EEA News and Press, The European Equity Fund Inc. From 01/28/21

Rising shipping costs and lengthening delivery times have reignited the discussion about a return of reflationary forces. Business surveys in the eurozone industrial sector have started to point to some upward pressure on factory gate prices and potentially core goods prices. Howe...

In Australian equities, nearly all managers remain positive on the outlook for the global economy. With the reopening trade in mind, value managers in Canada are bullish on oil stocks. With technology sector valuations at record highs, U.S. small cap growth managers have been rota...

Another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity in early 2021. We anticipate that new COVID-19 infections will decline in the months ahead as vaccines will become more widely available. A last-minute trade agreement at the close of 2020 averted the tail risks...

Europe is clearly at risk of a double-dip recession, albeit a modest one. The IHS Markit Flash Eurozone Composite PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) clocked in at 47.5, down from December's 49.1. The UK is in a worse situation, at an even greater risk than the eurozone of a double-dip re...

Things aren’t getting better globally in terms of controlling the virus. Recent economic data has shown signs of the damage being wrought by the rise in COVID-19 infections. I expect markets to continue to move in expectations of a robust recovery later in 2021 when vaccine...

China is in a stronger position at the beginning of 2021 than it was a year ago. The European Union and the United Kingdom start the year afresh following the conclusion of their terms of divorce at the very last hour in December. US corporate earnings are expected to rise by a bi...

The new Covid outbreak, social restrictions, business closures, and lockdowns render most of the upcoming data mostly irrelevant. Market measures of US inflation expectations have risen, and the Democratic Party securing the Senate (50/50 but the Vice President breaks ties) has booste...

The US is supposed to be entering the peak of the holiday COVID surge, but it could get much worse now that more states have found the highly contagious UK virus variant. China inflation expected to move back above 0.0%, mostly due to increasing commodity prices. Japan Machinery O...

Short-time work schemes do what's on the ticket. Broad measures of unemployment show strong recovery after lockdown 1. Is this first wave impact too good to be true? Unprecedented crisis - also for the labour market. For further details see: Eurozone: A Labour Market...

Global stocks rose during 2020, fueled by massive monetary policy efforts from central banks and fiscal policy support aimed at preventing a total economic collapse under the coronavirus pandemic. For most of the year, growth stocks outperformed value by a wide margin. A broadenin...