EVX News and Press, VanEck Vectors Environmental Services From 01/16/23

Summary Easing supply chain pressures are evident in supplier delivery times, which have been rising at a slower pace recently. Labor shortages did not ease much even as demand weakened. Weak demand conditions are likely to continue limiting companies' ability to sustain high wage g...

Summary Manufacturing accounts for 8% of US employment, 20% of capital investment, and 35% of annual US productivity growth. Projects supporting growth for semiconductor fabrication, electric vehicle and battery plants, data centers, and warehouse/distribution centers now account for ap...

VanEck Vectors Environmental Services ETF ( NYSEARCA: EVX ) - $0.5588 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.48% as of Dec. 22. Payable Dec 23; for shareholders of record Dec 20; ex-div Dec 19. For further details see: VanEck Vectors Environmental Services ETF declares annual distr...

Summary Global business conditions worsened in the penultimate month of the year according to the JPMorgan Global Composite PMI, compiled by S&P Global. New order expansions were seen in merely three of the 21 sectors tracked by the global PMI - software & services, pharmaceutic...

Summary Surging stocks show markets believe hopes of a soft landing by the Fed to be true. We disagree and stay underweight developed market (DM) stocks. U.S. stocks jumped and bond yields plunged after October CPI rose less than the market expected. But sticky core inflation keep...

Summary Do corporate earnings disappointments signal a weaker economy and easing inflation pressures, which could end this scary market—or are there more twists to come? When we look in detail at last week’s disappointing third-quarter reports from five of the bigges...

Summary Waste-related companies have been solid performers in the last two years. Republic Services features secular tailwinds, but there could near-term challenges. Despite a recent earnings beat, investors should be patient with this Industrials name. Trash stock...

Summary EVX is an ETF targeting a defensive corner of the market, namely environmental services players principally from the industrials and materials sectors. EVX has slightly outperformed IVV this year, with alpha also delivered since its inception in 2006. Though past perfo...

Summary I have said for weeks that the Fed needs to slow the pace of its tightening campaign. Powell apparently decided last week that the market was taking things too far. Corporate earnings are being released for the quarter and, so far, they aren’t that bad. It w...

Summary Resource equities continued to exhibit remarkable resiliency during the quarter, with the S&P Global Natural Resources Index outpacing global equities and global bonds over the 3-month period. Macroeconomic themes mostly continued to dominate all resource equity-relate...