EWJV News and Press, iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF From 02/07/22

Stocks and bonds sold off in January as markets repriced for a more aggressive pace of central bank tightening and increased pressures on the global earnings recovery. Tech and other pricey high-growth stocks tend to underperform in periods of rising interest rates. Value returns ...

The global central bank community has been wrong on inflation. Euro zone inflation rose to a new record high last month, defying expectations for a big drop and piling pressure on the European Central Bank to finally admit that price growth is not as temporary and benign as it has lon...

It’s been an incredible couple of weeks in the markets, one in which we’ve seen another hawkish move from multiple central banks, big swings in stocks on the back of earnings, and tensions around Ukraine intensify. Traders will be paying very close attention to incoming ...

When considering portfolio allocation, it’s important to keep in mind the wide dispersion of returns among economies. Inflation in Japan has remained persistently tame, and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to continue its 10th consecutive year of an ultra-easy policy stance....

The stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. The recent stock market volatility is reinforcing the idea that the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance regarding hiking i...

Inflation and supply chain headwinds are expected to ease as the year progresses. And reopening trade will present select opportunities. Transitory inflation is lasting longer than anticipated, but we believe that inflation will moderate through 2022. 2022 will be a year of change...

Upcoming rate hikes could drive an increase in hedging costs for Japanese investors, redirecting flows into unconventional assets and regions. Hedged yield pickup is naturally governed by the relationship of the spot and forward FX rates, which in turn are driven primarily by short-te...

The Fed is done with speaking appearances for the year, so thin trading conditions should settle in once we get past Thursday’s economic data. The European central bank is poised to end new purchases under PEPP in March at which point the APP will be doubled before being pared ...

This week, central banks are responding to political pressure around price inflation with accelerated monetary tightening plans. The Bank of Canada ended its bond-buying program in October. The era of central bank worship is moving toward its predictable end. For further det...

December's preliminary PMI numbers provided a more solemn note to end the year. Growth momentum across the world's largest developed economies revealed to have eased in the final month of the year. The latest COVID-19 Omicron variant developments add further downside risks to the ...