HEWJ News and Press, iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan From 05/13/24

2024-05-13 10:40:00 ET Summary A weak yen is unlikely to end the positive momentum in Japanese equities. The drivers of the recent rally remain, so we stay overweight Japanese stocks. The S&P 500 neared its 2024 highs last week, supported by strong Q1 earnings. In Japan, autho...

2024-05-08 07:40:00 ET Summary Sweden's Riksbank became the second G10 central bank to cut rates this year. June WTI is straddling the $77 area, its lowest level since mid-March. The market pushed the dollar higher and challenged Japan's efforts on the yen. Overvie...

2024-05-08 01:35:00 ET Summary At 50.3, the Global Manufacturing PMI, sponsored by JPMorgan and compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, remained above the 50.0 neutral mark. Despite the cooling in the rate of improvement, the latest data signal an ongoing steadying of the ...

2024-05-04 05:00:00 ET Summary The Japanese currency had weakened back to 157.94 by Wednesday, before a second round of intervention pushed the dollar/yen down to 153. The Nasdaq 100 traded up to 17,800 in Monday trading - then dropped 2.9% to Wednesday morning lows. Any pushb...

2024-05-03 12:55:00 ET Summary Japan's equity market reached a 35-year record high in the first quarter of 2024, driven by the weakness of the yen against the U.S. dollar. The WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund and the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF delivered compelling p...

2024-05-01 12:00:00 ET Summary Stronger-than-anticipated economic data released during the first quarter led to a significant downward shift in market expectations for 2024 rate cuts. While equity markets were mostly unfazed by this change in expectations, fixed income markets exp...

2024-04-30 15:40:00 ET Summary March activity data was a mixed bag in Japan. Weak manufacturing weighed on growth in the first quarter of the year. We think that consumption is likely to improve on the back of a healthy labour market. By Min Joo Kang ...

2024-04-30 09:00:00 ET Summary The aim of the devaluation was to escape deflation which had persisted since (at least) the turn of the century. The Yen started to weaken in 2021 as the BOJ ramped up Yen printing again to help the economy recover from the COVID shock. Mortgage ...

2024-04-30 06:00:00 ET Summary The Japanese Yen has been undergoing quite the roller-coaster ride in recent weeks and is now down over 45% vs the USD since 2020. Despite the jump in inflation, the Bank of Japan left interest rates largely unchanged at 0% while every other Central ...

2024-04-27 22:31:00 ET Summary The Bank of Japan left its key interest rates unchanged today. Markets are clearly disappointed with the colourless policy guidance, but we believe the latest outlook report and Governor Ueda’s comments support our view that the BoJ will deliv...