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By Christopher Gannatti, CFA Lately, it has seemed easy to find reasons to avoid investing in European assets: There have been many important dates in the Brexit process. The dates seem to come and go, and no one has any clarity on exactly what will happen. Last year, a populist go...

They staked everything on inflation. In truth, central bankers had no other choice. Having backed themselves into such a narrow corner by doing the same thing over and over and over again, it was only going to be one or the other. Either it worked or for all time they would prove they really h...

The Eurozone Doomsday Clock seems to be permanently stuck at five minutes to Midnight. Whilst the ECB procrastinate about the normalization, in preparation for the next monetary policy expansion, the IMF is swiftly nudging perceptions towards what comes next. This brave new world must fi...

Overview: The five-day advance of the S&P 500 stalled yesterday and global equities are mixed today. Most Asian centers remain closed, Japan and some small markets were lower, while Taiwan, Australia, and India moved higher. The seven-day rally in Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is under th...

Germany is a tough one to get around. Argentina falls into a bad recession, you can get by believing that's not particularly unusual or interesting. If its neighbor Brazil becomes shaky, you can still chalk it up to EM volatility. Italy is Europe's perpetual basket case. China's a little more ...

Fourth-quarter volatility expanded the opportunity set for those looking for a deal By Mark McDonnell, CFA ® , Senior Equities Analyst in Equities The fourth quarter of 2018 was tough on investors in European equities, and uncertainty appears to be rising as we enter ...

Happy Year of the Pig! This week marks the start of China’s Spring Festival, during which an estimated 3 billion trips will be made using the country’s massive transportation network of roads and rail. That figure is a slight rise from the same period last year, despite slowing e...

The last eight years of euro's 20 years in existence have been a disaster for the thesis of economic convergence - the idea that the common currency is a necessary condition for delivering economic growth to the 'peripheral' euro area economies in the need of 'convergence' with the more advanc...

Overview: The rally in equities is threatening to pause today, even though the few markets open in Asia edged higher. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600, which has advanced in eight of the past ten sessions and six in a row, is seeing some profit-taking pressures. US shares are also trading heavie...

Weekly Market Review: The Fed signals a major change in approach at its January meeting By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Feb 4, 2019, in Market & Economic The biggest American football game of the year was played last night, and for the first three ...