WCHN News and Press, WisdomTree ICBCCS S&P China 500 Fund From 01/31/20

Over the past years, the world became accustomed to double-digit percentage economic growth in China. In late 2015 and early 2016, a slowdown in the world's most populous nation caused commodities prices to fall to multiyear lows as concerns over the Chinese economy rippled around the globe li...

By Chris Turner, Global Head of Strategy and Head of EMEA and LATAM Research & ING team Parallels to SARS? Ever since 7 January, when Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a new virus, global financial markets have increasingly taken notice of the coronavirus. ...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: How does today’s situation compare to the 2003 SARS outbreak? The outbreak of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, and in pockets around the world has garnered significant public concern, and the global fi...

Russ discusses the catalysts favoring emerging markets, beginning with the Federal Reserve. Starting in late August, two things happened that had not occurred in several years: The Federal Reserve started expanding its balance sheet, and emerging markets began outperforming. The two are in...

Originally published on January 23, 2020 By Mo Ji The Wuhan coronavirus is spreading across China, causing disruption, severe illness and even death. In addition to the tragic human cost of an epidemic, widespread disease can cause meaningful macroeconomic damage. The historical cont...

While China should again contribute around 1 percentage point to global growth in 2020, we found on our latest research trip to Beijing that secular risks remain biased to the downside. In prioritizing stability over all other objectives, China is borrowing from future growth while reducing ...

By Michael Hasenstab, Ph.D., Chief Investment Officer, Templeton Global Macro; Attila Korpos, Ph.D., Senior Global Macro & Research Analyst, Templeton Global Macro; Calvin Ho, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Director of Research, Templeton Global Macro; Diego Valderrama, ...

Chris discusses key long-term trends in China as both a new decade and the 12-year lunar new year cycle begin. For those celebrating the Lunar New Year, 2020 is the Year of the Rat, the first of the 12-year cycle of animals that name the years. In Chinese mythology, a race was held to dete...

The most interesting thing happening at the moment is the Chinese coronavirus that has sent the Chinese markets down 5% already this week and our 5% Rule™ says a weak bounce is 1% and a strong bounce would be 2% - so we'll see if the weak bounce fails tonight and, if so, we may be hea...

This was a somewhat light week of international news. There were, however, three regions that issued some key data. Chinese GDP increased by 6.1% in the latest quarter. This continues the moderating trend that we've seen in China for the last few years. The same report noted that indus...