GREK News and Press, Global X MSCI Greece From 01/13/23

Summary The Greek economy has done much to move out of its critical situation, observed about 12 years ago. Today, the economy is reaping the benefits of the structural reforms and fiscal tightening. The country is expecting lower than average inflation, higher than average GDP grow...

Summary Markets around the world continued to be disappointing in Q3. The challenging global environment leaves investors looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. Despite the positive market reaction, we expect a gradual recession in the US and Europe in the first half of 202...

Summary Both the Empire Manufacturing Survey and Philly Fed business outlook are expected to remain in contraction territory. Earnings season heats up as we hear from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, and Tesla. Japan may need to intervene in the FX market again as the ...

Summary Equities around the world tumbled in one of the more challenging periods in this cycle, with the MSCI All Country World Index (MXWD) posting losses of -15.66%. Challenges abounded in markets around the world, but these were not limited only to emerging markets. Challen...

European debt ratios have barely budged since 2012. Some Eurozone countries, including Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain have spent the past decade deleveraging and their debt ratios have plunged. Part of the reason there has been no debt crisis in Europe over the past...

The rise in bond spreads in most eurozone countries could be a problem. Nevertheless, the long period of extremely low interest rates and the very gradual rollover of public debt give governments some leeway, even if spreads rise further. That said, any reduction in economic growt...

Capital Product Partners ended 2021 by acquiring six LNG vessels, which has transformed their partnership. They subsequently increased their distributions by 50% in early 2022 with plans to continue growing them higher in tandem with their earnings. This points to higher distribut...

Risk-off sentiment prevailed in Q1 2022 as geopolitical tensions flared and the Omicron variant became a stumbling block for many countries. The U.S.-based S&P 500 decreased by 4.6% in Q1 2022, outperforming both the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and MSCI All Country World Index. ...

The global central bank community has been wrong on inflation. Euro zone inflation rose to a new record high last month, defying expectations for a big drop and piling pressure on the European Central Bank to finally admit that price growth is not as temporary and benign as it has lon...

The past week has been dominated by Omicron news as we all try to piece together the limited information we have and determine what it all means for the coming months. The RBA and BoC both hold meetings next week and will likely be armed with little more information than OPEC+ had on ...