DFJ News and Press, WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Fund From 06/21/24

2024-06-21 05:30:00 ET Summary The real GDP growth forecasts for 2024 have been lowered in a few major economies, including the US, Canada, Brazil and Japan. We continue to expect a gradual downward trend in global consumer price index inflation in 2024-26, driven by a moder...

2024-06-14 08:40:00 ET Summary Japan has been struggling for some time to generate enough velocity in inflation to escape the gravitational pull of deflation. The story for the rest of 2024 and into 2025 is now centered on whether inflation will be sustained at the BOJ’s 2%...

2024-06-10 23:34:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2024-06-08 05:05:00 ET Summary The ECB and Bank of Canada cut rates this week, with markets seeing the global central bank community's easing cycle now underway. Booming markets have a way of disregarding corrosive fundamental factors. Especially in today's backdrop, there are com...

2024-06-07 10:15:00 ET Summary In March, the Bank of Japan abolished its 8-year-old negative interest rate policy, hiking rates for the first time in 17 years by raising its benchmark rate to 0-0.1%. To combat inflation while also avoiding an excessive surge in interest payments, ...

2024-06-06 06:40:00 ET Summary Average prices charged for goods and services rose worldwide at a slightly increased rate in May, reflecting persistently elevated services price increases combined with accelerating price growth in manufacturing. Worldwide PMI survey data compiled b...

2024-06-05 09:40:00 ET Summary At 50.9, the Global Manufacturing PMI recorded above 50.0 neutral mark for a fourth straight month in April. The latest data signalled an ongoing steady improvement of the global manufacturing economy so far in 2024 after almost one and a half years ...

2024-06-04 04:30:00 ET Summary Taiwan has clearly established its dominance in semiconductor manufacturing, particularly in logic chips. As the AI revolution increasingly demands advanced systems capable of storing vast amounts of data, South Korea has fortified its position in th...

2024-06-01 09:36:29 ET Summary DFJ has a lower PBR than the broader large-cap driven Japanese indices. With corporate governance reform being an important factor for the market's appreciation, and similar distributions of sectoral exposures to large cap indices, small cap has more...

2024-06-01 05:55:46 ET Summary Markets for the most part corroborated the "higher for longer" and rising global yields thesis. The Nasdaq 100 declined 0.7% Wednesday in bearish trading action, as the Semiconductors slumped 1.9%. The yen has ominously little to show for the mon...