Fed chair Warsh’s AI optimism lifts emerging-market stocks

The MSCI EM Index gained 1% after Kevin Warsh called AI a historic economic shift, even as the Fed keeps tightening Emerging-market stocks got a lift on October 16, 2026, and the push came from an unlikely source: the chair of the Federal Reserve. The MSCI EM Index rose 1% after Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh offered upbeat remarks about artificial intelligence at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok. Warsh described AI as the most consequential change to the US and global economy in his lifetime. He didn’t frame it as all upside, though. Warsh warned that an AI investment boom could bring potentially severe inflationary pressure in the short term.

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