SCHE News and Press, Schwab Emerging Markets Equity From 06/28/23

2023-06-28 13:05:36 ET Summary The Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF has attractive valuations and improving fundamentals in emerging markets, but its high exposure to China and its underperformance compared to the S&P 500 makes it a risky investment. Despite a decline in 202...

2023-06-22 02:27:00 ET Summary The exit from a decade of very low interest rates, via the most aggressive hiking cycle since 1980 has laid bare the distorted financing incentives that became entrenched in the years between the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and the end of pandemic-er...

2023-06-16 02:29:00 ET Summary Banking sector crises have historically been one of the key drivers of risk for emerging-market (EM) countries’ asset returns. Naturally, the recent banking crises in the US and Europe raise concerns about EM exposure to financial sector risks...

2023-06-14 06:28:00 ET Summary We’ve seen signs of improvement that are positive for the Chinese internet services sector, but that space also continues to be a place of extreme competitive aggression. As a result of the creation of economic zones, increased availability of...

2023-06-14 04:30:00 ET Summary Emerging Markets Funds are made up of funds that seek long-term capital appreciation. Nigeria and Emerging Markets Europe have been the two areas that have seen the highest year-to-date and May returns. With the U.S. looking to pause rate hikes, ...

2023-06-12 10:40:00 ET Summary BlackRock investment leaders at our Outlook Forum agreed the new regime is playing out. They eye assets that price that in and benefit from structural trends. Developed market (DM) stocks ticked up last week, led by U.S. tech. Bond yields rose as mar...

2023-06-07 08:30:00 ET Summary The first few years of the 2020s have seen a number of acute economic, financial, and geopolitical disruptions on a worldwide scale, and it will take time for the ultimate consequences of these shocks to be fully felt. With the era of volatility-supp...

2023-06-07 00:31:00 ET Summary Emerging markets are gaining attention from foreign investors, with AI-driven chip demand and China's deposit rate cuts stimulating growth. The transition to a greener future presents significant investment opportunities in renewable energy, decarbon...

2023-05-25 23:45:00 ET Summary As inflation remains high in many developed markets, emerging market central banks were quicker to hike interest rates coming out of the pandemic that helped to steady their economies. So emerging markets started raising interest rates first, and the...

2023-05-20 04:30:00 ET Summary So far, the world of investing in 2023 is proving to be very different from 2022. In early May, the Fed raised interest rates above 5% for the first time since 2007. Investors are asking questions about whether rates will stop rising and if infla...