ECNS News and Press, iShares MSCI China Small-Cap From 01/17/24

2024-01-17 15:00:00 ET Summary The biggest surprise of the past two years has been a 500-plus basis point increase in interest rates without a recession. Pockets of traditional commercial real estate are facing significant uncertainty, particularly older office buildings, which ha...

2024-01-17 12:55:00 ET Summary Groundbreaking technological advancements, mega-pop stars being blamed for summertime inflation, and a December Fed pivot were just a few of the plot twists for 2023. US GDP growth sequentially accelerated all year and continually outpaced expectatio...

2024-01-17 01:30:00 ET Summary Taiwan: Voters chose a return to the status quo, which could help reduce tensions with China. Japan: An improving macro environment led to a new high for the Nikkei 225 Index. China: Disappointing consumer and producer price data raised concerns ...

2024-01-16 20:56:00 ET Summary Emerging markets will also be looking closely at economic conditions in mainland China, which will be a key determinant of broader emerging market growth in 2024. A key reason for diverging emerging and developed market performance was the marked var...

2024-01-15 12:40:00 ET Summary All decisions around investing, everything we're seeing everyone doing is now colored by the rate situation. Artificial intelligence is a constantly growing and transforming phenomenon. Unlike artificial intelligence, a lot of the most exciting a...

2024-01-11 03:41:00 ET Summary Economic growth is now cooling as global monetary tightening gradually takes its toll. Most central bankers have now adopted a more dovish stance, and rate cuts are likely in 2024. Rate cuts failing to materialize may drive extended U.S. Treasury...

2024-01-09 22:45:00 ET Summary Emerging markets (EMs) have regained their footing in 2023, but the recovery from October 2022 lows has been anything but uniform across individual markets. As a new EM cycle unfolds, we expect that the heterogeneous dynamics and secular themes that ...

2024-01-09 03:30:00 ET Summary The basic materials sector continued to record the sharpest downturn in goods trade according to more detailed sub-sector data. Measured across both goods and services, trade deteriorated across all the top 10 economies with the exception of India. ...

2024-01-08 21:20:00 ET Summary Drivers for emerging markets in 2024 include a potential recovery in earnings growth, the likelihood of a US soft landing, and evidence that interest rates have peaked. In 2024, more than four billion people will take part in elections, starting with...

2024-01-08 18:50:00 ET Summary No economist’s work is more germane to Issues 2024 than the brilliant Minsky. The hedge fund industry had surpassed $500 billion by 2001, up from about $35 billion to begin the nineties. Global markets wasted no time signaling 2024 liquidi...