Oil prices soar in the U.S.-Iran war, leading to volatility in emerging markets, and showing how concentrated EM funds are in Asian economies.

Traders are bracing for more weakness in emerging-market currencies over the coming month as the Iran war escalates, according to a key options pricing measure.

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.

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,

Emerging-market assets broadly advanced Tuesday in a volatile session, as mixed signals from the US administration rattled global markets and sent oil prices swinging.

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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.

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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 ...