EWT News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Taiwan From 06/22/21

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...

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 ...

In this note, we look at the several headwinds that appear to have contributed to the recent underperformance along with the positive factors underlying these markets. The most obvious headwind to Asian markets this year has been the correction in technology. Another potential hea...

While recovery in economic growth could remain muted this year in many markets, we expect more normalization in 2022. EM equities rebounded in April but trailed their DM counterparts. Emerging Asian equities rose in April. Among the top regional markets were Taiwan, South Korea an...

BlackRock’s premier Taiwan-focused ETF continues to reap the rewards of the growing chip crisis. The fund covering a wide range of mid-to-large tier businesses has capitalized on the increased dependency of micro-electronics in all consumer goods. Since my last post, EWT ha...

Red across the board is what market participants witness throughout the financial markets as all eleven sectors are trading to the downside. Furthermore, the (VIX) has popped above the 22 handle on Tuesday, and investors have not seen levels this high since back at the end of March.Inflation ...

Taiwan is in the unique position of having actually recorded a slight strengthening in GDP growth in 2020 compared with 2019, despite the severe global recession caused by the Covid-19pandemic. The pandemic-driven surge in global electronics demand was a key factor underpinning Taiwan...

After a decent start, emerging markets have lagged behind developed markets. Emerging markets don't necessarily correspond to neat value vs. growth or cyclical vs. defensive narratives. The best environment for emerging market economies is one of synchronized global growth. ...

Global manufacturing output growth hits 11-year high, but record supply delays lead to production constraints. Backlogs of work rise at steepest rate for 17 years. Input costs rise at fastest rate for decade, lead to record factory gate price increase. For further details se...