500 finishing slightly higher after erasing 2% loss CNBCWhy Are Stocks Down Today? InvestorPlaceS&P 500 Sinks Along with Oil Prices as Recession Anxiety Reaches Fever Pitch DailyFX
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 U.S. stocks booked a dramatic turnaround on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both ending a choppy session higher, even as investors kept an eye on signs that the U.S. could slip into a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.4%, or about 130 points, to finish near 30,967. At the session's low, the blue-chip index traded about 600 points lower, according to FactSet data. The S&P 500 index eked out a gain of 0.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite Index closed up 1.8%. A strong U.S. dollar and tumbling oil prices also were in focus, with the U.S. benchmark falling 8.2% to close below $100 a barrel, its lowest in more than two months.
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Inflation has been the dominant theme in investing across 2022 - and that goes well beyond domestic equities. Consumer prices have rapidly risen around the world, and even Wall Street's best emerging markets funds have felt the pinch.
"Many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have recently been experiencing an unpleasant combination of elevated inflation and rising borrowing costs," says the Brookings Institute, which points out that March's 8.5% in emerging markets consumer prices was the highest level since 2008.
Regardless, emerging markets stocks can be a smart diversification tool, providing growth potential greater than that of the U.S. and other developed markets. Just keep in mind that expecting quick gains from EMs - especially amid historic highs for inflation and mounting economic uncertainty - could be a recipe for disappointment. Emerging markets also are known for their instability, with performance often coming in fits and starts.
That said, over time, investing in emerging markets funds can, over time, provide differentiated returns. Thus, now - while EMs are down - might be a good time for patient investors to build their positions.
Here, we look at some of the best emerging markets mutual funds you can buy. This list is a combination of index and actively managed mutual funds, so every investor should be able to find something that fits their preferences.
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Rallies in the shares of the biggest technology company's helped lift the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 to a healthy gain, even as the broader stock market was selling off. The Nasdaq 100 climbed 1.3% in afternoon trading, reversing an earlier drop of as much as 1.9%, as the index's top-five most valuable companies by market capitalization all rose. Shares of Apple Inc. gained 1.5%, Microsoft Corp. rose 1.0%, Alphabet Inc. ran up 3.8%, Amazon.com Inc. advanced 3.6% and Tesla Inc. tacked on 1.9%. The index's biggest gainer was early-pandemic beneficiary Zoom Video Communications Inc.'s stock , which rose 7.8%. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 279 points, or 0.9%, and the S&P 500 declined 0.9%.
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