A niche AI fund with almost no Nvidia is somehow lapping QQQ by a massive margin, and the reason why reveals a blind spot most investors have about where AI profits actually…
Semiconductor stocks just took a bruising, but the companies powering every major AI buildout are nowhere near done growing. Three ETFs offer very different ways to position for the rebound, and the…
Korea's country ETF booked triple-digit gains while most Asia funds left investors watching from the sidelines, and the same AI hardware boom that drove that run is quietly powering two other markets…
The supply chain shortage in Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), and more specifically, in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips is a big reason why the memory chip “Big 3”: SK Hynix,…
The 2026 rally in North Asian equities has been led by the two countries that fabricate the world’s most advanced semiconductors. The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSEARCA:EWY) is up 103% year…
Taiwan manufacturing capacity Taiwan is the world’s most critical semiconductor manufacturing hub. In 2025 its economy grew by 8.68% and it exported around $550B, growing at a staggering rate of 34% YoY.…
The iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWT) has done something most country funds rarely do: it has more than doubled in a year. Shares closed near $103 on May 29, up 103% over…
A $10,000 stake in the iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (NYSEARCA:EWT) on the last trading day of 2025 was worth about $16,178 five months later, after the fund rose from about $64 to…
Taiwan and South Korea sit at the center of the global chip supply chain, and three exchange-traded funds offer the most direct way to hold that exposure: the iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF…
Most semiconductor ETFs spread exposure across the US, Netherlands, and South Korea. EWT takes a different approach, putting you squarely in Taiwan, the island manufacturing the chips powering AI servers, smartphones, and…
ThinkstockChinese New Year is almost upon us. The new year is the Year of the Snake. Other nations with stock markets that celebrate Chinese New Year with multiday holidays include Macau, Malaysia,…
Today was one of the strangest days ever in the iShares MSCI Taiwan Index (NYSE: EWT) ETF. In fact, you rarely ever see such trading action as we saw today in any…
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