VWO News and Press, Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets From 07/20/23

2023-07-20 21:35:00 ET Summary Are we at or near peak yields for risk assets? The possibility is looking more likely these days. It’s notable that there’s rising confidence among economists for predicting that the Federal Reserve will lift rates one last time at the ...

2023-07-20 12:28:48 ET Summary Equity markets have seen strong, double-digit capital gains this year, with emerging market equities being an exception with weak, inconsistent single-digit gains. Despite recent underperformance, emerging market equities offer investors cheap prices...

2023-07-20 03:20:00 ET Summary Flexible exchange rates and anchored inflation expectations can alleviate the effects of a strong dollar. The US dollar’s strengthening last year to a 20-year high had major implications for the global economy. In emerging market economies...

2023-07-19 12:22:50 ET BlackRock said Wednesday that it favors assets tied to emerging markets rather than those related to more developed economies, basing its analysis in part on recent policies by central banks around the world. “A brighter EM [emerging market] macro and polic...

2023-07-18 08:00:00 ET Summary Concerns about the debt of overexposed sectors of U.S. commercial real estate have grown. Investors might be switching their attention from concerns about inflation and monetary policy to optimism about nominal growth. Downward pressure could com...

2023-07-17 12:57:00 ET Summary A few weeks ago, it appeared to me that stocks were starting a correction. I was clearly wrong about that as the S&P 500 and NASDAQ have moved higher since then and the rally has broadened out. Small cap, real estate, and commodities continue to ...

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...

2023-07-17 09:20:21 ET Summary The stock market has soared over the past nine months on improving rates of change in economic datapoints. Now, we need corporate fundamentals to validate the market's advance. Earnings for the second quarter should be the catalyst to power the m...

2023-07-15 02:20:00 ET Summary We wrap up our mid-year review of recent asset price trends with a look at non-US equities. Non-US equities have certainly had periods of outperformance, including – for a very brief while – earlier this year. For most of January, i...

2023-07-14 15:33:15 ET Summary The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index Fund ETF has reacted positively to the recent drop in US inflation and declining interest rate expectations. The VWO tracks the performance of the FTSE Emerging Markets index and offers exposure to large-cap E...