EWA News and Press, iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund From 06/05/19

The purpose of this article is to assess the macro-fiscal flows for Australia and determine what effect these flows will have on the stock market and the economy. Three macro flows influence the markets and economy, and these are national government spending, the current account, and bank cr...

Musings May was a particularly weird month in a weird period for the markets (though I suppose that could be said about most times). The furious rally from the December 2018 lows (spurred by the narratives of a cool-headed Fed and Administration) fizzled spectacularly against the realities...

Overview The Federal Reserve's patience never excluded a rate cut, should conditions warrant. The acknowledgment of this without signaling a change in its stance is being seized to justify aggressive pricing of rates. At the same time, there has some tempering of trade anxiety on the margin ...

Overview The global capital markets are stabilizing today after taking a body blow of broadening the use of US tariffs (in migration dispute with Mexico), threatening the ratification of NAFTA 2.0, still-escalating hostile rhetoric between the US and China, and the threat of anti-trust actio...

Australia overnight lowered its key cash rate to a record low of 1.25%, marking the first cut in almost three years and the latest in a swing by central banks around the world toward looser monetary policies. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dol...

On a special podcast edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Research Analyst Brian Yadao discussed the escalating U.S.-China trade war, flash Purchasing Managers' Index ((PMI)) numbers for May and the potential for changes to monetary policy in Au...

Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D. ©All Rights Reserved Introduction In Part 1 of this two-part series, I suggested that the largest countries measured by GDP, population, and geographic area would be the primary drivers of global futures. Here, I look at their military and economic dimensi...

Australia's central bank will consider the case for lower interest rates at its June policy meeting as the country fights to go 28 years without a recession. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund, News o...

Overview: Encouraged by the election results, investors bid up Indian and Australian currencies and equities. Japan offered a pleasant surprise by reporting the world's third-largest economy expanded in Q1. Most other equity markets in Asia fell, and European stocks have the week with small ...

Country-specific exchange-traded funds are a great way for investors to take a position on local market equity return factors. While many of the world's largest foreign companies trade on U.S. exchanges as ADRs (American Depository Receipts), country-specific ETFs often provide investors uniqu...