EELV News and Press, Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility From 12/29/20

Largely tied to the fate of the US dollar, the underperformance of emerging markets relative to their developed counterparts may finally be ending. A rising US dollar causes the domestic currency of emerging economies to fall and inflation to rise amid weaker economic growth. On a...

Global business cycles are closely interconnected. Global business cycles are closely synchronized. Global equity markets respond accordingly. For further details see: Investing In Foreign Markets Sounds Exciting - But Isn't Always

Despite a growing economic and technological decoupling between China and the West, the financial divide is actually shrinking. China's bond market - now the second largest in the world - has seen increased foreign participation, especially in its government bond market, where foreign...

By Laurent Saltiel, Sergey Davalchenko, & Naveen Jayasundaram Emerging market stocks are having a difficult time in the COVID-19 crisis, but not all industries - or countries - are struggling. And many businesses have the right qualities to benefit from structural changes now and long ...

Musings May’s risk-on environment baffled many (and again caused soul searching amongst dividend and value investors. How long can factors (which has proven to create alpha over long stretches of time) continue to lag the market? As John Maynard Keynes aptly phrased it, ȁ...

Musings Unless you are solely invested in Technology stocks, your portfolio is likely nothing but a sea of red this year (despite a bump off the lows in April). Basically everything is hurting (no shocker there), but that’s not what I’m focused on at the moment. I’m tryi...

( Picture Sourced Here ) Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - Investors began 2020 hoping for more of the same, as they celebrated one of the best years on record. Now, they would be grateful if this year would just end without another shattering rout that draws comparisons to the Great Depressi...

Musings Shorter update this month since life is too crazy to look backwards at the moment, plus I made a ton of trades to report (so no gory graphs demonstrating the pain I am sure that your portfolio dashboard is telling you). I don’t believe that any of the posted numbers (espec...

Musings January 2020 was a tough month for stocks but was especially tough for value and international (especially emerging markets). Source: S&P Dow Jones Source: S&P Dow Jones I hate to dwell on the ugly, but things were really ugly for domestic energy stocks as w...

Emerging markets ended 2019 on a high note, but can the momentum continue? Our emerging markets equity team weighs in, highlighting the market news and events it has an eye on. Three Things We're Thinking About Today Optimism surrounding the government's economic agenda has resulted in a...