JPN News and Press, Xtrackers Japan JPX-Nikkei 400 Equity ETF From 02/12/22

Inflation and interest rates have been at the forefront of investors’ minds so far this year and that’s unlikely to change for some time yet. Earnings season provided a welcome and timely distraction and enabled markets to find some stability but as we saw towards the en...

Major central bank policies are diverging. Elevated exchange rate volatility may reflect the intensifying divergences. The U.S. Federal Reserve has provided guidance that it expects to end its asset purchases by March 2022, and then commence the process of increasing short-term intere...

Just as global economic growth slowed to an 18-month low at the start of 2022 amid rising COVID-19 infection rates, price pressures intensified. Rising inflation is also broad-based geographically. Growth will likely accelerate again globally once the worst of the Omicron wave pas...

Stocks and bonds sold off in January as markets repriced for a more aggressive pace of central bank tightening and increased pressures on the global earnings recovery. Tech and other pricey high-growth stocks tend to underperform in periods of rising interest rates. Value returns ...

The global central bank community has been wrong on inflation. Euro zone inflation rose to a new record high last month, defying expectations for a big drop and piling pressure on the European Central Bank to finally admit that price growth is not as temporary and benign as it has lon...

It’s been an incredible couple of weeks in the markets, one in which we’ve seen another hawkish move from multiple central banks, big swings in stocks on the back of earnings, and tensions around Ukraine intensify. Traders will be paying very close attention to incoming ...

When considering portfolio allocation, it’s important to keep in mind the wide dispersion of returns among economies. Inflation in Japan has remained persistently tame, and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to continue its 10th consecutive year of an ultra-easy policy stance....

The stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. The recent stock market volatility is reinforcing the idea that the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance regarding hiking i...

Inflation and supply chain headwinds are expected to ease as the year progresses. And reopening trade will present select opportunities. Transitory inflation is lasting longer than anticipated, but we believe that inflation will moderate through 2022. 2022 will be a year of change...

Upcoming rate hikes could drive an increase in hedging costs for Japanese investors, redirecting flows into unconventional assets and regions. Hedged yield pickup is naturally governed by the relationship of the spot and forward FX rates, which in turn are driven primarily by short-te...