CEE News and Press, The Central and Eastern Europe Fund Inc. From 12/19/19

The Central and Eastern Europe Fund, Inc. (NYSE: CEE), The New Germany Fund, Inc. (NYSE: GF) and The European Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: EEA) (each, a “Fund,” and collectively, the “Funds”) each announced today that its Board of Directors declared the distributions s...

The ECB's problem The only source of economic policy of any kind for the eurozone is the European Central Bank. Fiscal policy is still the preserve of the nation states. Therefore monetary policy has to carry the bag as it's the only integrated policy source there is. However, given that t...

Hindsight is 20-20, as we all know. Look around and forward vision for 2020 is cloudy at best, be it for geopolitics, economies, businesses or markets. Markets might look great having bounced back (through April from the sharp declines end of 2018 and then since October), due to corporate buyb...

As growth bottoms out and tail risks ease, attractive valuations support the case for emerging markets currencies. This edition of CIO Weekly Perspectives comes from guest contributors Rob Drijkoningen and Vera Kartseva of Neuberger Berman’s Emerging Markets Debt team. In mi...

Photo Source: REUTERS/Yuri Gripas. China's Vice Premier Liu He looks on during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 11, 2019. For the month, 61% of all closed-end funds (BATS: CEFS ) posted net-asset-value ((NAV))-b...

All the world's major equity regions continue to post year-to-date gains, but stocks in Eastern Europe/Russia, followed closely by US shares, are in the lead by a healthy margin, based on a set of exchanged-listed funds. Edging into the lead in recent days is Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)...

Global diversification across equity markets is a dud this year compared with a strategy of favoring American shares. Although all the world's major equity regions are reporting year-to-date gains, US shares continue to lead, in most cases by a wide margin, based on a set of exchange-traded pr...

Ukraine's global scale long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings raised to B from B- by S&P Global Ratings; national scale ratings to 'uaA' from 'uaBBB'. More news on: Central Europe&Russia Fund, Global news and forex, Read more ...

Over the past 30+ years since the introduction of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, investors have evolved from holding minimal positions in emerging markets funds to holding more substantial allocations. Additionally, the choice of investment options has evolved from broad-based emerging mar...

The US-China trade war is taking a toll on investor sentiment, but most of the blowback for world stock markets has been borne outside the US, based on year-to-date results for a set of exchange-listed products that represent the global economy's primary economic regions. The relative streng...