EFO News and Press, ProShares Ultra MSCI EAFE From 03/08/20

Investment thesis: the major international markets are still correction. While some may be forming bottoms, it's still way too early to think about taking a position in any region. On Monday, the OECD lowered its global growth estimate due to the coronavirus (emphasis added): On the...

Research  by the Brookings Institution and Financial Times shows that the global economy will be stuck in neutral for awhile, a situation called "synchronized stagflation" by Brookings' Eswar Prasad. More news on: Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF, iShares MSCI EAFE ETF, Gabelli E...

One of the striking features of equity returns over the past decade has been the marked underperformance of international equities. EFA has beaten SPY by more than 7% per year for the last decade. The advantage to SPY is only 3.5% per year over the past fifteen years, but this remains a substa...

By Johannes Eugster, Economist, Multilateral Surveillance Division, IMF Research Department; Florence Jaumotte, Deputy Division Chief, IMF's Research Department; Margaux MacDonald, Economist, Research Department of the IMF; and Roberto Piazza, Economist, Multilateral Surveillance Division, IM...

Elga explains what our new tracker of developed market earnings is telling us, and why our view on earnings is gloomier than the markets. We have created a new tool for tracking developed market ((DM)) earnings. Our new earnings tracker leverages our existing suite of macro indicators, inc...

By Stefan Hofrichter, CFA, Global Economist at Allianz Global Investors Has the global economy once again become overloaded with debt? More than 10 years on from the financial crisis – which was, at its core, a debt crisis – there are signs that indebtedness is reaching worri...