SPEU News and Press, SPDR® Portfolio Europe ETF From 02/23/24

2024-02-23 07:30:00 ET Summary Manufacturing output fell across the eurozone for an eleventh consecutive month in February. Employment increased for a second month running in February after two months of decline at the end of 2023. Growth of average input costs across producer...

2024-02-21 08:25:00 ET Summary The dollar is trading quietly after being sold yesterday. The offshore Chinese yuan is firmer for the sixth consecutive session. The CSI 300 rallied four consecutive sessions before the Lunar New Year holiday and is up in each of the three sessio...

2024-02-20 11:12:00 ET Summary The decline in negotiated wage growth from 4.7 to 4.5% year-on-year confirms expectations that wage growth is no longer accelerating. But it is too small to open the door to an ECB rate cut in March. With wage growth expected to trend down carefu...

2024-02-18 21:32:00 ET Summary It is that after trying to figure out whether the economy and markets would achieve a soft landing in the wake of the post-Covid tightening cycle, no one quite knows what to think now that the soft landing appears to have arrived. By and large, leadi...

2024-02-17 08:05:00 ET Summary The US January CPI and PPI came in stronger than expected and this extended the recovery in US interest rates. The yen has fallen for seven consecutive weeks and the threat of intervention by MOF officials had little sustained impact. China retur...

2024-02-17 05:13:05 ET Summary January's CPI data confirm that inflation is anything but dead and buried. It's worth noting that despite January's notable 0.8% rise, Import Prices were still down 1.3% YOY. Medical Care Services gained 0.7%, with Health Insurance prices jumping...

2024-02-17 02:10:00 ET Summary Our annual global real GDP forecast for 2024 has been revised up from 2.3% to 2.5%. Global PMI data continues to point to a gradual improvement in economic conditions. Core inflation rates have continued to fall but the outlook is more unce...

2024-02-14 07:30:00 ET Summary The dollar was driven higher, and it is stabilizing today, though the euro and sterling extended their losses, most of the other G10 currencies did not. After the yen's six-week slide did not elicit a response from Japanese officials, yesterday's dro...

2024-02-14 05:37:35 ET Summary The EU economy experienced near-zero economic growth in 2023, and more of the same seems to be on the way this year. Metrics that make up GDP, such as industrial production and retail sales, and their underlying factors suggest that the degrowth mode...

2024-02-13 00:40:00 ET Summary Bull markets naturally climb a “wall of worry,” and the latest worries center around escalating wars, the presidential race, and delays in Fed rate cuts. Shipping disruptions in the Red Sea are not adversely impacting the U.S., but they...