EEA News and Press, The European Equity Fund Inc. From 05/03/20

Investment thesis: Most of the markets are still far too speculative to make any kind of investment. We're starting to get the economic reports about the severity of the damage and its severe. However, the China and Brazil trades from last week are still attractive for now. The latest Mark...

Well, the story is beginning to come out. The world economy has taken a big hit! On Wednesday, we got the news that the US economy had dropped by 4.8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2020. On Thursday, we got the news that the eurozone fell by an even larger ...

Overview: The retreat in US stocks yesterday, coupled with disappointing earnings news, has sent equity markets lower today. However, the May Day holiday has closed most markets, warning of spill-over at the start of next week, though China's markets are closed through next Tuesday and Japan...

By Darren Williams The coronavirus has exposed the European Union's (EU's) fault lines. For now, European Central Bank ((ECB)) bond purchases should hold things together. But ultimately, national governments will need to make some tough decisions to secure the EU's future. The EU's inter...

Overview: The dollar is lower across the board as dealers attribute the selling to month-end pressures ahead of the FOMC today and ECB tomorrow and long-holiday weekend for many. Japan's Golden Week holiday has already begun. Despite the loss in US equities yesterday, despite the higher open...

As European countries that moved into lockdown are slowly opening up, Ed Harrison thinks that sentiment is positive around the potential for economic rebirth and said he believes that Europe may fare better than the US during today’s Real Vision Daily Briefing. Overall Europe lo...

Overview The reversal in US equities yesterday set the stage for today's losses. All the Asia-Pacific bourses fell today but Australia. For the week, the regional index is off more than 2%. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 was flat for the week coming into today's sessions. It is off around 0.5%...

Money creation always does lead to inflation One claim that has been put forward about quantitative easing is that it will inevitably create inflation. To which the usual response is that it's been a decade so far and there's no sign of it, so what's the problem? The correct answer here is...

The European Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: EEA) (the “Fund”) announced today that the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for the Fund will be held at 10:30 a.m., Eastern time on June 25, 2020 at the offices of DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc., 875 Third Avenue, New York, New Yo...

Overview: A 9.8% contraction of the Chinese economy in Q1 did not derail investor optimism today, which saw Asia Pacific stocks rally strongly after Gilead (GILD) reported very preliminary positive testing of its drug to fight the coronavirus and plans to re-open are developing. Japan's Nikk...