HFXE News and Press, IQ 50 Percent Hedged FTSE Europe ETF IndexIQ ETF Trust From 08/15/19

What is nothing? What comes to mind when you imagine nothing? The moment we try to imagine what nothing is, we fail, because nothing cannot be envisioned. There is nothing to envision or ponder or even think about. Nothing is no thing . Yes, the point above is tedious, but the value of noth...

Scanning the global markets for value always makes me stop in Europe. Using the S&P 500 ([[SPY]]) as our reference, we get a P/E ratio of 20.84, a P/BV of 3.27, and a distribution yield of 1.56%. Table 1 - Portfolio characteristics of the S&P 500 ETF (Source: iShares ) Now, lo...

By Jeff Weniger The euro won't stop chopping sideways. Its quiet drift downward has persisted since spring 2018, but it would be a fool's errand to extrapolate boring action forever. The currency can snap violently, and I think the push will be southward. Figure 1: EURUSD There were ...

I am getting prepared, you see. September is just around the corner and it will be the last European Central Bank meeting presided over by Mario Draghi, the Superman of Europe. My sense is that it is going to be one last, "Whatever it takes," as virtually all of the economies of Europe are hav...

Musings July 2019 was another month that was hard to predict as the market held its breath for the Fed rate decision. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I again underperformed the S&P 500 (1.4% vs -0.8%), but this was my first month of splitting directions with the market in...

The European Economies It's not really valid to talk of a European economy, that being exactly the problem there is with the euro. Having the one currency means that monetary conditions must be the same across those different European economies. An example of this is that the UK economy seem...

By David F. Hoffman, CFA In June of 1984, I was a young portfolio manager finding myself at odds with the wisdom of the day. Yields on 30-year Treasuries had rebounded from 10% to 14% as inflation had bounced from 2.5% and was running at just over 4%. The leading sages of the day were very...

A central banker's nightmare is losing control of inflation expectations. Whereas decades ago, the challenge facing major central banks was reining in overly high inflation expectations - a process that ushered in central banks' independence and inflation targets - the European Central Bank's ...

By Bert Colijn , Senior Economist, Eurozone Q2 GDP growth in the eurozone slows to 0.2%. Clearly, the economy is expanding at a slow cruising speed that seems too low for inflation to increase quickly towards the ECB target. And that gives the Bank more ammunition to act in the autum...

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%. ...