EWY News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI South Korea From 04/12/23

2023-04-12 01:39:00 ET Summary We believe that beyond China, EMs offer an attractive and differentiated opportunity set - one which drove our launch of our EM ex China Growth strategy. Ex China, EMs have much more technology (particularly semiconductor and broad hardware), materia...

2023-03-26 05:16:00 ET Summary The regulatory intervention of Silicon Valley Bank stopped corporate and financial sector issuance altogether for four working days. The most notable sign of market resilience was a highly successful USD1.8 billion 10 and 31-year sale by Republic of ...

Summary Global manufacturing output returned to growth in February after six months of decline, according to the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index compiled by S&P Global. The improvement was driven by Asia and coincided with the reopening of the economy of mai...

Summary Aswath Damodaran is an investing and finance authority on markets & valuation, among many other things. In a 2022 interview, he provided a masterclass in inflation, some lessons in history, and potential ways to protect your portfolio this time around. In a previous piec...

Summary The Franklin FTSE South Korea ETF is a smaller, less commonly covered ETF that tracks the performance of mid/large cap stocks in South Korea. South Korea is currently my top pick out of the top five largest MSCI Emerging Market countries, which include China, Taiwan, South Korea...

Summary Even amid still-elevated (though moderating) inflation levels, some economists offered cautiously optimistic global growth forecasts during last month’s World Economic Forum. While global growth may still be dampened, China’s reopening marks a notable turning point...

Summary China’s economic reopening is proceeding swiftly, despite the spike in COVID-19 cases in early January. January witnessed a dramatic shift in the performance of growth stocks, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Growth Index posting double-digit returns. Consensus expectat...

Summary The South Korean economy slowed significantly during the second half of 2022, with GDP contracting by 0.4% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) in the fourth quarter of 2022. South Korea's manufacturing sector remained in contraction territory at the start of 2023, according to latest PMI d...

Summary International institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the OECD, have all warned of a downturn in the global economy commencing in the fourth quarter of last year and continuing in the early months of 2023. The fourth quarter of 2022 was indee...

Summary Weakness in the EWY over recent years has seen the PE ratio on the index fall below 10x, which is significantly below its developed market peers. Korea has strong economic fundamentals in terms of its external balance sheet, fiscal position, and savings rates, which arguably sho...