EZU News and Press, iShares MSCI EMU ETF From 06/04/19

Overview The global capital markets are stabilizing today after taking a body blow of broadening the use of US tariffs (in migration dispute with Mexico), threatening the ratification of NAFTA 2.0, still-escalating hostile rhetoric between the US and China, and the threat of anti-trust actio...

The EU parliamentary elections held last weekend delivered few surprises. Support for populist parties across the EU rose from around 22% in 2014 to around 28% currently, broadly in line with predictions from pre-election polls. The ranking of key groups in the European Parliament also looks t...

Europe: The Week Ahead (June 3-7) The National Bank of Serbia will decide on its key policy rate in the week ahead amid rising inflation pressures in the country, as well as reignited tensions with Kosovo. At its previous meeting in early May, the southeast Balkan nation’s central...

The tariff truce came to an abrupt end via presidential tweets on May 3. Until those tweets, US officials had been indicating that progress was being made and there was hope that at the sidelines of the G20 meeting that Trump and Xi would agree on a trade deal. The end of the tariff truce mark...

The S&P 500 is down about 4% so far in May (through last Friday) mostly due to trade tensions with China, but those tensions were loosened somewhat on Friday after U.S. officials eased some of the trade restrictions on China's 5G giant, Huawei, granting them a 90-day temporary extension to...

Overview: The US announcement to lay a 5% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico (starting June 10) until it stops the flow of "illegal migrants" spurred sharp losses in the Mexican peso and general risk-off move that strengthened the yen. The tariffs are set to rise every month until reachi...

By Sonal Desai, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income What's the investment lesson in Europe's recent parliamentary elections? Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai says it's differentiation. Read more of what's on her mind about this topic....

The Trump administration would be making a grave mistake to gloss over the major political setbacks for the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany in last Sunday's European parliamentary elections. This is especially true given that the world economic recovery is threatened by worsening U.S.-Chin...

By Bethany Payne The European Parliament elections on May 23 produced damaging results in varying degrees for both the European Parliament and the main parties in the UK. Bethany Payne, a Global Bond Portfolio Manager, explains the main points and provides a brief assessment of the impact...

By Bert Colijn , Senior Economist, Eurozone Economic sentiment in the eurozone rises from 103.9 to 105.1 in May and lending picked up in April. While still in line with weaker growth for Q2, it does put the growth outlook in a somewhat better light This bounceback in eurozone sentiment co...