ICOL News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Colombia From 03/06/22

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...

Non-U.S. markets, including EM, DM, and Asia, are outperforming the U.S. markets after underperforming last year. After slightly underperforming growth last year, value is where the money is flowing. With the economy still in growth mode, cyclical stocks should do better than defe...

Global real GDP reached a new high in the second quarter of 2021, completing a year-long recovery from the COVID-19 recession. The resilience of the global economy amid a lingering pandemic suggests that the world is learning to live with the COVID-19 virus. Western Europe's consu...

Most Latin American companies have historically been attractive during particular cyclical periods similar to today, of rising commodity prices. As a Latin American case study, Colombia offers two exceptionally high quality and extremely cheap financial conglomerates trading at 6x-7x ...

iShares MSCI Colombia ETF (ICOL) - $0.0387.30-Day SEC Yield of 1.88% as of May 28.Payable Jun 16; for shareholders of record Jun 11; ex-div Jun 10. For further details see: iShares MSCI Colombia ETF declares semi-annual distribution of $0.0387

Emerging markets are still expected to lead the global economic recovery, with forecasted 2021 GDP growth of 6.7% vs. 6.4% for the United States. EM equities rose in May and outpaced developed market stocks. We believe that EMs will continue to show resilience with many countries ...

Ecopetrol ([[EC]] -2.2%) shares are under some pressure after S&P Global Ratings cut Colombia's rating to junk bond status, sending the Colombian peso and stocks lower.The downgrade follows violent anti-government protests, as well as growing concerns over strained spending and debt resul...

While recovery in economic growth could remain muted this year in many markets, we expect more normalization in 2022. EM equities rebounded in April but trailed their DM counterparts. Emerging Asian equities rose in April. Among the top regional markets were Taiwan, South Korea an...

Rising sovereign debt levels and higher unemployment are among the key challenges that policymakers in frontier markets would have to monitor and address. Some frontier markets have also underperformed emerging markets this year due to concerns about the physical health care infrastructur...

Global business cycles are closely interconnected. Global business cycles are closely synchronized. Global equity markets respond accordingly. For further details see: Investing In Foreign Markets Sounds Exciting - But Isn't Always