iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap ETF News

Wall Street saw mixed trading last week. Still, some ETFs recorded smart gains last week.

Water scarcity in Latin America is likely to intensify supply chain and operational disruptions, regulatory risks, and economic losses for businesses during the next five years. In Brazil, hydropower

Central banks across emerging markets have reacted to elevated inflation by significantly tightening monetary policy, in some cases, well ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Ban

Wall Street was downbeat last week with the S&P 500 losing about 3.4%, the Dow Jones shedding 1.4%, the Nasdaq retreating 5.7%, and the Russell 2000 falling about 2.6%.

An ideological shift in a divided country. Brazil is South America's leading economy and a supermarket for the world.

A 10X story unfolding in Brazil?

EWZS invests in small-cap Brazilian equities. The fund has performed relatively well in 2022, but I think the outperformance will start to become short-lived.

Brazil's Bovespa stock index has gained 10% this year, while the S&P 500 is down 25%.

The first-round outcome is likely to buoy Bolsonaro, whose showing was better than polling had indicated. Lula has not specified how he would reduce Brazil's large current structural fiscal deficit or

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the first-round against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro's - neither candidate captured more than 50% of the vote, so there will be a runoff on October 30. Bolsonaro has improve

These ETF areas won in the third quarter of 2022.

Economies of Latin America and Caribbean have continued their strong post-pandemic rebound, but the winds are shifting as global financial conditions are tightening and commodity prices are reversing

The Brazilian market in general and the small-cap echelon represented by EWZS, in particular, have seen robust gains this year, in sharp contrast to the struggling U.S. bellwether indices. The Brazili

Wall Street witnessed its worst performance in Q1 in two years due to the Russia-Ukraine war, red-hot inflation and rising-rate worries after an upbeat 2021.

EWZS, usually showing wider fluctuations and being less politically affected, is currently one of the most promising indexes for investment in the LATAM region.