VPL News and Press, Vanguard FTSE Pacific From 08/08/23

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...

2023-08-02 23:43:00 ET Summary The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index compiled by S&P Global, held steady at 48.7 in July. Leading the weakness of global production was an intensification of the recent downturn in global goods trade. In this environme...

2023-07-31 02:57:00 ET Summary After a brief pullback in the first week, July is now back in positive territory. After taking a rest, the S&P Top 7 came roaring back. The most recent inflation and GDP reports were better than expected. In this week's issue of the...

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...

2023-07-17 11:10:00 ET Summary We favor emerging market to developed market assets on a brighter macro backdrop. We get granular and harness mega forces, per our playbook. U.S. bond yields slumped last week on softer CPI inflation data. We think still-tight labor markets will comp...

2023-07-12 01:50:00 ET Summary ETFs remain a fraction of the total global financial market in both equities and fixed income, ranging from 4.2%-12.6% of equities and 0.4%-2.7% of fixed income assets by region. ETFs represent 12.6% of equity assets in the U.S., 8.0% in Europe, and ...

2023-07-03 23:50:00 ET Summary The JPMorgan Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index compiled by S&P Global, registered 48.8 in June, down from 49.6 in May. The decline indicates an increasingly steep deterioration of business conditions, which have now worsened for ten...

2023-06-28 09:30:00 ET Summary Our base case anticipates a relatively brief and shallow economic slowdown as inflation continues to moderate and monetary policy tightening nears an end. In our downside scenario, we could potentially see a “hard landing,” starting wit...

2023-06-27 03:01:00 ET Summary The pace at which APAC economies reopened their borders has varied significantly, although most had reopened for international tourist travel by late 2022. As COVID-19 border restrictions were gradually relaxed in Thailand and also in many of Thailan...

2023-06-21 09:21:08 ET Summary With the S&P 500 at frothy valuations and bonds, savings accounts, and GICs offering appealing interest rates, it might be time to take some risk off your portfolio. The S&P 500 looks expensive on a number of metrics including the Shiller P/E...