FEU News and Press, SPDR DJ STOXX 50 Etf From 01/30/19

Wednesday, January 30: Five things the markets are talking about The next U.S dollar move will depend on a plethora of factors from this week - investors are looking ahead to today's monetary policy announcement by the Fed (2:00 pm EDT), at which it is expected to leave interest rates unchan...

As the soft (EU-deal) Brexit or hard (no deal) Brexit deadline approaches at the end of March, one has to keep an eye on the euro and major European bond markets, since Brexit, by definition, has weakened the core of the European Union and the eurozone, even though technically Britain is not ...

European corporate bonds sold off late last year amid a broad risk-off environment. Most risk assets have recovered since. One of the surprising exceptions: BBB-rated European debt. We now see compelling relative value in this segment of the European credit market, though we maintain our neutr...

Compared to US Fed, ECB seems flat-footed as growth slows During the recent period of market volatility the US Fed has in our view successfully re-positioned itself on the dovish end of expectations, both in terms of interest rate and more recently balance sheet policy. The ECB in comparis...

By Bill Witherell, Ph.D. The latest economic indicators reveal that the economic slowdown in Europe persists. President Draghi of the European Central Bank (ECB) has underlined the continued weakness, expectations for softer near-term growth and downside risks. The International Monetary F...

Overview: The global capital markets are consolidating ahead of this week's big events, which include the FOMC meeting, US jobs, an important Brexit vote in the UK parliament, and the first look at Q4 EMU and US GDP. The US dollar is narrowly mixed. Equities are mostly lower. European benchm...

The release of disappointing flash Eurozone PMI data on the same day that the European Central Bank's Governing Council acknowledged that downside risks now prevail has focused minds on the health of the euro area economy. The new debate centres on how entrenched the recent slowdown is, and in...

Last week the focus was on Europe. Prospects of a delay in Brexit helped extend sterling's gains to 11-week highs. Disappointing flash PMI for the eurozone and a dovish Draghi pushed the euro below $1.13 for the first time since mid-December. Speculation that the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

These things are all related, not that they are in any way connected by conventional thoughts on the subject of the global economy. Two European officials are now on record hinting at an ECB "pause." There is one already underway in the US, Federal Reserve officials past and present debating...

In his first press conference of 2019, European Central Bank ((ECB)) President Mario Draghi said risks surrounding the eurozone growth outlook have shifted to the " downside " versus the " broadly balanced " risks he discussed just one month ago when the bank ended net asset purchases. P...