IIF News and Press, Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund Inc. From 05/28/24

2024-05-28 08:55:00 ET Summary Demographic divergence – a mega force that most investors don’t think about from a capital spending perspective – shapes infrastructure needs across economies. Digital disruption and AI are already creating a massive and immediat...

2024-05-27 10:32:44 ET Summary Nvidia's stock surged 15% this week, boosting market capitalization to $2.619 TN - or 62 times earnings and 32.9 times revenues. As is typically the case, policies and speculation strategies that take U.S. finance by storm soon permeate the world. ...

2024-05-20 09:35:00 ET Summary American consumers, often seen as a bellwether for the global economy - have been largely resilient and healthy despite sticky inflation and higher interest rates. Can this resilience continue as difficult market conditions persist? At a high lev...

2024-05-14 03:20:00 ET Summary The worldwide PMI surveys compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence indicated that global trade expanded at the start of the second quarter of 2024. The seasonally adjusted Global PMI New Export Orders Index posted 50.6 in April, up from 49.8 in...

2024-05-10 09:30:00 ET Summary Emerging market economic growth was sustained at a solid rate at the start of the second quarter of 2024. Cost pressures intensified for emerging market firms as average input prices rose at a faster rate. Of the four major emerging market econom...

2024-05-08 09:09:00 ET Summary We actually started off the year with still some continuation of the trends in the asset class that we've seen by the end of 2023. We also saw geographies like Taiwan and India, which were good performers last year, continuing to contribute positivel...

2024-05-07 08:50:00 ET Summary Chinese equities have rebounded, reversing the negative returns recorded in the first quarter. Investor expectations for US interest rate cuts have reset. The Commodities Research Bureau Index of commodity prices rose 7.4% year-to-date through th...

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...

2024-04-25 23:16:05 ET Summary IIF has started 2024 on a positive note. The fund’s intact fundamentals point to more outperformance to come. A wider-than-usual NAV discount makes the risk/reward especially interesting. News flow out of India continues to be ov...

2024-04-21 09:00:00 ET Summary For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers various asset classes and promises high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds, or CEFs, are generally characterized by higher volatility a...