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Emerging Stock Markets

Economists speculate that the Indian stock market is headed for a big boom in 2018. During the last quarter of 2016, investors and economists feared that a Trump led American administration would lead to a devastating crash in foreign markets. However, their speculations and forecasts did not come true in 2017. In actual sense, many international equity markets outpaced the American market by stabilizing oil prices and low-interest rates in loans acquired for investment. More so, many investors and money managers expect this trend to continue in 2018. Asset managers and businessmen, in general, see an upside in emerging markets such as India, Europe and many parts of Asia. In most of these new world markets, newly minted middle-class consumers are helping companies generate big gains for investors, therefore encouraging investors to undertake ventures in the said countries. For instance, India’s middle class is expected to grow even larger than China’s. Many Indian banks are offering mortgages, small-business loans, and checking accounts to the country’s largely unbanked population.

Countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are fast catching up to the American stock market. Fast economic growth and the increase in the middle class in countries such as South Korea and India has been attributed to ease in the access to business and development loans from large financial institutions in the countries. Small businesses are expanding and increasing their contribution in the larger economical markets of the world. Small businesses are becoming major contributors towards countries’ growth in GDP, and are beginning to attract investors from the western countries. 2018 is, therefore, the year to watch many foreign countries rise and maybe even surpass the USA in the stock market.

References

http://fortune.com/2017/12/21/asia-investments-samsung-stock/