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While economic growth will resume in the second quarter, tightening credit conditions will restrain consumer and business spending. Led by post-pandemic surges in Mainland China and India, world real GDP grew

The first major war in Europe, on Western Europe’s doorstep, sent the euro versus the dollar foreign exchange relationship to a two-decade low in 2022. At the $1.0800 level on June 13, the euro versus the dollar

Investors should be aware that they have benefitted from a period of “globalization” and “neoliberalism” characterized by less government intervention in markets and reduced restrictions on international

“One month, everyone thinks we’ve hit peak rates, and this reverberates across asset classes,” Andrew Beer, co-portfolio manager of the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (DBMF) and co-founder of Dynamic

On the latest episode of ETF 360, VettaFi head of research Todd Rosenbluth was joined by David Schassler, Head of Quantitative Investment Solutions for VanEck. The two discussed the VanEck Inflation

Skeptics of peak oil may question its validity, considering that after a 50% decline over the past 40 years, US oil production unexpectedly bounced back, growing by 10 million barrels per day (mbd) – an amount equivalent

Market participants assume that the Federal Reserve’s 525 basis points in hikes since March 2022 is the economic equivalent of a zombie bite, and that the economy will certainly go into recession. Taking a step back,

Last week’s U.S. debt ceiling deal removes near-term uncertainty and thrusts the market’s focus back to the macro picture: sticky inflation due to tight labor markets. But we do think higher-for-longer interest rates will

Also, this increased yield and carry associated with EM local currency debt come with a lower sensitivity to interest rate movements (duration) when compared to other asset classes within the fixed income spectrum.

With this in mind, more investors could turn away from MCHI and similar funds whose next moves are difficult to assess, and instead dabble in more stable emerging market ETFs. I discussed this same point in my

China’s reopening surge collapsed at the end of January, and Chinese equities have slowly lost popularity, contradicting Wall Street analysts’ strong conviction calls at the beginning of 2023. In addition, analysts have cut their growth predictions due to weaker-than-expected economic data, the weakening yuan, the debt challenges in the real estate market, and concerns over deteriorating relations with Western nations have further dampened the Chinese equities outlook.

Emerging markets (EM) have been regarded as a high risk, and predominantly risk-on asset class, when the Covid crisis occurred in Q1, 2020[1]. Fears centred on the risks of deep contagion across the asset class, characteristic of previous crises in the late-1990s, and during the GFC, should cross-border capital flows collapse, after Lockdowns and extreme risk aversion.

Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a scheme linking their respective ETF markets. The scheme will allow ETF issuers in both

As such, consider the Sprott Energy Transition Materials ETF (SETM), which has a significant portion of its holdings in Australian companies (23.1% of the fund as of April 28). Australia boasts a vast lithium ore