EEA News and Press, The European Equity Fund Inc. From 07/23/20

David Zahn, CFA, FRM, Head of European Fixed Income, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income After much debate, the ink is now dry on Europe's €750 billion coronavirus fiscal rescue package, initially proposed in May. David Zahn, our Head of European Fixed Income, says it marks a strong aff...

The "European Project" was designed with something like the current crisis in mind. The adoption of a common currency was just the first, politically easiest, step in a process that would eventually - its architects hoped - culminate in something like the United States, where a bunch of diff...

Markets reacted positively to the news that the EU has reached a historic $2 trillion deal to rebuild its economy and there’s talk of this being Europe’s “Hamilton moment,” but political and structural realities may prevent it from ever being truly united, Ed...

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Jens Van 't Klooster is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and is also a member of the research group, A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt at the University of Amsterdam. Jens has recently coauthored an article titled *The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the Europea...

Research reveals that European central banks have prepared a new international gold standard. Since the 1970s, policies that paved the way for an equitable and durable monetary system have gradually been implemented. In my view, the current fiat international monetary system is ending - unco...

Italy had been one of hardest hit countries, if not the worst, for a good while. For months rather than weeks, life was shut down in an effort to get ahead of COVID-19 while it ravaged seemingly unchecked. It became a buzzword of sorts, the name of the nation synonymous with the pandemic itse...

By Daniel Lacalle The measures implemented by governments in the eurozone have one common denominator: a massive increase in debt from governments and the private sector. Loans lead the stimulus packages from Germany to Spain. The objective is to give firms and families some leverage to ...

PMI surveys ask respondents to report on monthly changes in key business metrics, such as production, new orders, employment and prices. Estimating what the resulting survey indicators imply for actual changes in official economic data is not always straightforward, but by using historical com...

JPMorgan says while the trade-off between virus-containment and near-term growth is present everywhere, the tension is diminished across much of Europe due to the success in reducing the outbreak and limiting its reemergence. More news on: Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF, iShares MSCI Germany ETF...