EFA News and Press, iShares MSCI EAFE From 10/22/21

Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha, iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. Ad-Mageddon Shares of Snap (SNAP) tumbled around 20% AH on Thursday following results that some are referring to as "ad-mageddon." The long-feared internet...

Real estate earnings season kicks off this week. We'll see results from more than 175 equity REITs, 40 mortgage REITs, and dozens of housing industry companies over the next month. REITs enter third-quarter earnings season as the second-best-performing asset class this year with total...

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Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha, iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. BTC-ETF The crypto industry is celebrating a long-awaited milestone today as the first exchange-traded fund linked to Bitcoin (BTC-USD) launches on the New...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold up to $5M in a broad index fund as the economy was recovering from the pandemic last year. In disclosure to the U.S Office Government Ethics, Powell notes a sale from the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (NYSEARCA:VTI) of between $1M and $5M i...

As public debt rises to record levels, countries need to calibrate fiscal policies to their own unique circumstances. With the pandemic, global debt in 2020 jumped by 14 percent to a record high $226 trillion. This figure includes both public and nonfinancial private sector debt. ...

Market sentiment has deteriorated since earlier this year amid still elevated financial vulnerabilities and mounting concerns about risks to inflation. Amid the prolonged and painful pandemic, risks to global financial stability have remained contained - so far. To an unprecedente...

The global recovery continues but momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. Compared to our July forecast, the global growth projection for 2021 has been revised down marginally to 5.9 percent and is unchanged for 2022 at 4.9 percent. The dangerous divergence in economic pro...

U.S. equity markets bounced back following the worst week since February as relief over a last-minute compromise to raise the debt ceiling offset disappointment over another weaker-than-expected employment report. After flirting with "correction territory" earlier in the week, the S&a...

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in September for the Global Market Index (GMI), an unmanaged, market-value-weighted portfolio that holds all the major asset classes (except cash). GMI’s 0.97 Sharpe ratio is close to the highest levels reached in recent history. ...