EWA News and Press, iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund From 12/11/19

By Andrew Pease Signs point to a mini-cycle recovery in 2020, with central bank easing in particular helping to stave off short-term recession fears. Hold the epitaphs: this aging cycle seems likely to last beyond 2020. This time last year, it appeared that U.S. Federal Reserve (Fe...

Musings Staying in the game is critical for anyone lacking a crystal ball who can anticipate the twists and turns of the markets. I won't go on a long rant about potential for self-inflicted damage that aggressive market timing brings most who attempt it… but suffice it to say that ...

European stock markets rallied sharply across the board since the beginning of quarter, as Fed and ECB's monetary easing policies along with U.S.-China trade optimism were able to offset deteriorating economic data. DAX made multi-year highs while the broader Euro Stoxx 600 index surged to jus...

In this article we will review the latest economic data from Australia and asses the outlook for the Australian economy and associated implications as it may pertain to the listed country exchange traded fund - (NYSE: EWA ) The Australian Bureau of Statistics ((ABS)) recently published emp...

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the iShares MSCI Australia ETF ( EWA ) as an investment option at its current market price. While I have not covered broad Australian-focused funds before, I have written about the Australian banking sector for years, often recommending ...

Musings October was especially nice for home gamers like myself (record market highs AND many online brokerages eliminating stock trading fees). I was certainly busy with a month of repositioning my portfolio to skew even more conservatively amidst the new price highs (but yawn-worthy econ...

Overview The prospects that the US-China deal could include some rolling back of existing US tariffs helped underpin risk appetites. After new record highs in the US S&P 500 and Nasdaq, Asia-Pacific markets marched higher, and the MSCI Asia Pacific reached its highest level since August ...

Introduction Last month I wrote about why investors should consider investing in a global equity index (such as the VT ETF). In summary, I said that global investing provides exposure to different, not perfectly correlated economies. So if you don’t have any reason to believe that a...

Investment Thesis Latency arbitrage is based on a lead-lag relationship between a "faster" market/instrument and a "slower" market/instrument. I will investigate whether such a relationship exists between some APAC markets, and their relevant ETFs in the US market. It is possible to use th...

By Robert Carnell, Chief Economist Head of Research, Asia-Pacific , Francesco Pesole, FX Strategist and Petr Krpata, Chief EMEA FX and IR Strategist Speculation that the Reserve Bank of Australia may embark on quantitative easing is growing, although we see no crisis to war...