Global investors have withdrawn about $52 billion from Asian emerging-market equities excluding China since the start of the Iran conflict, marking the largest monthly outflow on record, according to compiled data. Oil-importing economies such as India, South Korea, and Taiwan led the selloff as surging crude prices raised inflation and growth concerns. The outflows have already exceeded pandemic-era and Ukraine-war-related selloffs, with investors rotating into markets less exposed to energy sh

Global investors have withdrawn about $52 billion from Asian emerging-market equities excluding China since the start of the Iran conflict, marking the largest monthly outflow on record, according to compiled data. Oil-importing economies such as India, South Korea, and Taiwan led the selloff as surging crude prices raised inflation and growth concerns. The outflows have already exceeded pandemic-era and Ukraine-war-related selloffs, with investors rotating into markets less exposed to energy shocks. Analysts from Morgan Stanley noted that Asia’s vulnerability to energy costs, combined with dollar strength and profit-taking in chip stocks, has intensified equity underperformance versus the US.