STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 8 April 2022

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3. Ughh, for diversification sake, on steroids, I have a considerable percent in emerging markets

which have been beaten up in recent times by Chinese stocks, and now am sad to see that east European ones are being beaten up as well.

noticing this morning that some eastern Europe funds are beaten up. A well respected mutual fund company's offering is down more than 80% THIS YEAR.

So I looked at my emerging market funds -- fortunately, VEMAX (Vanguard Emerging Markets) hasn't done too bad year to date: down 6.26% YTD .

The other, iShares Asia 50 ETF (AIA), down 6.74% YTD

Not terribly horribly worse than the S&P 500 index fund VFIAX: down 5.46% YTD.

Using Yahoo Finance historical quotes, adjusted by distributions (i.e. total return), e.g. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/vemax/history

I was bracing for a lot worse.