GSG News and Press, iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund From 01/19/24

2024-01-19 01:45:00 ET Summary Rate cuts don’t happen in a vacuum - staying nimble with asset allocation can help investors adapt. Our research shows that rate-cut periods leading up to recessions have been the most challenging, though some assets have done well. Except...

2024-01-17 20:25:00 ET Summary In reflecting upon 2023’s performance results across asset classes, it is apparent this year posed considerable challenges for capital markets amidst the ongoing macroeconomic transition. While equities maintained respectable full-year gains, ...

2024-01-16 22:49:00 ET Summary The year ahead is, of course, a blank slate and no one has a clue how events will unfold. Weather and geopolitical risk are also on the short list as factors that could drive commodities prices higher, although marginal demand and monetary (liquidity...

2024-01-12 06:30:00 ET Summary Over the past few hundred years, there has been a relationship between the extent of global military conflict and secular trends in commodity prices. Secular upward trends in commodity prices have coincided with increases in both the frequency and am...

2024-01-03 09:15:00 ET Summary The long-term return forecast for the Global Market Index ticked lower in December, easing to an expected 6.7% annualized total return, based on the average of three models. In line with recent history, the ex-ante return for US stocks is the outlier...

2024-01-02 14:50:00 ET Summary Real estate securities rebounded sharply in December, leading the broad-based gains for the major asset classes in the final month of 2023, based on a set of ETFs. Commodities, by contrast, were the downside outlier for December and for the calendar ...

2023-12-28 06:30:00 ET Summary The markets have been so fixated on forecasting a recession and ensuing rate cuts that they have ignored an abundance of data pointing to the early stages of a manufacturing-led expansion. It appears the market may have been mispriced amid the Federa...

2023-12-19 09:44:00 ET Summary It’s been a profitable year for the major asset classes, with a glaring exception: commodities. GCC has lost 3.3% year to date. That’s a mild decline, but it marks a stark contrast against across-the-board gains in 2023 for the major as...

2023-12-13 02:26:00 ET Summary Outlook for commodities in 2024. Will slowing growth hurt commodity prices? Commodities demand: What to expect from China in 2024. Numerous recent economic indicators have been signaling that economic growth may be starting to slow. D...

2023-12-12 09:45:49 ET Summary November CPI came in slightly higher than expected, with Headline CPI at +0.1% and Core inflation near forecasts at +0.3%. Used car prices rose for the first time since May, though other vehicle value indexes show easing car price trends. Inflati...