Concerns are rising over a sharp drop in business activity and a potential recession that follows the lockdowns.
The rally was most extreme in Australia, where the benchmark index swung from an 8.1% loss to a 4.4% gain.
MSCI expects its ESG indexes to eventually get more following than its traditional benchmark offerings.
Deutsche Bank Wealth Management analysts are beginning to favor value stocks and Asian equities.
Howard Marks told Michael Milken that capitalism achieves the greatest economic progress, but income inequality is a worry.
After a poor first 10 months of 2018, many analysts think emerging markets will perform better in 2019.
Analysts are predicting which stocks may be added to and deleted from the MSCI Index.
Companies that survived from the long period of cheap money are going to be squeezed, he said.
There’s a danger of contagion from the deteriorating situation in Turkey, he said.
The upheavals are the only constant in a market engrossed by trade.