EEM News and Press, iShares MSCI Emerging Index Fund From 01/02/23

Summary A table with the drifts of SDS and 21 other leveraged ETFs. Biotechnology leveraged ETFs have the worst monthly decay. The annual decay of SDS is close to zero on average, but it may be harmful for long periods of time. The ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 ETF ( ...

Summary US stocks, large and small, led markets to the downside to cap off 2022. An early-month rally in bonds swiftly faded as rates rose into year-end. All eyes will be on the upcoming corporate earnings season, while foreign equities sport compelling valuations. It wa...

Summary Templeton Emerging Markets Fund is an EM equity closed-end fund. Chinese equities make up around 27% of the fund, followed by South Korea and Taiwan at 17% and 14%, respectively. The fund focuses on large capitalization stocks. The fund is trading with an -11% discount t...

Summary Emerging markets have had a poor year so far as equities have returned -20% YTD. Emerging market equities trade at 11.5x forward earnings, which is attractive given the industry composition of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Most emerging market funds provide concentrated e...

Summary There were ample causes for this global downdraft in equity markets. Global equity markets look likely to face a global recession in 2023, which appears to have already begun in the final quarter of 2022. Equity markets will face a tough global environment in 2023, particula...

Summary Somewhere along the way toward the liberation of the self-directed investor, some interference arose. Specifically, the S&P 500 Index became everyone's benchmark, or so it seems. If an investor is willing to see their portfolio swing 40% or more in either direction in a ...

Summary Inflation and central bank policy will likely continue being key focus points for investors. 2023 may not see a repeat of the frantic Federal Reserve activity that characterized 2022, but policy rates almost certainly still have further to rise. While 2023, with its challeng...

Summary Return divergences were largely an outgrowth of the collapse in resource stocks. Amid the extreme risk-on/risk-off swings in sentiment spurred by the pandemic and Russia/Ukraine war, industry performances have been as polarized as they've ever been in a decade. The turbulent...

Summary China’s inflection point began with the easing of access to credit in the property sector in October 2022. If the International Monetary Fund’s forecasts for resilient EM economic growth in 2023 prove to be correct, this should have a positive effect on revenue tre...

Summary Amid the crosscurrents, two themes have prevailed during the post-pandemic years, which lend some perspective to the macroeconomic roadmap ahead: namely, the bipolar swings in macro policy and the forces of economic normalization. After one of the worst years for fixed income as...