emerging market

American  

noun

1. a market in a less developed country whose economy is just beginning to grow.

   emerging markets open to foreign investors.

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emerging market British  

noun

1. a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country

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Example Sentences

The ECB and BOE could start hiking in June or July, and if the Fed hikes rates, more emerging market economies could tighten policy, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

In the battle between the two leading emerging market stock ETFs, iShares has the advantage.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Much like the emerging market of patients willing to pay cash for GLP-1s, Veradermics has said it expects to take a similar strategy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

"The Middle East was suddenly in exactly the right place for the emerging market, which was well east of the Atlantic," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

The banking system, while increasing consumer lending and growing at a high rate, is still small relative to the banking sectors of Russia's emerging market peers.

From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency