THD News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Thailand From 02/09/23

Summary The iShares MSCI Thailand Capped ETF looks poised for a better 2023 as the Chinese reopening gets underway. The ETF's diversification allows investors to benefit from the first and second-order effects of a tourism rebound, as well as long-term foreign investment tailwinds. ...

Summary China’s economic reopening is proceeding swiftly, despite the spike in COVID-19 cases in early January. January witnessed a dramatic shift in the performance of growth stocks, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Growth Index posting double-digit returns. Consensus expectat...

Summary The upsides to falling demand and spare capacity were fewer supply constraints and a further marked moderation of price pressures. While Japan's factory output downturn likewise moderated slightly, it remained among the sharpest witnessed over the past decade. Future output ...

Summary ASEAN manufacturers continued to experience a slowdown at the end of 2022, with December's PMI data indicating the softest output expansion in 15 months. One unsurprising development with the slowing of demand for manufactured goods had been the abating of price pressures, which...

Summary Against the challenging environment and increasingly dimming economy globally in 2022, Southeast Asian countries represent a rare part of the world that have delivered impressive resilience. The heavier exposure to value-driven sectors also leads the FTSE ASEAN Index to deliver ...

Summary THD invests in Thai equities. The fund has actually out-performed the United States' S&P 500 index in recent times. However, Thai equities still look fully valued, and could easily reprice to a lower earnings multiple in the long run, even if consensus analyst esti...

Summary Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) power sector will peak in 2029 in the current forecast. In September 2021, the Indian central regulator published the draft deviation settlement mechanism (DSM) regulations, which propos...

Summary Both the Empire Manufacturing Survey and Philly Fed business outlook are expected to remain in contraction territory. Earnings season heats up as we hear from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, and Tesla. Japan may need to intervene in the FX market again as the ...

Summary Key drivers for rising FDI inflows into Southeast Asia include diversification of manufacturing supply chains by multinationals, as well as new investments to tap rapidly growing consumer markets in ASEAN. In the near-term, FDI inflows to the ASEAN region are also expected...

Summary Europe's quest for LNG to replace Russian pipeline gas will continue to prop international LNG prices until significant tranches of new supply can be brought onstream by 2025-26. To replace sharply declining Russian piped gas supply, European gas buyers are turning to LNG ...