MXE News and Press, Mexico Equity and Income Fund Inc. From 08/26/21

Global real GDP reached a new high in the second quarter of 2021, completing a year-long recovery from the COVID-19 recession. The resilience of the global economy amid a lingering pandemic suggests that the world is learning to live with the COVID-19 virus. Western Europe's consu...

The Mexico Equity and Income Fund, Inc. (“the Fund”) (NYSE: MXE) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the terms of a non-transferable rights offering to purchase additional shares of its common stock. The Fund will issue to its stockholders of recor...

Like a lot of parts of the global economy, housing/wood/material each saw a drop in both supply and demand given last year’s recession. Once beyond the commodity-induced price effects, it becomes clear the economy is settling back into the same disinflationary circumstances or ...

Emerging markets are still expected to lead the global economic recovery, with forecasted 2021 GDP growth of 6.7% vs. 6.4% for the United States. EM equities rose in May and outpaced developed market stocks. We believe that EMs will continue to show resilience with many countries ...

While recovery in economic growth could remain muted this year in many markets, we expect more normalization in 2022. EM equities rebounded in April but trailed their DM counterparts. Emerging Asian equities rose in April. Among the top regional markets were Taiwan, South Korea an...

For the fifth month in a row, equity CEFs on average posted positive returns, rising 2.77% on an NAV basis for March. While for the eleventh month in 12 fixed income CEFs posted plus-side returns (+0.45%). Twenty-four percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, with 23% ...

In the first quarter, the global economy continued to recover from the steep losses of a year ago, but at a weaker pace as a result of still high COVID-19 cases and slow starts to vaccinations in many countries. The MSCI Emerging Market Index outperformed EAFE, ending 2020 up 18.7%. ...

Emerging Asian equities outpaced broader EMs in January. East Asian markets were largely buoyant. In many EMs, a central new reality is the rise of domestic demand as a driver of growth. Often overlooked, we believe that the frontier markets (FMs) asset class continues to exhibit ...

During the fourth quarter, our base case for emerging markets (EM) was the following: we saw favorable economics, questionable politics, and an exciting digital disruption theme that swept across emerging markets countries around the world. Emerging markets have traditionally underper...

Mexican pension funds have had a particularly large home bias in their equity allocations compared to other markets. An examination of the characteristics, performance and return-to-risk profiles of the equity market in Mexico from 2008 through September 2020 shows that maintaining a ...