EWJE News and Press, iShares MSCI Japan Equal Weighted ETF From 03/25/22

Preliminary PMI survey data showed only a modest impact from the Ukraine war on current economic growth in the world's largest developed economies in March. Business activity continued to grow strongly across the G4 developed economies of the US, eurozone, UK and Japan in March. G...

Preliminary PMI survey output indicators rose in Japan and Australia during March. Supply chain constraints and worsening price pressures have become more pronounced following the Ukraine crisis. Rising cost pressures and geopolitical uncertainty weighed on the business outlook am...

The global economy is facing an incredible amount of uncertainty at the moment which is continuing to drive the volatility we’re seeing in financial markets. Whether it’s uncertainty around inflation, interest rates, commodity prices, Covid or Ukraine, the growth outlook...

March PMI data will therefore be scrutinised for the impact of these events on various economic metrics such as output, supply chains, prices and upon the sole sentiment PMI sub-index - the future output index. Since the eruption of the Ukraine crisis on February 24, commodity prices ...

There are several high-frequency data points that often provide trading fodder for short-term participants, including US PPI, retail sales, industrial output, and housing starts. The individual projections for the Fed funds target rate draw the most attention. In December, five of...

It’s been another volatile week in financial markets with events in and around Ukraine continuing to dominate. This in turn creates huge uncertainty around the global economic outlook, with soaring commodity prices a massive downside risk for growth and upside risk for inflatio...

What is going on in Japan’s sovereign bond market and have JGBs awoken from their slumber? Japan faces even bigger questions around the persistency of inflation and whether the BOJ will move away from YCC. Between now and the spring of 2023, JGB volatility may be higher tha...

It’s been another week of significant volatility in financial markets, one in which European indices edged closer to bear market territory, oil prices hit a 10-year high around $120, and safe-haven gold came close to $2,000. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the severe sancti...

Worldwide manufacturing growth picked up in February after being subdued to a 1.5-year low in January due to the Omicron wave. The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI rose from a 15-month low of 53.2 in January to 53.6 in February in a sign that the global economy continued to show enco...

The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing PMI rose from a 15-month low of 53.2 in January to 53.6 in February. The relative weakness of February's global output growth by historical standards contrasted with a more robust expansion of order books recorded during the month. The reduction i...