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Consumer Discretionary, Real Estate and Health Care Were The Worst Performing Sectors in 2021

EMERGING MARKETS
  • In the second half of 2021, we saw that the rise in Covid uncertainty supported ‘safe’ assets such as the US Dollar and weighed on EM equities.
  • Consumer discretionary, real estate and health care have been the worst performing sectors in 2021, down 29.4%, 25.1% and 20.5%, respectively.
  • Falling consumer confidence, the collapse of China real-estate developer Evergrande and strong ‘reversal’ following Covid19 gains in 2020 were among the major factors behind the three sectors’ poor performance last year.
  • Telecom and Energy sectors were the two best performing sectors (up 19.5% and 16.7%, respectively). The strong recovery in oil prices and social distancing measures were the two major drivers behind the sectors’ outperformance in 2021
  • Last month, EM equities (MSCI) were up 1.6%, with health care and consumer discretionary down 6% and 4.7%, while Utilities and IT were the top performing sectors (up 6.3% and 6.1%, respectively).

Source: Bloomberg/MNI

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