iShares MSCI ACWI Index Fund ETF News

The Australian dollar is consolidating yesterday's recovery and is in about a quarter-cent range above $0.7260. The ECB dominates today's agenda.

Equities continued to slump in the Asia-Pacific region, with many large markets off more than 1%, led by Australia's more than 2% decline.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index snapped a three-day slide today with most markets moving higher, led by a 1% gain in Australia.

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Once we factored in the recent market decline and recalibrated our return expectations for the five-year period, forecasts for most asset classes, especially the riskier ones, were not all that differ

The US dollar is continuing to recover after hitting new lows earlier in the week. It's lower against all the major currencies and most of the emerging markets.

The S&P 500 share index has gained around 50% from its March 23 low of 2237, although the sharpest appreciation was already realized by June.

Six of eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through August 31, 2020. The top performer is China's Shanghai with a gain of 11.33%.

Global manufacturing PMI at highest since November 2018 as production upturn gathers momentum. Upturn led by Brazil, the UK, and Germany.

Global markets, as represented by MSCI All-Country World Index, or ACWI, were up 6.1% in August led by Japan (catch-up performance after having lagged in July) and U.S.

Drawing parallels between the Mississippi Bubble and today's volatility. We enter the second half of 2020 in an economic contraction, leading us to wonder if we have entered a real recovery or just a

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Six of eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through August 25, 2020. The top performer is China's Shanghai with a gain of 10.60%.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index had reached seven-month highs on Tuesday, but Japan, China, and Australian stocks saw modest profit-taking today.

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