LDEM News and Press, iShares ESG MSCI EM Leaders ETF From 09/15/23

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...

2023-09-09 01:20:00 ET Summary The opportunity set is wide and growing wider in emerging markets, according to Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity. The BRICS summit in South Africa in August announced the expansion of the group to include potentially six new members in earl...

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...

2023-08-12 05:30:00 ET Summary The slowdown in growth that had been more prominent in developed markets is now hitting emerging markets going into the second half of 2023. July's PMI data showed emerging markets expanding at the slowest pace in six months, supported chiefly by ser...

2023-08-08 04:00:00 ET Summary Emerging markets are filled with opportunities for growth. EM equities started the second half of 2023 on a good note. All major equity benchmarks in the Latin American region also posted gains, with macroeconomic data taking centerstage in the r...

2023-08-07 13:30:00 ET Summary We see emerging markets better withstanding volatility and benefiting as supply chains rewire. We switch our EM debt preference to hard currency from local. Developed market stocks slid last week and long-term bond yields jumped as markets focused on...

2023-08-06 05:05:00 ET Summary As we ushered in 2023, our outlook was shaped by the constriction of monetary supply, tight government spending and weaker corporate profits. Amid the broader market dynamics, two areas stand out: rising emerging markets stars and Bitcoin. We bel...

2023-07-30 04:05:00 ET Summary Baron is an asset management firm focused on delivering growth equity investment solutions known for a long-term, fundamental, active approach to growth investing. Baron Emerging Markets Fund outperformed its benchmark index and the emerging markets ...

2023-07-26 03:37:00 ET Summary Economic activity in the first quarter of the year proved resilient, despite the challenging environment, amid surprisingly strong labor markets. The global tightening of monetary policy has brought policy rates into contractionary territory. Lab...

2023-07-26 01:56:00 ET Summary In 2022, North America and Western Europe scored highest on the democracy index, and Middle East and Africa scored the lowest. Much of Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand and Canada/United States fall into the least corrupt category, but corr...