QAT News and Press, iShares MSCI Qatar ETF From 12/06/23

2023-12-06 14:45:00 ET Summary Q3 was a decent quarter. We were broadly in line, actually slightly ahead, and that continued the outperformance over the last year plus. Looking at the outlook for emerging markets, I mentioned that, you know, post quarter-end October has been a dif...

2023-11-17 06:05:00 ET Summary Recent consumer price inflation releases in the US, eurozone, and UK have all surprised to the downside. The forecast for global consumer price inflation in 2024 has increased to 4.4%, driven by upward revisions in the Americas. Global PMI data i...

2023-11-10 08:41:00 ET Summary The impact of slower economic growth balances the impact of an escalation in the Middle East conflict on commodity prices. The US government recently announced an extension of its Foreign Direct Product Rule. This year’s Singles Day in Chi...

2023-10-17 21:05:00 ET Summary For now, the economic and market impacts of the Middle East conflict seem relatively contained. We do not see wider economic or market impacts stemming from the conflict in its current form. Its impacts on Israel’s vibrant technology and p...

2023-09-27 08:21:14 ET Summary iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF is not as cost competitive as other alternatives in this space. Reduced crude production is likely to weigh heavily on the GDP landscape whilst non-oil metrics are slowing too. The lag effects of higher cost of fundi...

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...

2023-07-26 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...

2023-07-11 01:45:00 ET Summary After a stellar performance driven by petrodollar inflows in 2022, the Gulf economy will feel the pinch of weaker global demand, higher borrowing rates, and lower oil output in line with OPEC+ decisions. S&P Global Market Intelligence forecasts r...

2023-06-02 06:58:40 ET Summary Qatar, like the rest of the Gulf, tends to track the O&G cycle, so the recent downcycle doesn't bode well for its prospects. The financials-heavy iShares MSCI Qatar ETF portfolio faces additional headwinds from the government's de-levering effort...

2023-04-19 10:18:00 ET Summary Qatar's real GDP grew by a robust 8.0% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022, as per preliminary estimates released by the Planning and Statistics Authority. We continue to expect slower real GDP expansion throughout 2023 as weaker global dema...