ICOL News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Colombia From 08/15/22

Tower One Wireless has filed to raise approximately $86 million in an uplisting IPO to Nasdaq. The firm develops, acquires and leases wireless communications tower sites in several countries in the Americas. Tower One is growing revenue but is using a large amount of cash. ...

Emerging markets Asia’s regional central banks are powering ahead with frontloaded rate hikes. By contrast, we keep getting more dovish surprises in Central Europe. Brazil’s slower pace of tightening is well-deserved – the central bank was the hiking pioneer i...

Economies of Latin America and Caribbean have continued their strong post-pandemic rebound, but the winds are shifting as global financial conditions are tightening and commodity prices are reversing their upward trend, while inflationary pressures persist. The reopening of contact-in...

The peak rates chatter refuses to go away – and there are good reasons for that. Emerging markets' central banks frontloaded a lot of rate hikes, and real policy rates adjusted by expected inflation are now very positive (maybe even contractionary) in quite a few EMs. The l...

iShares today announced its plans to close the following U.S. -listed ETFs on August 25, 2022. The funds will cease trading and no longer accept creation or redemption orders after market close on August 22, 2022. Proceeds of the liquidation are currently scheduled to be sent to sha...

Recession risks are rising, with a European recession, oil embargo risks, and China’s zero-Covid uncertainties adding to Fed rate hikes as headwinds. China’s risks are multi-layered and hard for markets to discount. In our view, IMF officials are much more precise in...

As we entered 2022, many emerging markets were already hurting due to higher commodity prices and rising interest rates; then a war in eastern Europe sent shock waves through the markets. The conflict in Ukraine likely bodes poorly for Eastern Europe more broadly, expanding beyond Rus...

EM debt currently offers value to investors with a medium- to long-term horizon and a willingness to tolerate a period of higher volatility. EM sovereign high-yield spreads are particularly compelling, especially relative to U.S. high-yield debt. Longer term, we believe the outloo...

GXG is the preferred option for those looking to play Colombian equities. GXG’s movements in the short term will be predominantly driven by election-related developments that will linger till May/June. At this price point and valuation, Colombian equities don’t appea...

Emerging Markets are outperforming the rest of the world, due in large part to windfall profits in the commodities-exporting countries of South America and the Middle East. If you want to follow the money, this is a good place to start. Money has been flowing out of tech, consumer dis...