EFA News and Press, iShares MSCI EAFE From 04/28/23

2023-04-28 04:13:40 ET Summary An overview of the debt ceiling impasse. A detailed breakdown of the liquidity implications that will come after the debt ceiling is resolved. A zoomed-out analysis of government debt, deficits, and interest expense more broadly. The po...

2023-04-25 15:06:09 ET Summary The Macro environment suggests that international equities could outperform US ones going forward. The EFA is a good way of getting exposure to developed economies outside the US. Select international stocks could perform even better moving forwa...

2023-04-24 18:54:00 ET Summary Since the beginning of 2022 though, international developed equities have outperformed the S&P 500 Index and over the last 12 months the MSCI EAFE Index return of 4.2% exceeds the S&P 500 Index return that is down -4.3%. Although U.S stocks h...

2023-04-22 02:25:00 ET Summary China’s GDP in the first quarter came in considerably stronger than expected, raising hopes for the global economy and equity markets. The economic rebound in the first quarter, at 4.5% y/y, was led by the domestic consumption and services sec...

2023-04-13 03:35:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 59.2 billion in March, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 82.7%. Fixed income and commodity-based ...

2023-04-11 13:18:35 ET Summary The Fed was quick to keep rates near zero when the pandemic struck. However, it made a mistake to see inflation as transitory and kept rates low for too long. As a result, the Fed needed to raise rates at an aggressive pace and magnitude to keep infl...

2023-04-10 11:30:00 ET Summary We upped our overweight of inflation-linked bonds in March to quickly take advantage of the market pricing lower inflation - our new playbook in action. Bond yields rose after data showed a still-tight U.S. labor market. We think that keeps inflation...

2023-04-05 02:22:00 ET Summary Earnings expectations have weakened this year; however, we still expect lower earnings per share growth than consensus expectations. Profit margin changes are a key driver of earnings growth. We expect further margin weakness ahead. Our weak earn...

2023-04-03 14:14:00 ET Summary Expectations coming into the year were that rates would peak in the spring at around 5% and then fall in the second half of the year to about 4.5%. Real estate stocks rebounded last week to cut their losses for the month to less than 2%. The asset cl...

2023-04-02 07:04:09 ET Summary Increasing allocation to SPY. EFA still bullish. Small caps back to bearish alignment. In this month’s article I outline why I am changing my allocation to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) to 50% while maintaining my exposure of ...