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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emerging market

For the world's emerging market countries, there is another challenge in a fragmenting world economy: What will drive their own growth, if not demand from larger economies?

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

China’s market is down 11% this year, a far cry from the emerging market superstars: South Korea is up 122%, and Taiwan is ahead 73%, both surging on the AI chip boom.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

“People looked and said ‘hey, this is, in a business sense, an emerging market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Fund managers who’ve made a killing this year with positions in the three top-performing emerging market stocks are increasingly being forced to diversify elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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