CEW News and Press, WisdomTree Emerging Currency Strategy Fund From 02/10/22

Asian equities have extended their recovery today, and Europe's Stoxx 600 is also up. US futures are trading lower ahead of the January CPI figure. The JP Morgan Emerging Market Currency Index is posting small gains for the fourth consecutive session. The dovish hold by Sweden...

The US and Japan struck a deal to lift the 2018 steel tariffs (25%) starting April 1. ECB President Lagarde seemed to move into damage control mode yesterday after her hawkish comments at last week's central bank meeting spurred the jump in European rates. The domestic protests ag...

For investors who want to earn a reasonable return without taking excessive risks, diversification still works, and we think you’re going to need more of it this year. The weighing of the high-flyers is not over. Commodities had another good week, and the 1-year return is getti...

The NASDAQ rallied around 7.5% and is trading a little firmer ahead of the US open. Many Asian centers remain on holiday, but Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and India all advanced. Europe's Stoxx 600, with a four-week loss in tow, is up about 1% near midday in Europe, led by indus...

On a relative basis, we believe EM debt should remain attractive compared with other fixed-income assets. We have a tactical preference for hard currency over local currency debt. Chinese real-estate sector could affect markets beyond China's borders. For further details see...

At the end of 2019, had we been told that a two-year pandemic was about to begin, we would have found it impossible to predict the set of returns that followed in subsequent years. Historically, “tightening,” or “over-tightening,” policy was about corrallin...

The U.S. stock market is oversold, and there are less than two weeks of trading until the end of 2021. Inflation readings were very low at the end of 2020, but the December 2021 CPI numbers, when reported in January, could be over 7% higher due to base effects and low numbers rolling ...

Given the broad strength of the US economy and elevated price pressures, the low yields once again defy economists' expectations. There were around $13.7 trillion of negative-yielding bonds in the world at the end of last week, the most in four months. Most emerging market currencies ...

Equities are under pressure following the sell-off yesterday in the US. The BOJ stood pat and extended aid for smaller businesses for another six months. Unlike most central banks, the Bank of England appears to almost purposely keep the markets wrong-footed. For further det...

The Fed's hawkish pivot came a few weeks before yesterday's FOMC meeting, which confirmed more or less what the market had already largely anticipated. Australia reported a dramatic improvement in the labor market last month. The UK's preliminary PMI also looks to have been impact...