EWA News and Press, iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund From 02/09/24

2024-02-09 12:30:00 ET Summary While the China macro story of ongoing transition is a headwind to the rest of Asia, there is more to the region's economic health than this. We see some glimmers of stronger export and production activity together with a more benign inflation backdr...

2024-02-07 19:18:00 ET Summary Global output growth accelerated for a third straight month in January, according to the S&P Global PMI surveys. Financial services reported by far the strongest expansion of the major industries tracked by the global PMI, fueled in turn by resur...

2024-02-06 02:53:40 ET Australia's central bank held interest rates steady on Tuesday as expected, but warned that a further interest rate hike is possible due to persistently high inflation. The Reserve Bank of Australia kept its cash rates unchanged at 4.35% during its fi...

2024-02-05 01:48:52 ET Australia's trade surplus on goods declined to A$10.96 billion in December 2023 from an upwardly revised A$11.76 billion in the previous month, compared to market forecasts of A$11 billion, as exports grew less than imports. Shipments increased by 1.8% fro...

2024-02-02 02:16:55 ET Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Australia’s ASX 200 hits an all-time high as producer inflation eases to 0.9% in Q4

2024-02-01 02:55:36 ET More on Australia: Australia services PMI contracts to 47.9, composite PMI drops to 10-month low in October Australia Q3 producer inflation advanced by 1.8% Q/Q amid higher prices RBA keeps interest rate on hold at 4.10% in October ...

2024-01-31 04:27:00 ET Summary A further large fall in Australian inflation will encourage thoughts of earlier and perhaps more aggressive easing by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) this year. The good news on inflation might be less frequent from now on, and this might not be ...

2024-01-31 02:29:49 ET Australia services PMI contracts to 47.9, composite PMI drops to 10-month low in October Australia Q3 producer inflation advanced by 1.8% Q/Q amid higher prices RBA keeps interest rate on hold at 4.10% in October Australia's man...

2024-01-26 02:00:35 ET Summary Stocks in Australia have been trading in the same range since 2020, but a breakout upwards is overdue. Bond yields have been rising in line with central bank interest rates, presenting an opportunity to buy bonds at par value with yields upwards of 4...

2024-01-25 00:19:00 ET Summary The fourth quarter of 2023 was a more favorable environment for active managers in the UK, Europe, Emerging Markets, U.S. Small Cap and Listed Infrastructure, while being more challenging for U.S. Large Cap, Global, Global ex-U.S., Japan, Australia, Cana...