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...The UK SMID-cap index is even on a sharp discount to UK Large Cap — more than one standard deviation below the 10y average. [enlarge] Here comes the B word. Peak hard Brexit angst?...
...You look at an index. Where’s the S&P 500? Where is the MSCI World? What’s it doing? If you really fancy it you can look at where the FTSE 100 is trading....
...And yet, a month later, global equity markets, as measured by the MSCI World index, are back near their highs of the year; the VIX index, a proxy for risk aversion in equity markets, is at the lowest level...
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...The company, now worth ¥1.1tn, is caving to Elliott’s demand to increase return on equity to 10 per cent, modest by international standards but above MSCI Japan’s average ROE....
...The number of unique active lenders in CRE is falling, notes Jim Costello, chief real estate economist at MSCI....
...Czech presidential elections The Czech Republic starts the first of a two-day election to decide the country’s next head of state....
...Shares in First Republic remain 65 per cent lower than a week ago....
...It was an ugly day for banks: the KBW bank index was down 11 per cent, and there were 10 banks that lost 20 per cent or more....
...Index provider MSCI said it would drop Russian stocks from its widely tracked emerging markets indices, warning that the country’s equity market had become “uninvestable” after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine...
...MSCI, which runs the most widely followed emerging market equity index, said on Monday it was seeking feedback from market participants regarding the “accessibility and investability” of Russian equities...
...For example, MSCI, the index provider, is making millions of dollars on ESG....
...The moves came after Austria implemented a lockdown to battle surging Covid-19 cases and Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia toughened coronavirus restrictions....
...Government bonds with negative yields have been issued by Japan, most counties in the eurozone — even Greece which faced a multiyear debt crisis starting in 2009 — as well Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria...
...Today’s MSCI EM index of equities in 27 countries — the most widely-followed benchmark — includes some, such as South Korea, Taiwan and the Czech Republic, that have made such progress that few outside the...
...Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Hungary, and the Czech Republic all tightened policy in June....
...India’s benchmark Sensex equity index is up 25 per cent this year, the best performer among Asia’s large economies, while China’s Shanghai SE Composite index is flat over the same period....
...Beyond China, Mr Dhawan singles out government bonds issued by Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Peru and Chile as other candidates to counter equity risks....
...This means middle-income developing countries such as Poland, Chile and the Czech Republic are rated more highly than the likes of Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ivory Coast....
...But now, as volatility fades — helped by Fed support measures — strategies such as “risk parity” funds that are sensitive to price swings are adding to their equity exposures, buoying markets....
...Emerging market fund managers have largely shunned changes to the flagship equity index compiled by MSCI, which has added Saudi Arabia and sharply raised the weighting of mainland Chinese stocks in its EM...
...MSCI Europe has an energy weighting of 4 per cent, with the emerging markets benchmark holding a 6 per cent share....
...EU Staples previously, as we see the UK index as more representative of their businesses....
...Some analysts point out that while some countries — such as Norway, Denmark, the Czech Republic and Austria — have recently announced plans to gradually end their lockdowns, the economic damage is likely...
...EM funds’ exposure to Vietnam is also two-and-a-half times that of Saudi Arabia, and above that of the Czech Republic and Pakistan, all of which are in the index....
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