FLTW News and Press, Franklin FTSE Taiwan From 04/19/24

2024-04-19 07:45:00 ET Summary This year started on a strong note, with global equity markets gaining 8.9%. With better-than-expected economic data being published in the U.S., but also in Europe and China, market confidence grew, leading to a regional broadening of the bull marke...

2024-04-18 07:45:00 ET Summary Amid all-time highs for gold and sticky inflation, we turn our eye to the concerning fiscal outlook for 2025. At the end of 2023, we suggested that the three major macro factors - monetary policy, government spending and global economic growth - woul...

2024-04-17 09:25:00 ET Summary Investors have traditionally considered emerging markets a riskier investment opportunity set than developed markets. But the risk-return characteristics of EMs may be changing, as reflected recently in compressed EM sovereign spreads and realized eq...

2024-04-17 05:00:00 ET Summary Inflation cooled substantially last year, but upside surprises in early 2024 for the US and Europe have many investors concerned that the path back to normal has hit a roadblock. Fighting inflation is a long game, and global central banks seem to be ...

2024-04-16 10:19:00 ET Summary The Franklin FTSE Taiwan ETF offers exposure to Taiwanese mid and large-cap equities, and is heavily tilted towards tech. Taiwan's impressive economic growth is driven by high-tech manufacturing, but it faces geopolitical risks from China's claims ov...

2024-04-16 10:00:00 ET Summary China’s first-quarter 2024 GDP growth came in stronger than expected despite misses in retail sales and industrial production data as growth drivers shifted back toward investment. Investment was the key to 1Q24 GDP's outperformance, while las...

2024-04-13 06:56:17 ET Summary Bubbles can inflate for a long time, sustained by loose financial conditions and government rescues. Bubbles eventually burst - and they have this innate diabolical propensity to somehow catch the over-exposed masses by surprise, causing the greatest...

2024-04-11 15:02:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2024-04-11 06:13:00 ET Summary Are we in a new demand cycle for tech hardware as the COVID-era PC- and smartphone-purchase boom hits the first leg of its replacement cycle? And will AI-enabling devices act as a tailwind? If so, how can investors benefit? AI presents a second avenu...

2024-04-09 07:18:00 ET Summary Broad-based global economic indicators have clearly improved in the past three-to-six months, and this has happened as inflation has come down. The major DM central banks might not have started their easing cycle yet, but the underlying thrust of glo...