SPEU News and Press, SPDR® Portfolio Europe ETF From 05/03/24

2024-05-03 06:50:00 ET Summary The US dollar is trading with a softer bias ahead of the US jobs report, with recent survey data warning of downside risks. The Norwegian krone is the strongest G10 currency after the central bank delivered a hawkish hold on rates. Asian equities...

2024-05-02 07:00:00 ET Summary It appears that with the market challenging Monday's intervention, Japanese officials entered the market shortly after the US equity market closed yesterday, as the Asia Pacific session go underway and sold dollars again. The offshore yuan is trading...

2024-05-01 12:30:00 ET Summary Google searches of the term “stagflation” went up dramatically last week, but I don’t believe we’re seeing stagflation in the US. The recovery in eurozone services appears to have legs, in my opinion, as we are finally see...

2024-05-01 12:00:00 ET Summary Stronger-than-anticipated economic data released during the first quarter led to a significant downward shift in market expectations for 2024 rate cuts. While equity markets were mostly unfazed by this change in expectations, fixed income markets exp...

2024-05-01 11:10:00 ET Summary Eurozone GDP grew by 0.3% in the first quarter, and that’s the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2022 when the energy crisis started. While there is no vigorous rebound in the making, the eurozone economy has clearly entered a better...

2024-05-01 06:50:00 ET Summary The BOJ projected yesterday that commercial banks' deposits with it likely dropped by JPY7.56 trillion. The dollar gradually edged higher yesterday, and by the end of the North American session, it had recovered more than half of the intervention-ins...

2024-04-30 08:10:00 ET Summary Stronger-than-expected eurozone GDP strengthened the sense that a nascent recovery may be taking hold and has given the euro a bid in the European morning. Japanese stocks rallied strong coming back from the long weekend. The euro remained within...

2024-04-29 07:35:00 ET Summary The dollar soared to almost JPY160.20 before falling sharply to JPY154.55 and then rebounding to almost JPY156.00. The euro reached almost $1.0755 before turning lower ahead of the weekend, the highest level in slightly more than two weeks. Emerg...

2024-04-28 04:30:00 ET Summary The backing up of US rates did not lift the dollar broadly as it appeared to have done previously. The Bank of Japan had an opportunity to have protested the yen's weakness more adamantly but did not do so. The FOMC meeting concludes a couple of ...

2024-04-25 15:15:00 ET Summary The first quarter was a more favorable environment for active managers in U.S. Large Cap, U.S. Small Cap, Emerging Markets, the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada, Long/Short and Global Real Estate, while being more challenging for Global, Global ex-U.S., Jap...