KLDW News and Press, Knowledge Leaders Developed World From 11/10/21

Across sectors and around the world, inflation was prominent in recent earnings reports. In recent years, US-China trade tensions prompted some multinationals to rethink their supply chains and processes. In industries like energy and commodities, many companies benefit immediatel...

For the quarter, equities posted negative returns, with the US being the exception where performance was slightly positive, while the fixed-income markets were mixed. A closer look at the broad equity markets reveals that year-to-date, it has delivered generally rising returns with so...

The root of the input shortages and supply chain problems lies in the first wave of the coronavirus crisis. While container throughput dropped significantly in Chinese ports, it rose strongly in European countries like France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. From a growth p...

IHS Markit's PMI surveys track input costs at manufacturing and service sector companies around the world, as well as the average prices charged for these goods and services. The Global PMI's selling price index hit an all-time high of 60.3 with record highs seen for both goods and se...

Global economic growth gained momentum at the start of the fourth quarter as disruptions to businesses in many countries eased in line with a reduction in COVID-19 case numbers. The PMI was boosted by faster service sector growth, which picked up sharply to the highest for three month...

October’s PMI readings from around the world were strong with a new high in the percentage of countries in growth mode. Under the surface, however, risks loom in the background with China and the ongoing backlogs/supply chain disruption issues. More concerning might be the ...

Climate risk is investment risk. The global net-zero transition will help shape portfolio outcomes over coming years, with emerging markets playing a key role. The Federal Reserve plans to start tapering its bond purchases in November and said the current high inflation will unlikely ...

The recent run higher in the Sharpe ratio for the Global Market Index finally reversed in October. Risk-adjusted performance has slipped, but GMI's rebound in October lifted it to a new record high. GMI is useful as a baseline to begin research on asset allocation and portfolio de...

Worldwide manufacturing output growth slowed in October to the weakest so far in the recovery from the initial pandemic lockdowns. This shortfall of production could be to a large extent explained by ongoing supply constraints, in part relating to labour but more widely for raw materi...

The interesting thing is that, depending on how you define “global stock market capitalization”, the US stock market is not nearly as big as we think. If we use the actual full market capitalization the US stock market is just 41% of global equities. But if we use the in...