WCHN News and Press, WisdomTree ICBCCS S&P China 500 Fund From 04/01/20

Our basic coronavirus problem Of course the basic, basic, problem is about health care and epidemiology but that's not the point for us here as investors. Rather, we're interested in the macroeconomic effects for that then tells us when markets in general, thus stock markets, are going to ge...

By Ed Moya Thanks to swift action worldwide by central banks, global equities avoided a disastrous place, a possible combination of a 1930s-like depression and the 2008 financial crisis. In just a matter of weeks, massive monetary and fiscal stimulus was injected into the global economy, s...

By Min Zhou, Vivian Chen When we travelled to Vietnam in late December, the first novel coronavirus cases hadn’t even been reported in China. Now, with the virus battering Chinese manufacturing, our impressions from that visit seem especially timely as investors seek to asses...

By Michael Lai, CFA, Portfolio Manager, China Equities, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity As markets grapple with the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak, our Michael Lai, Portfolio Manager, China Equities, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, considers what a reco...

By John Lin, Stuart Rae As the Greater China region begins to show nascent signs of success in stemming the coronavirus, regional markets have held up better than developed-world markets. With the US and Europe still in panic over the pandemic, we think investors should look at the Chinese...

Originally published on March 20, 2020 While COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the world, the number of active infections within China has been declining since mid-February. In fact, yesterday marked the first day since the outbreak began that China reported no new locally transmi...

By Manraj Sekhon, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity While the United States and Europe are just starting to feel the economic impacts of the coronavirus, China is starting to recover. In our latest "Talking Markets" podcast, Manraj Sekhon, Chief Inv...

China has been the epicenter for the coronavirus outbreak, but its stock market is suffering the least on a year-to-date basis through yesterday's close (Mar. 12) for the world's major equity market regions, based on a set of exchange-traded funds. The iShares MSCI China ETF (MCHI) has lost ...

How much will the coronavirus pandemic affect trade between the U.S. and China? At this point, that's a big unknown, but with the U.S. and China having come to a 'Phase 1' trade deal that should act to stabilize trade between the two nations following their 2018-2019 tariff war, we can take ...

Original Post By Stuart Burns Falling infection rates to the lowest level since January and President Xi Jinping's visit to Wuhan yesterday suggest all is returning to normal in China. Some are looking for a V-shaped bounce back and maybe even a softer hit to Q1 GDP growth than pre...