EEMA News and Press, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia Index Fund From 07/07/21

Big upside inflation surprises in Turkey and parts of LATAM co-exist with moderating inflation in EM Asia. China’s economic surprises keep decoupling from the rest of EM. From the market’s perspective, a key question is whether EM’s big inflation divide will reinf...

The global economy expanded at a solid rate again in June, according to the JPMorgan Global PMI™ (compiled by IHS Markit). The latest global expansion was again led by the service sector, which outperformed manufacturing for a third successive month despite the rate of increase...

As the world convalesced from the pandemic, stocks advanced in the second quarter and earnings rebounded across sectors. With business gains broadening amid complex market risks, we think investors should lean on quality to find stocks that will perform well in a normalizing world eco...

With the economic recovery undeniably ramping up, we ask managers for their thoughts on valuations in the markets. While lockdowns were protracted affairs for so many of us, the economic recovery has been astoundingly rapid in many parts of the world. Regardless of the shift in to...

The global economy has reached an important milestone in the second quarter of 2021, surpassing the pre-pandemic real GDP peak attained in the fourth quarter of 2019. After a 3.5% contraction in 2020, global real GDP is projected to increase 6.0% in 2021, its strongest advance since 1...

Growth in emerging Asia is likely to remain uneven amid a slow vaccine rollout, pushing out our expectations for a full recovery into 2022. The main bottleneck, in our view, is the limited supply of vaccine doses. We expect uneven economic performance across EM Asia in 2021 and ha...

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF (EEMA) - $0.1223.30-Day SEC Yield of 0.99% as of May 28.Payable Jun 16; for shareholders of record Jun 11; ex-div Jun 10. For further details see: iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF declares semi-annual distribution of $0.1223

Emerging markets are still expected to lead the global economic recovery, with forecasted 2021 GDP growth of 6.7% vs. 6.4% for the United States. EM equities rose in May and outpaced developed market stocks. We believe that EMs will continue to show resilience with many countries ...

Tourism, air travel, those kind of sectors, which can be quite important to EM, is something where the recovery will be late this year or into 2022. By region Asia leading in terms of the emerging market recovery followed by Europe, followed by Latin America. We've emphasized in o...

The markets have turned less bullish with ebbing momentum, but emerging markets are a higher risk category. Despite a new wave of virus infections, both monetary and fiscal policy options have narrowed in emerging markets. VWO's performance has been disappointing compared to peers...