AFK News and Press, VanEck Vectors-Africa Index From 03/01/25

2025-03-01 05:00:30 ET Summary A challenge to focus on market analysis after viewing the most disturbing Oval Office spectacle of our lifetimes. President Trump and VP Vance just put Zelensky in his place at the White House and the world is stunned by what they just witnessed. ...

2025-02-22 04:00:09 ET Summary Bubbles are mechanisms of wealth redistribution and destruction - with detrimental consequences for social and geopolitical stability. The future of key international institutions, including the UN, WHO, NATO, is murky at best. Tariffs have becom...

2025-02-15 03:40:26 ET Summary For the record, the S&P 500 gained 1.04% for the session, and the Nasdaq 100 jumped 1.43%. President Donald Trump is embarking on what may be his most disruptive action yet for the global economy by broadening his grievances to how other countrie...

2025-02-14 11:54:52 ET Summary AFK invests in a portfolio of stocks that do most of their business on the continent of Africa. It is the only US-traded ETF that can say that. South African gold miners are part of the portfolio but don't dominate it, there is good non-tech diversif...

2025-02-11 12:40:00 ET Summary US stocks are seeing a subdued rise versus some foreign competition, based on a set of ETFs through Monday’s close. US equities are up 3.2% year to date via the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), which is a solid gain for such an early point in the y...

2025-02-08 04:00:28 ET Summary Sinking yields lessened the intense pressure on EM currencies, pressure which had forced 'doom loop' EM currency intervention and associated liquidation of international holdings. Lower global yields have been instrumental in restraining crisis dynam...

2025-02-07 02:00:00 ET Summary The Middle East and North Africa region has not been cited so far as a focus for the new US administration’s actions regarding trade tariffs. Countries in the MENA region that maintain a fixed exchange rate to the US dollar, such as Saudi Arab...

2025-02-01 04:00:00 ET Summary Monetary disorder was certainly spurred by the Fed signaling the end of rate hikes - and then stoked to precarious excess by 100 bps of rates cuts over three months. Technology stocks tumbled on Monday after Chinese artificial intelligence start-up D...

2025-01-31 04:54:54 ET More on tariffs Nervous Calm Shrouds FX, While February 1 U.S. Tariffs Look Less Likely Trump to follow through with 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico on Saturday Trump wants a universal tariff rate 'much bigger' than 2.5% Read the full a...

2025-01-25 05:19:10 ET Summary Donald Trump promised a 'golden age of America', as he used his inaugural address to unveil sweeping moves to undo Joe Biden's policies and reverse a 'crisis of trust' he said had engulfed the government. An unprecedented global financial Bubble unle...