EZU News and Press, iShares MSCI EMU ETF From 07/14/19

Industrial production in the eurozone rose sharply in May, but survey data indicate that the improvement will be short-lived. Official Eurostat data showed industrial production surging 0.9% in May, rebounding after declines in the prior two months. The narrower definition of manufacturing o...

Overview: Higher than expected US CPI and the second tepid reception to a US bond auction this week pushed US yields higher and helped stall the equity momentum. Asia Pacific yields, especially in Australia and New Zealand, jumped 8-10 bp in response, and Spanish and Portuguese bonds bore th...

By Bill Witherell, Ph.D. Just days after US President Trump announced a ceasefire and resumption of trade negotiations with China, the US Trade Representative proposed new tariffs on 89 European Union ((EU)) goods worth $4 billion. These levies are in response to concerns about aircraft su...

The Basic British Problem The basic problem with the British economy at the moment in Brexit. When is the country going to leave the European Union? On what terms? Will it, actually, really leave? All of these lead to uncertainty and uncertainty can be a right killer for economic growth. So,...

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Overview Fed's Powell confirmed a Fed rate cut at the end of this month by warning that uncertainties since the June FOMC had "dimmed the outlook" and that muted price pressures may be more persistent. It ignited an equity and bond market rally (bullish steepening) while the dollar was sold....

Monetary policy since the GFC of 2008 has been characterised by the near-zero (and even negative) policy rates, negative bank rates, negative Government debt yields and rampant asset price inflation. The result has been zombification of the advanced economies. Here is the latest advanced est...

The Event The President of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, has fired the central bank Governor. As a result Turkish bond prices have slipped, yields have risen. The Lira has fallen on the FX exchanges, the stock market is slipping - all the signs of the markets thinking this is a bad idea. And it is ...

These macroeconomic numbers The reason we look at these varied macroeconomic statistics is that we want to know, divine, if and when the economy is going to turn. We know very well that we've not abolished the business cycle and quite clearly we want, as investors, to be differently orientat...

The very concept of the Eurozone is a difficult one Sure, it's the set of countries, economies, that use the same currency. And thus have the same central bank and the same base interest rates. The actual problem with the concept being that they're just not the same economy and are all worki...