CHIM News and Press, Global X MSCI China Materials From 04/24/24

2024-04-24 14:55:00 ET Summary Consumption continued to drive growth in the first quarter. We expect a continuation of broad growth, particularly in the United States. All in, we believe developed markets should continue to grow by 2%-plus on a sustainable basis. ... ...

2024-04-24 12:30:00 ET Summary Last week brought hawkish remarks from a cast of Federal Open Market Committee members. I still believe a US rate cut in June and a total of three cuts for the year are very real possibilities, but markets need to see more data. Prices for West T...

2024-04-22 13:25:00 ET Summary Current data, alongside several longstanding global shifts, reveal that the global economy is transitioning. The global economy may be shifting from a low inflationary paradigm driven by disinflationary forces to an inflationary paradigm. Investo...

2024-04-20 05:05:59 ET Summary We can assume that global carry trades have mushroomed over recent years to the Trillions, with speculative leverage seductively bolstering liquidity and asset prices virtually everywhere. Losses are mounting throughout Asian currency markets. Ch...

2024-04-19 07:45:00 ET Summary This year started on a strong note, with global equity markets gaining 8.9%. With better-than-expected economic data being published in the U.S., but also in Europe and China, market confidence grew, leading to a regional broadening of the bull marke...

2024-04-18 07:45:00 ET Summary Amid all-time highs for gold and sticky inflation, we turn our eye to the concerning fiscal outlook for 2025. At the end of 2023, we suggested that the three major macro factors - monetary policy, government spending and global economic growth - woul...

2024-04-17 09:25:00 ET Summary Investors have traditionally considered emerging markets a riskier investment opportunity set than developed markets. But the risk-return characteristics of EMs may be changing, as reflected recently in compressed EM sovereign spreads and realized eq...

2024-04-17 05:00:00 ET Summary Inflation cooled substantially last year, but upside surprises in early 2024 for the US and Europe have many investors concerned that the path back to normal has hit a roadblock. Fighting inflation is a long game, and global central banks seem to be ...

2024-04-16 10:00:00 ET Summary China’s first-quarter 2024 GDP growth came in stronger than expected despite misses in retail sales and industrial production data as growth drivers shifted back toward investment. Investment was the key to 1Q24 GDP's outperformance, while las...

2024-04-13 06:56:17 ET Summary Bubbles can inflate for a long time, sustained by loose financial conditions and government rescues. Bubbles eventually burst - and they have this innate diabolical propensity to somehow catch the over-exposed masses by surprise, causing the greatest...