HFXE News and Press, IQ 50 Percent Hedged FTSE Europe ETF IndexIQ ETF Trust From 07/31/19

Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D. ©All Rights Reserved Introduction The economic prospects for the Eurozone are not good: slow growth, lagging investments and high unemployment levels. Projected GDP growth this year is projected at only 1.2% with unemployment for the region averaging 7.7%. ...

By Peter Vanden Houte , Chief Economist Belgium, Eurozone Although the eurozone economy is rapidly losing momentum, growth in 2020 might be supported by a higher number of working days. While insufficient to reverse the slowdown, extra working days are likely to add 0.2 percentage po...

By Andrew Mulliner, CFA The July 25 European Central Bank ((ECB)) meeting was billed as the most important ECB meeting of the last few years. Today's statement and press conference, read in isolation, mark a significant statement of intent regarding the ECB's willingness and ability to "do...

It is ironic that the setting for his speech was London . The UK, of course, never gave up the pound in favor of adopting the euro. Still, as the years drag on the biggest menace to Europe's common currency isn't a profligate Greek government nor the unfavorable productivity of Club Med. The ...

To be honest, I was not going to write any more articles this week. My wife has progressed so well in her recovery that the doctors gave us the "all-clear" to go on our scheduled annual family pilgrimage to Disney. So, we have spent this week visiting with Mickey Mouse. But, with the news th...

By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors In the aftermath of Thursday's abysmal German Ifo Business Climate Index survey, markets had slightly raised their expectations for a European Central Bank ((ECB)) rate cut Thursday. While the ECB President Mario Draghi failed to ...

Rick Rieder argues that anemic growth in Europe is a longstanding problem that today requires a bold solution. Institutionally, the ECB can offer potentially effective, if unconventional, help. A shorter version of this commentary appeared in the Financial Times on July 22, 2019. A spe...

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...