UPV News and Press, ProShares Ultra FTSE Europe From 09/12/21

The US employment data and the ECB meeting are behind us, and the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, and Norway's Norges Bank lie ahead. The general sense one gets by surveying the recent string of data is that economic activity has downshifted. With most of the rece...

The focus in the US shifts from the labor market to pricing pressures. EU economic and financial affairs ministers are meeting in Slovenia. The meeting concludes on Saturday, September 11. The UK releases August unemployment claims and the unemployment rate on Tuesday. For f...

Nearly 11 million U.S. jobs available, new report shows. ECB announces slowdown in monthly bond purchases. Is the global economic recovery still on track? For further details see: A Worker's Market: U.S. Job Openings Hit All-Time High

The ECB reduced PEPP purchases without causing a hawkish reaction. Its secret? Fanning hopes of more easing in December. We think an acceleration of APP is now the market’s base case, thus putting carry traders in the driving seat. Core rates should tread water from here, u...

We stay tactically overweight European equities with two key events on the horizon: a European Central Bank meeting and the German election. U.S. jobs growth in August was far below expectations. Yet, we caution that seasonality could be at play and a revision upwards is possible. ...

To date, 2021 has been as almost good as it gets for equity investors. Any slowdown in growth has yet to feed into consensus earnings forecasts which have continued to increase over the summer. Investors have few high-yielding alternatives for as long as real and nominal bond yiel...

Green issuance remains a hot topic after the summer. This is not only as Germany launches a new 10Y today, but also as the EU prepares its entrance to the market to become a significant player. Supply also looms for USTs today, meaning they could remain in the driving seat a littl...

Despite the lowball jobs total on Friday, plenty of good news is buried in the small print, like massive revisions to the previous two months. In addition, Hurricane Ida may have suppressed reporting of August payroll data. There are some more clues in the ADP reported last Wednesday,...

The recovery of the European economies in the first eight months of this year from the pandemic-induced recession has been impressive. The rapid uptake of new work led to a marked increase in euro-area employment at one of the fastest rates in two decades. Economic growth in Europ...

USD finished last week on a soft note but steadied at the start of the week, edging higher against nearly all major currencies. The Australian and New Zealand dollars were the weakest, off about 0.3%. The JP Morgan Emerging Market Currency Index snapped a six-day rally, its longest in...