InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Emerging market stocks were laggards in the past decade By financialnews_rlv83x - December 26, 2019 0 43 Despite a strong start to this decade in 2010, emerging market stocks underperformed developed market peers and were weighed down by events such as the Chinese market sell-off, debt crises in Turkey and Argentina and the Sino-U.S. trade war.