International Stocks Are Surging — 4 Ways to Buy in
Tariff uncertainty and recession fears have pushed the US stock market downward in 2025. The Nasdaq 100 fell 4% on Monday alone, its biggest single-day drop since September 2022.
But in a shift of trends, international stocks haven’t suffered the same fate.
Year-to-date, the S&P 500 has declined 5%, while the Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF (VEU) has posted a 6.5% gain — a performance differential approaching 11%.
With macroeconomic tailwinds like a Chinese stimulus package and European defense spending, international stocks are looking up, and market experts who were once extremely underweight on overseas markets are changing their tune.
“Given that developments abroad have allayed some of our macroeconomic…
