European Central Bank

By the ECB´s decision to remove the explicit pledge to buy more assets if necessary the pledge to keep on buying assets on monthly basis remained. The change in the ECB statement is a hawkish tweak although the ECB President tried to downplay it during the press conference. The fast is that...

The iShares MSCI Italy ETF (NYSE: EWI), the largest U.S.-listed exchange traded fund dedicated to Italian equities, jumped 28.5 percent last year, making it one of the best-performing single-country developed markets ETFs. Along the way, EWI outperformed the comparable Germany and Spain ETFs while...

The highlight of the economic calendar of the week is the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium to be held on Friday and Saturday. Though the symposium as such, is not a market moving event, there is a lot of excitement generated around it, given the pedigree of the attendees and kind of...

Vexing currency market observers, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSE: UUP) is down 8.4 percent year to date. That is an arguably stunning decline when considering the Federal Reserve has boosted interest rates twice this year. UUP, the exchange-traded fund proxy for the U.S....

The Dow Jones Industrial Average benefited from a triple-digit point surge on Tuesday while the S&P 500 index hit a new intra-day all-time high. Despite the market's continued momentum, some experts are calling for investors to lock in their profits and exit American stocks. Every bull run...

Geopolitics will once again take center stage this week on Wall Street, as a trio of potential market catalysts could have a major impact on gold prices. When investors get uncertain about potential shifts in the political backdrop, they often turn to gold as an investment safe haven. Here’s...

The European Central Bank has lowered the common equity tier 1 (CET1) ratio required for the largest German bank, Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE: DB). CET1 capital includes common shares of stock, stock surpluses, retained earnings and accumulated other comprehensive income. The CET1 ratio is the...

Japanese stocks were trading higher on Thursday, ahead of the European Central Bank’s decision later in the day. The Nikkei 225 gained 0.75 percent, or 139 points to 18,635.50, and the TOPIX rose 0.85 percent, or 12.6 points to 1,503.26. Japan’s Gross Domestic Product rose 1.3...

For a significant portion of 2016, the euro vexed investors, rising in spite of the European Central Bank's (ECB) best efforts to weaken the common currency. Over that span, the Guggenheim CurrencyShares Euro Trust (NYSE: FXE) was, surprisingly to some, one of the better-performing currency...

Mohamed El-Erian, a well-respected economist and chief economic adviser at Allianz, isn't a fan of owning stocks. In an interview with Bloomberg, El-Erian said he isn't avoiding stocks because of the perceived risks. In fact, his portfolio composition contains assets generally considered to be...