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By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: If governments aren't willing to enact fiscal stimulus, central banks may need to consider more hands-on ways to promote spending Last week, the European Central Bank ((ECB)) decided to take a significant ste...

The European Central Bank's Problem The setup of the eurozone means that there's no central control of fiscal policy. But there is, as there obviously will be in a monetary zone, central control of monetary policy. This means that said monetary policy is going to be floating over a variety o...

By Andrew Mulliner, CFA Andrew Mulliner, CFA, a Global Bonds Portfolio Manager, reflects on the European Central Bank’s decision to cut rates and bring back quantitative easing. Expectations were high coming into the European Central Bank (ECB) meeting on Thursday in spite o...

By Raoul Leering, Head of International Trade Analysis , and Timme Spakman, Economist, International Trade Analysis The outlook for world trade is moving from bad to worse. Although the direct effects of the trade war are somewhat smaller than previously expected, industrial production...

On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Head of AIS Business Solutions Sophie Antal Gilbert discussed the European Central Bank's ((ECB)) new stimulus package, positive developments in the China-U.S. trade war and the recent rise in v...

By Petr Krpata , CFA, Chief EMEA FX and IR Strategist, Antoine Bouvet , Senior Rates Strategist and Carsten Brzeski , Chief Economist ING Germany Given the chance that the ECB fails to match market expectations for easing policy, the balance of risks favours higher EUR/U...

We identified geopolitical risk as the key market driver in the second half of 2019 in our midyear investment outlook . The UK is the latest example, where deep divisions over a potential Brexit have unsettled the political landscape, paving the way for a broader set of potential outcomes...

The markets closed last week in a bullish mood on the news that (stop me if you've heard this one before) the US and China will be back at the negotiating table in October. You don't say! Oh but this time we have schedules and a list of attendees so it is totally different. h/t @StockCats ...

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes for the euro. Believe me, it will be enough. – Mario Draghi Seven years have passed since the famous “whatever it takes” speech held by Draghi in London. The Euro ( FXE ) and the Eurozone were in a death ...

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...