ADRU News and Press, BLDRS Europe 100 ADR Index Fund From 02/16/20

Investors buoyed by apparent deceleration It's been an eventful start to the year and not exactly in the way than anyone would have anticipated even two months ago. Once again, once the initial panic has passed, investors have taken the spread of COVID-19 in their stride, a little too much...

The aim of macroeconomic investment analysis In order to invest in something, we've got to decide what to, actually, invest in. Something so simple that it's a tautology, of course. Macroeconomic analysis can't actually tell us what we should invest in, specifically. What it can do is te...

Originally posted on January 27, 2020 Mary-Catherine Lader: Since the Global Financial Crisis, major central banks like the Federal Reserve in the United States and the European Central Bank in Europe have taken unprecedented steps to support the record-long economic expansion. Short-ter...

By Robert Christian, Co-Head of Research and Investment Management, K2 Advisors; Brooks Ritchey, Co-Head of Investment Research and Management K2 Advisors Pricing dislocations in Europe, performance dispersion across the credit spectrum and shifts in the political landscape should likely ...

By Katrina Dudley, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Mutual Series Although European equities performed well in 2019, there’s still a significant value and performance gap compared to US stocks, according to Franklin Mutual Series Portfolio Manager Katrina Dudley. Here, she gives r...

Originally published on January 28, 2020 By Alan Bartlett, President, Chief Investment Officer, Templeton Global Equity Group and Antonio (Tony) Docal, CFA, Director of Portfolio Management, Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst, Templeton Global Equity Group Equities saw strong 2019 per...

"You've got to pick up every stitch Oh no, must be the Season of the Witch" - Season of the Witch Politics is always part of the markets. Each day, each hour, they wind their tentacles into just how the markets are behaving. However, most of the time, they take a second seat to economic ...

Overview The spread of the coronavirus and the lockdown in the epicenter in China has again sapped the risk-taking appetite in the capital markets. Asia is bearing the brunt of the adjustment. Tomorrow starts China's week-long Lunar New Year celebration when markets will be closed, which may...

This was a somewhat light week of international news. There were, however, three regions that issued some key data. Chinese GDP increased by 6.1% in the latest quarter. This continues the moderating trend that we've seen in China for the last few years. The same report noted that indus...

The ECB's got a problem here When everything fell apart in 2008 and 2009, the central banks of the world decided to use monetary policy to sort varied economies out. OK, that worked. The European Central Bank was slow to the game, and that held the eurozone economy back. But, now, the ECB'...