HFXE News and Press, IQ 50 Percent Hedged FTSE Europe ETF IndexIQ ETF Trust From 01/23/20

"You've got to pick up every stitch Oh no, must be the Season of the Witch" - Season of the Witch Politics is always part of the markets. Each day, each hour, they wind their tentacles into just how the markets are behaving. However, most of the time, they take a second seat to economic ...

Overview The spread of the coronavirus and the lockdown in the epicenter in China has again sapped the risk-taking appetite in the capital markets. Asia is bearing the brunt of the adjustment. Tomorrow starts China's week-long Lunar New Year celebration when markets will be closed, which may...

This was a somewhat light week of international news. There were, however, three regions that issued some key data. Chinese GDP increased by 6.1% in the latest quarter. This continues the moderating trend that we've seen in China for the last few years. The same report noted that indus...

The ECB's got a problem here When everything fell apart in 2008 and 2009, the central banks of the world decided to use monetary policy to sort varied economies out. OK, that worked. The European Central Bank was slow to the game, and that held the eurozone economy back. But, now, the ECB'...

For anyone thinking the global economy is turning around, it's not the kind of thing you want to hear. Germany has been Ground Zero for this globally synchronized downturn. That's where it began, meaning first showed up, all the way back at the start of 2018. Ever since, the German economy has...

By Owain Johnson The European repo markets navigated the traditionally challenging end-of-year funding cycle in an atmosphere of relative calm. But repo market participants are unsure whether that calm will persist throughout 2020. A potential change of direction from new leadership at t...

In the past cycle, many practitioners have questioned the ability of the ECB to raise inflation. Figure 1 (left frame) shows that the market-implied measure of inflation expectations, the 5Y5Y inflation swap, has constantly been declining in the past cycle and is currently sitting at 1.3%, far...

By Judy Dempsey Boris Johnson's sweeping election victory brings clarity for Britain but not for Europe as it enters a decade of major geostrategic shifts. "Get Brexit done" was the slogan that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative party pitched during a short electio...

While sentiment has been at best mixed about the direction of the US economy the past few months, the European economy cannot even manage that much. Its most vocal proponent couldn't come up with much good to say about it - while he was on his way out the door . At his final press confere...

In the final weeks of the decade, equities around the globe have broken out to at least 52-week highs if not record highs as is the case for the S&P 500, and now the Eurozone Stoxx 600. As shown in the first chart below, the Eurozone Stoxx 600 - priced in local currency (euros) - has f...