THD News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Thailand From 07/15/21

The Asia-Pacific region experienced a recession in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Asia-Pacific GDP contracting by an estimated 1.1%. During the second half of 2020, many Asia-Pacific economies had shown a significant recovery in economic momentum. However, recovery mome...

Big upside inflation surprises in Turkey and parts of LATAM co-exist with moderating inflation in EM Asia. China’s economic surprises keep decoupling from the rest of EM. From the market’s perspective, a key question is whether EM’s big inflation divide will reinf...

As the world convalesced from the pandemic, stocks advanced in the second quarter and earnings rebounded across sectors. With business gains broadening amid complex market risks, we think investors should lean on quality to find stocks that will perform well in a normalizing world eco...

Although global manufacturing output growth ran at one of the fastest rates seen for over a decade in June, capacity constraints continued to develop, reflecting a lack of labour and a record worsening of supplier delivery times. The shortfall of payroll numbers to new orders was espe...

Emerging market equities have continued their ascent so far this year, though the pace has moderated from the momentum of 2020. What’s worth noting, however, is a growing divergence between the perceived challenges surrounding these markets and their demonstrated structural str...

The global economy has reached an important milestone in the second quarter of 2021, surpassing the pre-pandemic real GDP peak attained in the fourth quarter of 2019. After a 3.5% contraction in 2020, global real GDP is projected to increase 6.0% in 2021, its strongest advance since 1...

Growth in emerging Asia is likely to remain uneven amid a slow vaccine rollout, pushing out our expectations for a full recovery into 2022. The main bottleneck, in our view, is the limited supply of vaccine doses. We expect uneven economic performance across EM Asia in 2021 and ha...

iShares MSCI Thailand ETF (THD) - $1.2785.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.05% as of May 28.Payable Jun 16; for shareholders of record Jun 11; ex-div Jun 10. For further details see: iShares MSCI Thailand ETF declares semi-annual distribution of $1.2785

From 2014 to early 2020, the Thai baht was the top-performing Asian currency by a large margin, displaying strong nominal and volatility-adjusted returns. We expect the baht to continue with its struggles in the near term. With adverse growth and interest rate differentials provid...

The markets have turned less bullish with ebbing momentum, but emerging markets are a higher risk category. Despite a new wave of virus infections, both monetary and fiscal policy options have narrowed in emerging markets. VWO's performance has been disappointing compared to peers...