FM News and Press, iShares MSCI Frontier 100 Fund From 07/15/23

2023-07-15 02:20:00 ET Summary We wrap up our mid-year review of recent asset price trends with a look at non-US equities. Non-US equities have certainly had periods of outperformance, including – for a very brief while – earlier this year. For most of January, i...

2023-07-14 09:34:35 ET Summary Frontier Markets declined by 26%, underperforming the MSCI AWI by over 10 percentage points, but the 2023 share price is seen as a solid entry point. The iShares MSCI Frontier Markets ETF offers broad exposure to frontier markets and smaller emerging...

2023-07-14 03:10:00 ET Summary RAFI Emerging Markets Large Company Index outperforms due to market volatility and emphasis on value-oriented companies. Combining different index approaches can help investors achieve their risk and return objectives. Index methodology plays a c...

2023-07-13 16:43:25 ET While %Nickel prices being down in 2023 is the headline, there is far more interesting subtext. Prices on the London Metal Exchange are teetering around $21,000 per metric ton against the backdrop of suspected slowing global economies and stockpiles starting to bu...

2023-07-12 21:25:00 ET Summary Emerging markets have been adopting new technologies, which solve existing challenges, raise productivity and reflect changing consumption patterns. During the first half of 2023, 72% of the gains and six out of the 10 largest contributors to the gai...

2023-07-11 06:03:39 ET Summary Significant economic improvements in Sri Lanka since November 2022, including reduced inflation and increased foreign exchange revenues. Revenues from international tourism and worker remittances are expected to reach approximately $2 billion and $5 ...

2023-07-11 00:45:00 ET Summary Global equity markets have had a very strong first half of the year, but it’s pretty unusual times because on the one hand, equities are contending with a pretty difficult macro backdrop. We’ve still got high inflation. We’ve got...

2023-07-07 03:19:00 ET Summary Growth in government debt has been a key driver of post-pandemic inflation in advanced economies. Monetary policies, while certainly accommodative, appear to have been less of a factor. In response to the pandemic, central banks slashed interest rate...

2023-07-05 01:20:00 ET Summary The US economy has remained remarkably resilient in the face of repeated shocks, most recently the regional bank turmoil in March. China’s economy disappointed our, and the market’s, expectations in 2Q. In contrast to other major econom...

2023-07-04 00:47:00 ET Summary Equity valuations are more relevant over a medium- or long-term horizon, but they’re also tactically important in helping determine an entry or exit point. The global business cycle is a key influence on EM’s relative performance. T...