Vanguard Emerging Markets Govt Bd ETF

In March 2017, Citi’s fixed income indexes decided to include onshore Chinese bonds (EMB) (PCY) in its three government bond indexes.

The opening of China’s onshore bond market (EMB) (PCY) was a gradual process that included a number of cautious measures.

It’s useful to analyze the historical returns of credit rating categories within emerging markets bonds.

The yuan remains a focus of attention of the international community and a key risk for China’s macroeconomic stability in recent years.

Government bond yields in China are higher than its Asian counterparts such as South Korea and Singapore and much higher than major developed markets.

China’s onshore bond market (EMB), consisting of locally denominated and issued bonds, is larger than the offshore bond market.

Emerging market bonds have been doing extremely well over the past couple of months. EM debt funds have been in the green for seven consecutive weeks.

Emerging market debt (EMB) offers plenty of opportunities to investors. Markets are expected to continue their outperformance for the next few quarters.

Under the current uncertain economic circumstances, investors flocked to emerging market debts in search of higher yields.

In the long term, Eastern Europe is largely affected by the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union because of its strong trade links.

By early July, some $11.5 trillion in bonds were trading at negative rates, with 58% of the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index1 trading below 1%.

Global emerging markets (“EM”) debt, both hard and local currency, rebounded strongly in June after a significant retracement in May.