EWT News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Taiwan From 04/22/22

The nature of the economic cycle, originally due to the COVID pandemic, has been amplified. The ongoing lockdowns and the military conflict in Europe have prompted us to revise our inflation projections further. The dynamic shifting of corporate winners and losers is a constant an...

Is the war between Russia and Ukraine still a market-relevant event? An off-ramp for Russia? A deflationary wave from China could spell trouble for markets. For further details see: Have Markets Fully Priced In The Russia-Ukraine Crisis?

China's GDP grew 4.8% YoY in 1Q22, which is not all that weak considering the high base effect of 18.3% YoY GDP growth in 1Q21. The surveyed jobless rate rose to 5.8% in March from 5.5% in February. Shanghai's GDP for April will be very poor. For further details see: Chi...

After a long weekend, Wall Street is ready to dive back into earnings season. With the ECB taking its time to wrap up bond-buying and start raising rates, it would take something quite substantial to rock the boat. It would appear gold isn’t going to extend its winning run ...

U.S. exports lifted the trajectory of trade between the U.S. and China in February 2022. Exports of U.S. mineral fuel oils also increased significantly in the year-over-year measure, with much of the remaining increase spread over multiple categories. Much as February 2021's trade...

After a promising start to the year, China’s economy is now facing its worst disruption since the beginning of the pandemic. With China unlikely to give up its zero-COVID stance, we expect another month of disruption in the mainland before the situation normalizes in May. C...

2021 was another record year for solar PV generation additions globally. 2022 is set to be an even stronger year with 32% year-on-year growth. Josefin Berg reviews the outlook for solar PV in 2022, the challenges to growth, and summarizes the long-term prospects for solar power. ...

Chinese consumer prices were flat from February 2022 to March, even though gasoline and energy costs predictably skyrocketed. Apart from materials costs and those in other commodities, producer prices have been decelerating and, in many cases, outright declining. Total foreign res...

The coming days are eventful. And that is with the known unknown, Russia's actions in Ukraine, held in abeyance. The ECB finds itself in a pickle as it meets on April 14! Consumer inflation surged to 7.5% in March (preliminary estimate) from 5.9% in February. The US reports prices...

Defaults in China real estate have been unprecedented—is policy support forthcoming and what will this market look like in the future? On March 16, the State Council’s financial stability and development committee, chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, helped improve market dy...