BlackRock's ( BLK +0.7% ) closes and liquidates eight of its U.S. iShares ETFs, with five of them currency hedged, as part of its ongoing review of it product lineup. More news on: BlackRock, Inc., iShares Trust - iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Spain ETF, iShares Trust - iShares Currency...
The European Central Bank did not reduce its policy rate of interest, something that many investors and analysts expected them to do. The expected reduction was not great, only 10 basis points, but a reduction was expected, nonetheless. Jack Ewing writes in the New York Times, “T...
( Image Source ) Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - Another quarter has come to an end, and with it, one of the best years for investors! The S&P 500 was up over 30%, while the ten-year trailing return rose to nearly 13.5% on annualized basis. The fact that the markets did so as earnings stagn...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - At first glance, it looks like the bulls are back in charge of their own destiny. The tug of war between the Federal Reserve and the President was seemingly resolved in the 3 rd quarter by the Fed cutting rates for the first time in over a decade as a weakening ec...
( Source: Brexit (maybe) ahead ) Recently Seeking Alpha published a Q&A feature regarding Brexit, and asked me to participate. In particular, this involved possible scenarios affecting every investor. The whole project was structured as Q&A. ( Brexit Q&A feature published b...
Today, September 26, 2019, we've reassembled our Brexit panel and have prepared an updated roundtable Q&A. These freshly updated views are available to PRO+ Subscribers here. Given so many twists and turns in the Brexit proceedings over the past 3 years, Seeking Alpha has surveyed ...
The European Central Bank continues to disproportionately inflate the debt bubble of the Eurozone, while the economic slowdown of the main European economies worsens. What was designed as a tool for governments to buy time in order to carry out structural reforms and reduce imbalances, has bec...
(Source: AZ Quotes , caption and editing by the Author, sagacity by T.S. Eliot) The true state, of what was referred to as "rotten" in the Eurozone, has become clear as elections for the top jobs commence. European Council President Donald Tusk, a Polish native, made it clear that Fra...
Perhaps nothing summarizes the efforts of British Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union to produce an exit for the UK from the European community than the opinion piece by Robert Shrimsley in the Financial Times . Mr. Shrimsley, discussing the exit plan produced by Ms. May, writ...