EWA News and Press, iShares MSCI Australia Index Fund From 05/25/20

May saw another substantial fall in business activity across Australia, setting the scene for a deepening downturn in the economy during the second quarter. Even as lockdown measures were relaxed in mid-May, this only contributed to a minor easing of the rate of contraction in business activit...

Investment thesis: The international markets are still in a difficult situation but things are moving in the right direction. The China long ( FXI ) and Brazil short ( EWZ ) trades are still attractive. Chinese data is improving and tensions with the US are giving way to a bilateral pragmatism...

Introduction Investing in foreign stock markets like Australia’s ASX during a period of great worldwide economic uncertainty may seem like a very risky thing to do. It exposes you to both exchange rate risk as well as macroeconomic and regional risks. It is my intent with this artic...

Flash PMI data pointed to a collapse in business activity across Australia's private sector economy in April as lockdown measures designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 took their toll on demand, particularly for services. Consequently, workforce numbers were reduced sharply, contributing...

In chapter 3 of Peter Lynch's 1994 book Beating The Street , where he describes different types of funds, he writes "Many closed-end funds are more popularly known as country funds." Before many of the first single-country tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) launched in 1996, the easies...

Australia is the first of 11 nations rated "AAA" by S&P to have been put on negative outlook since the coronavirus outbreak. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund, Global news and forex, News on ET...

Introduction Twice a year I conduct a screen of North American indexes, international benchmarks, and a top-to-bottom assessment of the existing watchlist here at Contra the Heard Investment Newsletter . The COVID-19 Coronavirus has altered the investment landscape significantly with ma...

Investment thesis: International news is still mostly bad. The latest EU PMI data shows a service sector crash. Data from Japan also shows weakness, as do the latest South Korean releases. On the plus side, China was modestly higher this week but it's still too early to think about taking a ...

The new measures include A$66.4B Australian dollars ($38.5B) worth of support for households, businesses and workers. More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ETF, Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund, Global news and forex, News on ETFs, Rea...

Joining a rush by global central banks to pump cash into the economy, Australia cut rates for the second time in a month (to an all-time low of 0.25%) and made a historic foray into quantitative easing . More news on: iShares MSCI Australia ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Tr...