HFXE News and Press, IQ 50 Percent Hedged FTSE Europe ETF IndexIQ ETF Trust From 09/05/19

The hope in an arranged marriage is that people marry, and then fall in love. Sometimes that works, other times it doesn't. Two decades after inception, the eurozone countries' arranged marriage-type of union looks shaky at best, and now it is even more challenged by ongoing, global disruptive...

By David Zahn, CFA, Head of European Fixed Income, Senior Vice President, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group® As European investors and market practitioners return from their summer vacations and prepare for the final third of 2019, our Head of European Fixed Income David Zahn hig...

The Basic Brexit Problem Actually, there are two Brexit problems. One is the political one of should we go or should we not? I'm very biased upon this - Go! - but my own prejudices aren't a useful guide to investment. The second is the more important for us here. What is the effect of both B...

With Boris Johnson, the UK's new Prime Minister, having successfully maneuvered to prorogue Parliament this fall, a move which was approved by the Queen, there is now very little reason left to doubt that Britain intends to leave the EU on October 31, whether there is a deal in place or not. T...

At the next European Central Bank ((ECB)) policy meeting in September, it is expected to gently lower interest rates to ease the burden on a stagnant eurozone economy. However, previous long-term Quantitative Easing ((QE)) measures, along with a prolonged period of historically low interest...

Looming recession and negative yields, it was about time some people would bring two and two together. Much of European yields are in negative territory, meaning that European governments can get paid to borrow. At the same time, much of Europe is teetering on the brink of recession, so here...

By Thorsten Polleit Those who had hoped that things could not get worse with the monetary policy of the European Central Bank ((ECB)) have been proven wrong. At its last meeting on 25 July 2019, the Governing Council of the ECB kept interest rates unchanged: the main refinancing rate was k...

As we discussed in last week's blog "Race to the Bottom", traditional means of stimulating economic growth are no longer working and are, in fact, backfiring from their real intent. Governments need to move away from reliance on any additional monetary stimulus, which clearly is not working, a...

Market volatility came back this week in a big way. On today's episode of Market Week in Review, Head of AIS Business Solutions Sophie Antal Gilbert and Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman dig in on trade, global bond markets and eurozone economic data. The trade war story is st...

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...