EWA News and Press, iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund From 02/06/20

Musings January 2020 was a tough month for stocks but was especially tough for value and international (especially emerging markets). Source: S&P Dow Jones Source: S&P Dow Jones I hate to dwell on the ugly, but things were really ugly for domestic energy stocks as w...

(1/31/19 2019-nCoV Global Confirmed Cases - John Hopkins University ) As the Coronavirus spreads from China to the rest of the globe and markets are selling off, many investors are asking themselves whether it is a buying or selling opportunity. If it's a buying opportunity, which assets ar...

By James Knightley, Chief International Economist ; Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist ; James Smith, Developed Markets Economist ; Iris Pang, Economist ; Rob Carnell, Chief Economist, Head of Research ; Charlotte de Montpellier, Economist Discover what ING's e...

Introduction One of the first subscribers of Macro Trading Factory ("MTF") has approached me a day or two after we've published the initial allocations for the Funds Macro Portfolio ("FMP"), expressing his surprise that we have very little exposure to bonds on the portfolio. Valid questi...

Killing 25 people and leaving thousands homeless, Australia's huge bushfires have already burned through more than 25.5M acres of land and the economic costs are adding up. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equi...

Musings After my healthy 5% ‘alpha’ victory in 2018, 2019’s everlasting bull run was hard for my conservative portfolio to match as large cap growth stocks (which drive the S&P 500 these days) blew the doors off (+31.5%) with their best performance since 2013....

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. During my review last year of the Australian economy, I was not entirely optimistic, but I did see some bright spots that could have warranted an...

Low inflation has certainly been one of the key themes of the past decade , which is interlinked with lower interest rates, prolonged global central bank easing, and ever higher stock markets. Commodities being mired in a long-term downtrend collectively has been one of the main contributors ...

Similar to the U.S. golf team which has been dominating the international team with a 20-year winning streak in the Presidents Cup , the U.S. stock market, based on the S&P 500 ( SPY ) as the benchmark, has likewise outperformed the rest of the world almost year after year since 2000. Ind...

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...