WDIV News and Press, SPDR S&P Global Dividend From 07/26/23

2023-07-26 06:05:00 ET Summary While S&P Global Market Intelligence's global real GDP growth forecast for 2023 is unchanged at 2.4%, this masks regional divergence. From a cycle high of over 8.0% in September 2022, global consumer price inflation has fallen to an estimated 4.7...

2023-07-26 03:37:00 ET Summary Economic activity in the first quarter of the year proved resilient, despite the challenging environment, amid surprisingly strong labor markets. The global tightening of monetary policy has brought policy rates into contractionary territory. Lab...

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...

2023-07-25 08:30:00 ET Summary Markets have a distinct Goldilocks feel about them at the moment. This is a story about two trends; easing inflation and economies which are, well… neither too hot nor too cold. The economic backdrop to the downshift in inflation pressures rem...

2023-07-19 20:55:00 ET Summary Modern Portfolio Theory focuses on assembling the optimal group of assets to achieve the best return per unit of risk. Diversification works well because it blends short and long duration instruments thereby reducing the overall average duration. ...

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 19:47:00 ET Summary The worldwide Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence indicated a sixteenth monthly fall in export orders for goods and services at the end of the second quarter. In May, the seasonally adjusted PMI New...

2023-07-12 03:30:00 ET Summary The high-yield sector offers attractive absolute and relative return prospects due to resilient corporate fundamentals. Consumers and labor market conditions remain on solid footing. Spreads have mostly widened from the end of 2022 through the en...

2023-07-11 01:55:00 ET Summary The global economy continued to expand in June, according to the S&P Global PMI surveys, based on data provided by over 27,000 companies. The latest PMI indicates that the global economy has grown for five successive months, with this renewed exp...

2023-07-08 03:50:00 ET Summary S&P Global sector PMI survey data have shown resilient worldwide economic growth in early 2023 to have been fuelled by resurgent demand for consumer services amid a post-pandemic shift. The latest June PMI survey data brought signs that this cons...