EZU News and Press, iShares MSCI EMU ETF From 07/26/19

By Ansh Chaudhary Boris Johnson was confirmed as the next prime minister of the U.K. Wednesday. His win makes a "no-deal" Brexit more likely, which could lead to tariffs, trade disruptions, and even a deep recession for Britain, according to the Associated Press . The International Mone...

By Kara Marciscano, CFA European equities had a strong start in the first half of 2019 (+16%). 1 WisdomTree views the recently announced slate of European Union ((EU)) leaders as a further positive catalyst for markets. Additionally, we believe the European Central Bank (ECB) is likely to...

We have closed our underweight in European equities and credit, and upgraded government bonds to overweight. The impetus? We see the European Central Bank ((ECB)) delivering fresh stimulus over coming months, against a backdrop of a stabilizing growth outlook and persistent inflation undershoo...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, global markets research, Robin Marshall, director, fixed income research ECB President Draghi recently stated his concerns about the slowdown in the eurozone economy and noted that the ECB still has plenty of scope to expand its QE asset purchase progra...

Overview: Comments underscoring the importance of acting preemptively by two Fed officials sent the dollar reeling and helped lift equities after the S&P fell to a two and a half week low. The decline in rates and the US shooting down of an Iranian drone in the Gulf helped spur gold to n...

Almost a year ago, we discussed " The European Bluff, Take I " around the ECB decision to stop injecting money to the European markets ( VGK , EZU , HEDJ , FEZ , IEUR , BBEU , IEV ) at the end of 2018. We wrote (in a handful of articles) that there's no way the ECB will be able to stay o...

Some of the euro area's junk-rated corporate debt is now trading at negative yields, and over 15% of near-junk debt is also charging the lenders to provide cash to financially weaker companies: Source: WSJ While the overall stock of negative-yielding debt (sovereign and corporate) is now...

By Bert Colijn , Senior Economist, Eurozone Industrial production is likely to have increased in May, but don’t let the numbers fool you. Without an improved trade outlook, manufacturing could be in for a weak second half of the year. As long as employment remains stable, howe...

In a one-chart summary, why euro has been a painfully failing experiment in monetary policy: The above chart shows the comparative in real GDP levels between the Great Depression in the U.S. (1929-1936) and the Great Recession in Greece (starting from 2008 with data through 2018, and then us...

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...