What You Should Know:
- WisdomTree Investments sponsors the fund.
- CEW has an expense ratio of 0.55%.
- Constituent currencies include: Polish zloty 8.8%, Russian ruble 8.7%, South African rand 8.5%, Turkish new lira 8.4%, Brazilian real 8.4%, Chilean peso 8.3%, Mexican peso 8.3%, Malaysian ringgit 8.3%, Indian rupee 8.3%, South Korean won 8.1%, Indonesian rupiah 8.0% and Chinese yuan 8.0%.
- The fund is up 1.8% over the past month, up 8.0% over the last three months and up 7.8% year-to-date.
- The ETF is 2.5% above its 200-day exponential moving average.
- CEW has a distribution yield of 4.98%.
The Latest News:
- Emerging market currencies are rallying after the European Central Bank’s decision to inject liquidity into the Eurozone banking system.
- The increased liquidity devalues the euro currency against a basket of international currencies, making other currencies much more attractive.
- According to a new International Monetary Fund research paper, emerging markets should take greater action in using exchange rate intervention, especially when external economic shocks affect their currencies, reports Ian Talley for The Wall Street Journal.
- “If two policy instruments are available (the policy interest rate and foreign exchange market intervention), then they should be used in tandem to achieve both price-stability and exchange-rate objectives,” economists wrote in the paper.
- The economists also noted that since sustained exchange rate intervention is too costly, emerging economies should allow the currency to adjust freely during permanent market pressures.
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Max Chen contributed to this article.