Keep a Delicate Balance With Foreign Stocks
by Nellie S. Huang, Senior Associate Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Jun 03, 2020
3 minutes
Investing in foreign stocks may not be as precarious as walking a tightrope, but lately, it hasn't been a cakewalk, either. For more than a decade, international shares have trailed U.S. stocks. Then came the pandemic sell-off. From peak to trough, the MSCI EAFE and the MSCI Emerging Markets indexes nose-dived 34% each, level with the drop in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.
Most markets have rallied since then, but U.S. stocks still lead the way, thanks in part to a slew of
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