EWJV News and Press, iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF From 02/25/22

It’s been another week of significant volatility in financial markets and there’s little reason to expect next week will be any different. The tragic events in Ukraine will continue to have a big impact on the markets in the coming weeks as it becomes clear what Vladimir...

Inflation is money, therefore a true central bank should be able to judge whether or not there is too much. If there is, inflation’s going to be coming unless some intervention in the real money system. Instead, policymakers attempt to reverse-engineer their way into the inflat...

APAC economies Japan and Australia saw their paths diverge amid mixed COVID-19 Omicron developments. It was also observed that with the COVID-19 wave, the pressure upon prices shifted from input costs to output prices. Business sentiment amongst Japan and Australia private sector ...

Future output expectations slumped on the supply chain deterioration. Concerns over the supply situation and escalating price pressures prompted the additional buying of safety stocks where possible. The record inventory building supports the view that firms are gearing up for fre...

EWJV invests in Japanese stocks that trade at relatively low valuations. While the underlying return on equity in EWJV's portfolio is not high, current valuations are very low. The implied cost of equity could be 12%, possibly more, which is likely far too high for a developed-wor...

There’s been no shortage of volatility in the markets so far this year and it doesn’t look like that is going to change any time soon. The focus has shifted slightly in recent weeks from monetary policy to geopolitics as Russian troops have built up on the Ukrainian bord...

Inflation and interest rates have been at the forefront of investors’ minds so far this year and that’s unlikely to change for some time yet. Earnings season provided a welcome and timely distraction and enabled markets to find some stability but as we saw towards the en...

Major central bank policies are diverging. Elevated exchange rate volatility may reflect the intensifying divergences. The U.S. Federal Reserve has provided guidance that it expects to end its asset purchases by March 2022, and then commence the process of increasing short-term intere...

Just as global economic growth slowed to an 18-month low at the start of 2022 amid rising COVID-19 infection rates, price pressures intensified. Rising inflation is also broad-based geographically. Growth will likely accelerate again globally once the worst of the Omicron wave pas...

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 ...