EWM News and Press, iShares MSCI Malaysia Index Fund From 02/17/23

Summary The pace of Malaysian economic growth is expected to moderate significantly in 2023 due to a number of headwinds, including the impact of high base year effects and slowing export growth. During 2022, an important positive factor for the Malaysian manufacturing sector was the st...

Summary The energy sector has been red-hot for much of the past year, but there are still pockets in this corner that remain battered, at least in relative terms. There are no guarantees that the so-called value premium, no matter the definition, will generate superior performance anyti...

Summary Americas equities, ETPs, corporate bonds, and government bonds all outperformed when compared with previous six-month periods. Corporate bonds continued their impressive run throughout the second half of 2022 increasing revenues over each quarter. 2022 was an outstanding yea...

Summary We expect COVID-19 to continue its transition to a global endemic and the status quo to prevail in Russia's war in Ukraine, with no material implications for the global economy. Mild recessions are forecast in the United States and Europe, but resilience in Asia Pacific will pre...

Summary ASEAN manufacturers continued to experience a slowdown at the end of 2022, with December's PMI data indicating the softest output expansion in 15 months. One unsurprising development with the slowing of demand for manufactured goods had been the abating of price pressures, which...

Summary Against the challenging environment and increasingly dimming economy globally in 2022, Southeast Asian countries represent a rare part of the world that have delivered impressive resilience. The heavier exposure to value-driven sectors also leads the FTSE ASEAN Index to deliver ...

Summary Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) power sector will peak in 2029 in the current forecast. In September 2021, the Indian central regulator published the draft deviation settlement mechanism (DSM) regulations, which propos...

Summary The Kikeh field was the first deepwater development in Malaysia which was discovered in 2003 and commenced production in 2007. Finding and testing new plays comes with certain risks and uncertainties but can be value accretive if proven successful. A gas-focused develo...

Summary Key drivers for rising FDI inflows into Southeast Asia include diversification of manufacturing supply chains by multinationals, as well as new investments to tap rapidly growing consumer markets in ASEAN. In the near-term, FDI inflows to the ASEAN region are also expected...

Summary Europe's quest for LNG to replace Russian pipeline gas will continue to prop international LNG prices until significant tranches of new supply can be brought onstream by 2025-26. To replace sharply declining Russian piped gas supply, European gas buyers are turning to LNG ...