SPEU News and Press, SPDR® Portfolio Europe ETF From 05/10/24

2024-05-10 09:40:00 ET Summary With at least 65 countries heading to the polls this year, trade, foreign policy and regional economics could have an outsized influence on equity indexes. On top of the U.S., the U.K. and Europe are also holding general elections alongside Mexico an...

2024-05-09 08:45:00 ET Summary Worldwide PMI survey data compiled by S&P Global showed average prices charged for goods and services have risen globally at the slowest rate for three months in April. With the PMI data tending to lead changes in the annual rate of global consum...

2024-05-08 01:35:00 ET Summary At 50.3, the Global Manufacturing PMI, sponsored by JPMorgan and compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, remained above the 50.0 neutral mark. Despite the cooling in the rate of improvement, the latest data signal an ongoing steadying of the ...

2024-05-04 11:10:00 ET Summary The US economy's resilience and stickiness of price pressures have led to a reassessment of Fed policy, causing a rise in US interest rates and a stronger dollar. Concerns about US fiscal policy and the stronger dollar have heightened among countries...

2024-05-04 05:00:00 ET Summary The Japanese currency had weakened back to 157.94 by Wednesday, before a second round of intervention pushed the dollar/yen down to 153. The Nasdaq 100 traded up to 17,800 in Monday trading - then dropped 2.9% to Wednesday morning lows. Any pushb...

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...