IEUR News and Press, iShares Core MSCI Europe From 01/29/24

2024-01-29 05:42:16 ET The European Union is planning to shut off funds to Hungary if it blocks fresh aid to Ukraine at a summit this week, according to a document prepared by EU officials and seen by Financial Times. The "nuclear option" of kicking Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbá...

2024-01-27 09:15:00 ET Summary The coming weeks will likely continue the correction of the trends that began last month. Official comments and some high-frequency economic data have encouraged participants to rein in their expectations, reducing the odds of a rate cuts in Q1 and p...

2024-01-27 09:15:00 ET Summary The coming weeks will likely continue the correction of the trends that began last month. Official comments and some high-frequency economic data have encouraged participants to rein in their expectations, reducing the odds of a rate cuts in Q1 and p...

2024-01-27 00:12:00 ET Summary U.S. markets are trading at record highs. What's driving the gains? What is the breadth looking like? What the latest earnings season is telling us about equities. U.S. markets have been trading in record territory recently. However, ...

2024-01-25 23:45:00 ET Summary The early PMI data for January signalled a marked cooling of inflation pressures in the US economy, in turn linked to a waning of elevated price growth in the services economy. The latest price data from the PMI point to inflation falling below the F...

2024-01-25 18:50:00 ET Summary The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged, without conveying any urgency to start cutting rates in the next few months. It seems most likely that June or July would be the preferred time to start cutting rates. Markets in Europe hav...

2024-01-25 07:30:00 ET Summary The US dollar is trading mostly quietly in narrow ranges against the G10 currencies ahead of the ECB's President Lagarde's press conference. Most of the emerging market currencies are a little firmer, but not the Mexican peso or Chinese yuan. The...

2024-01-25 00:19:00 ET Summary The fourth quarter of 2023 was a more favorable environment for active managers in the UK, Europe, Emerging Markets, U.S. Small Cap and Listed Infrastructure, while being more challenging for U.S. Large Cap, Global, Global ex-U.S., Japan, Australia, Cana...

2024-01-24 10:20:00 ET Summary Business activity in the euro area fell at the slowest rate for six months in January, according to provisional PMI survey data. The PMI in fact suggests that the Eurozone is enduring its deepest contraction since 2013 (if early pandemic months are e...

2024-01-24 09:18:00 ET Summary The eurozone economy continues to trend around 0% growth and there are no signs of any imminent recovery. Price pressures are still increasing for the service sector, which provides another argument for the ECB not to cut before June. The PMI con...