EWT News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Taiwan From 02/02/22

With the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022 Winter Olympics dampening the economic development, mainland China's GDP growth in the fourth quarter 2021 was 4%. The National Bureau of Statistics said mainland China's GDP grew 8.1% in 2021, partly owing to the low base growth of o...

China is trying to reignite its growth engines - but can authorities do it with small and privately owned companies lagging behind? Going by January’s domestic activity gauges, China’s large corporates did relatively well - the respective PMI rose for the second month in...

After years of raising funds through bond issuance to yield-desperate buyers, Chinese property developers are heavily indebted, and since last summer, many have been defaulting on payments to bondholders. Responding to weakness in the domestic economy, the Chinese central bank reverse...

There are several reasons to be constructive about emerging markets (EMs) heading into 2022. Across EMs, positive structural forces remain apparent and are likely to foster fresh investment opportunities. Certain risks could change our overall EM outlook, although they are not in ...

After reviewing the current year to gain a perspective for 2022, this article summarises the outlook for the dollar, the euro, and their financial systems. And finally, we look at silver, which is set to become the star performer against fiat currencies, driven by a combination of poo...

EWH is not as cost-efficient as its peer FLHK. The domestic landscape in Hong Kong isn’t the most comforting. The risk reward on the charts looks decent, but there are other regions in Asia that offer better value, better earnings potential, and better yields. For fur...

The most hyped China narrative - common prosperity means government taking money from private entrepreneurs and businesses. Ant Financial deploys very high leverage and predatory lending, mixed payment with lending businesses with no financial regulations. VIE Chinese firms will f...

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...

Given the broad strength of the US economy and elevated price pressures, the low yields once again defy economists' expectations. There were around $13.7 trillion of negative-yielding bonds in the world at the end of last week, the most in four months. Most emerging market currencies ...

We have factored a slowing growth outlook into our Chinese assumptions for many years now. China’s efforts to deal with leverage via its recent series of regulatory moves directly affects just 0.5% of the country’s total credit market. China still has the option of s...