IQIN News and Press, IQ 500 International From 10/07/23

2023-10-07 03:31:00 ET Summary Global economic growth remained largely stalled for a second consecutive month in September, according to the S&P Global PMI surveys, based on data provided by over 27,000 companies. Global business activity growth remained largely stalled for a ...

2023-09-15 06:00:00 ET Summary The latest PMI data outlined renewed a contraction in developed markets while emerging markets growth, across both manufacturing and service sectors, slowed for a third month in a row. The rate of expansion for emerging markets remained marginally ab...

2023-09-14 11:00:00 ET Summary Expanding the fixed-income opportunity set globally allows US investors to capture diversification, attractive yields, and potential returns. The global bond market offers more opportunities for active managers to add alpha and diversification source...

2023-09-07 03:25:00 ET Summary Global jobs growth remained muted in August, according to PMI survey data. Job gains were largely limited to the emerging markets, where jobs growth hit a 12-year-high. Employment growth has cooled especially sharply in the US and Europe in recent mo...

2023-08-17 13:50:00 ET Summary Earnings have been stagnating, and this past quarter, they came in better than feared. Heading into this season, I was paying very close attention to if companies are able to keep and maybe even grow their margins, and the answer is yes. Looking ...

2023-07-31 10:30:00 ET Summary Major central banks tightened policy last week, including unexpectedly in Japan. We see the potential for rising Japanese bond yields to pull global yields higher. The Bank of Japan tweaked its yield cap, sending local yields to a nine-year high. Dev...

2023-07-20 01:45:00 ET Summary tronger global economic growth in 2023 has so far been spurred by resurgent post-pandemic spending on services such as travel and tourism. Manufacturing output slipped into decline in June, as a short-term production boost from improved supply availa...

2023-07-18 08:00:00 ET Summary Concerns about the debt of overexposed sectors of U.S. commercial real estate have grown. Investors might be switching their attention from concerns about inflation and monetary policy to optimism about nominal growth. Downward pressure could com...

2023-07-15 02:20:00 ET Summary We wrap up our mid-year review of recent asset price trends with a look at non-US equities. Non-US equities have certainly had periods of outperformance, including – for a very brief while – earlier this year. For most of January, i...

2023-07-11 00:45:00 ET Summary Global equity markets have had a very strong first half of the year, but it’s pretty unusual times because on the one hand, equities are contending with a pretty difficult macro backdrop. We’ve still got high inflation. We’ve got...