KXI News and Press, iShares Global Consumer Staples From 06/24/21

Since the start of earnings season, stocks have been range-bound and volatility has risen, up around 40% from the early April low. Cyclical sectors have been leading since the fall, while tech has been a funding source, as investors reposition for the fastest growth in decades. In...

The global food price index has been posting monthly increases for 12 straight months. KXI’s top holding, Nestle, expects inflation to be a persistent phenomenon this year and recently undertook price increases. The Lumber/Gold signal of The Lead-Lag Report recently turned ...

From a consumer perspective, the consumer is actually now demanding a focus on environmental, social, governance factors. If public expectations for inflation do rise, that is going to be a change from years past. There’s going to be an opportunity to make medical progress ...

iShares Global Consumer Staples ETF (KXI) - $0.6871.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.07% as of May 28.Payable Jun 16; for shareholders of record Jun 11; ex-div Jun 10. For further details see: iShares Global Consumer Staples ETF declares semi-annual distribution of $0.6871

The Consumer Non-cyclicals sector ranks first in Q2'21. Based on an aggregation of ratings of the 136 stocks in the Consumer Non-cyclicals sector. KXI is our top-rated Consumer Non-cyclicals sector ETF and FIJCX is our top-rated Consumer Non-cyclicals sector mutual fund. For...

Our sector ratings are based on the normalized aggregation of our stock ratings for every stock in each sector. The primary driver behind an attractive fund rating is good portfolio management (stock picking) combined with low total annual costs. At the beginning of the second qua...

The pace of recovery has begun to diverge across economies, with vaccination progress and the scale of government stimulus among the biggest swing factors. Macro disparities have also begun filtering into EPS growth expectations. Cyclically sensitive sectors have dominated the upg...

As economies emerge from pandemic restrictions, consumers are shifting spending from goods to more travel and dining out. While there are reasons for optimism, a long-term economic boom is still very much a question. Blu Putnam and Erik Norland discuss the prospects for a 2020s ec...

Investor sentiment and behavior, whether retail or institutional, capture the market "mood"-is it optimistic or pessimistic? The three most commonly referenced confidence indicators are the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index, the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index...

The iShares Global Consumer Staples ETF provides exposure to 91 Consumer Staples equities worldwide for an annual cost of 0.46%. In the last 10 years, a U.S.-only Consumer Staples ETF has been the better investment by about 2% per year. However, I am forecasting this trend to reve...