EWT News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Taiwan From 02/12/22

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...

The Winter Olympics have begun in China, and, as promised, the Chinese government has introduced its digital version of the Yuan, the e-CYN, to the world. The world is moving more and more into its digital future, and we are going to see many additional attempts to move the technology...

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 2.5% in US-dollar terms last year. In contrast, the MSCI World Index gained 18.5%, helped by strong US returns. China’s 2021 woes stemmed from a combination of shrinking credit availability, acute debt in the property sector and restrictive ...

In Q1, we expect a moderate inertial growth in EWT supported by last year's strong readings. Many growth factors that dominated in 2021 will weaken this year, which, combined with the high base effect, could lead to a fall in the index in Q2. At the moment, we recommend holding lo...

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...

China is accelerating efforts to achieve Common Prosperity and implementing other policy initiatives aimed at sustainable growth. We expect 2022 to be a year of rebalancing in the Chinese economy as the government looks to find a balance between supporting economic growth and accelera...

The global central bank community has been wrong on inflation. Euro zone inflation rose to a new record high last month, defying expectations for a big drop and piling pressure on the European Central Bank to finally admit that price growth is not as temporary and benign as it has lon...

It’s been an incredible couple of weeks in the markets, one in which we’ve seen another hawkish move from multiple central banks, big swings in stocks on the back of earnings, and tensions around Ukraine intensify. Traders will be paying very close attention to incoming ...

Tightened restrictions to fight the Omicron wave have led to a renewed decline in manufacturing production in mainland China, with demand also weakening - notably from export markets. Manufacturing production in mainland China fell in January, according to PMI survey data produced for...

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...