BBEU News and Press, JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe From 06/10/19

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. - George Eliot The Romans and their empire was at its height in 117 CE. It was the most extensive political and...

(Source: ECB , caption and editing by the Author) For those who believe that the ECB will be forced into monetary policy easing again soon, the latest mid-year Financial Stability Review has come just at the right time. It may also have come just in time for the new Chief Economist Phil...

Europe: The Week Ahead (June 3-7) The National Bank of Serbia will decide on its key policy rate in the week ahead amid rising inflation pressures in the country, as well as reignited tensions with Kosovo. At its previous meeting in early May, the southeast Balkan nation’s central...

By Sonal Desai, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income What's the investment lesson in Europe's recent parliamentary elections? Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai says it's differentiation. Read more of what's on her mind about this topic....

By Paolo Pizzoli , Senior Economist, EMU, Italy, Greece Despite reassuring comments from Matteo Salvini, the extremely polarised result of the European election in principle increases political uncertainty, in our view. The chances that the League could eventually decide to cash in and g...

The European Central Bank continues to disproportionately inflate the debt bubble of the Eurozone, while the economic slowdown of the main European economies worsens. What was designed as a tool for governments to buy time in order to carry out structural reforms and reduce imbalances, has bec...

While everyone is focused on the Chinese "Game of Thrones," with the United States, I am not. The tariff wars could go on for months, if not years. While it is true that China has the second largest economy, it is 41% smaller than the United States. We can withstand the heat much better and fo...

There are no bullets, but plenty of verbal projectiles being fired. "More Europe" has dwindled to a pipe-dream shared by Mr. Macron and Ms. Merkel and few others. The notion of a European Parliament having sway over each of the 27 nations in the European Union is about to be dismantled, in my ...

Elga suggests a few investment options that may benefit from a pick-up in European growth and any decline in geopolitical concerns. We continue to prefer a "barbell" approach to risk-taking in the late-cycle stage: quality stocks, income-generating bonds and emerging markets. And there a...

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late - Bob Dylan I am standing on the Watchtower now. I am peering intently at the European election, w...