EWM News and Press, iShares MSCI Malaysia Index Fund From 07/10/21

Once a quarter, I conduct a review of market valuations around the globe. Turkey is currently the cheapest market in the world by many measures. Turkey is cheap for many social, geopolitical, and economic reasons, including inflation, currency depreciation, and questionable centra...

As the world convalesced from the pandemic, stocks advanced in the second quarter and earnings rebounded across sectors. With business gains broadening amid complex market risks, we think investors should lean on quality to find stocks that will perform well in a normalizing world eco...

Although global manufacturing output growth ran at one of the fastest rates seen for over a decade in June, capacity constraints continued to develop, reflecting a lack of labour and a record worsening of supplier delivery times. The shortfall of payroll numbers to new orders was espe...

The global economy has reached an important milestone in the second quarter of 2021, surpassing the pre-pandemic real GDP peak attained in the fourth quarter of 2019. After a 3.5% contraction in 2020, global real GDP is projected to increase 6.0% in 2021, its strongest advance since 1...

Growth in emerging Asia is likely to remain uneven amid a slow vaccine rollout, pushing out our expectations for a full recovery into 2022. The main bottleneck, in our view, is the limited supply of vaccine doses. We expect uneven economic performance across EM Asia in 2021 and ha...

iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF (EWM) - $0.8410.30-Day SEC Yield of 3.17% as of May 28.Payable Jun 16; for shareholders of record Jun 11; ex-div Jun 10. For further details see: iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF declares semi-annual distribution of $0.8410

Emerging markets are still expected to lead the global economic recovery, with forecasted 2021 GDP growth of 6.7% vs. 6.4% for the United States. EM equities rose in May and outpaced developed market stocks. We believe that EMs will continue to show resilience with many countries ...

The markets have turned less bullish with ebbing momentum, but emerging markets are a higher risk category. Despite a new wave of virus infections, both monetary and fiscal policy options have narrowed in emerging markets. VWO's performance has been disappointing compared to peers...

First-quarter economic data suggest the longer-term global outlook and recovery will be anything but linear. A fiscally fueled expansion is pretty well-established, but it's uneven across regions. There's ongoing tension between fiscal stimulus and vaccination programmes. Fo...

Malaysian equities look more attractive than U.S. equities from a valuation standpoint. However, EWM (a Malaysia-focused ETF) is heavily exposed to the local Financials sector. This heavy exposure makes the fund exciting from a cyclical standpoint, considering that China is furthe...