ECNS News and Press, iShares MSCI China Small-Cap From 05/23/24

2024-05-23 03:20:00 ET Summary Trade wars are in the headlines again, with the US imposing new tariffs on an array of Chinese products. Tariffs change the relative cost of products, which influences supply and demand and can have a big effect on a business. Equity investors wi...

2024-05-22 12:30:00 ET Summary Recent data indicates the US economy has been cooling modestly and disinflationary progress has resumed, which should help hasten the start of rate cuts. There is a significant amount of cash that is likely to start moving to stock and bonds once the...

2024-05-20 10:50:00 ET Summary Whatever traders and investors were focused on last week, the result was a drop in interest rates across the curve, with the 10-year Treasury yield dropping by about 8 basis points. Over the last month, with the 10-year yield down a little over 16 ba...

2024-05-20 09:35:00 ET Summary American consumers, often seen as a bellwether for the global economy - have been largely resilient and healthy despite sticky inflation and higher interest rates. Can this resilience continue as difficult market conditions persist? At a high lev...

2024-05-20 05:47:00 ET Summary With a 3.9% unemployment rate and still 8.5 million job openings, what is the probability of ongoing elevated wage gains perpetuating second-round inflationary effects (especially in rents and housing)? The fundamental predicament today is Monetary D...

2024-05-16 12:30:00 ET Summary The move shows central banks aren’t waiting for the Federal Reserve to cut rates, and it indicates confidence that the European Central Bank will cut in June. The Eurozone Services Purchasing Managers’ Index hit an 11-month high in Apri...

2024-05-14 10:10:00 ET Summary Demographic trends are elevating entitlement spending, and higher spending on infrastructure and other pandemic-era priorities has kept overall government outlays above pre-pandemic levels. Incremental deficit change is what influences growth rates, ...

2024-05-14 03:20:00 ET Summary The worldwide PMI surveys compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence indicated that global trade expanded at the start of the second quarter of 2024. The seasonally adjusted Global PMI New Export Orders Index posted 50.6 in April, up from 49.8 in...

2024-05-14 00:55:00 ET Summary Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari issued an essay saying that the recent inflation data raise questions about whether their monetary policy is restrictive enough to fully return price growth to the central bank’s 2% target rate. Kashkari...

2024-05-10 09:30:00 ET Summary Emerging market economic growth was sustained at a solid rate at the start of the second quarter of 2024. Cost pressures intensified for emerging market firms as average input prices rose at a faster rate. Of the four major emerging market econom...