All articles by Caroline Hay – Page 12
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Features
The need for a broader index
The world economy grows, and shrinks, capital markets change, technology improves, crises rock the equilibrium and investors carry on adapting, fast. It has been well documented how the introduction of the euro would, at a stroke, create a huge new market that would provide a new melting pot for the ...
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ECB resists rate cut mood
Only one to go? After the Bank of England’s careful quarter-point cut in early February, a move which followed similar actions from the central banks of the US, Canada, Australia, Denmark and even Japan, the spotlight turned, by default, on the European Central Bank (ECB). But no such rate-cutting announcement ...
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Ready for next convergence play
After months of hectic volatility in the bond and currency markets, investors may be allowed to relax a bit as we go into the summer. “The recent string of weaker US economic reports has left the financial markets in a state of near euphoria,” comments Robeco Group’s Bob Galesloot. “We ...
