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Investing in Europe, even by way of exchange-traded funds, has been tricky this year. For investors eyeing eurozone economies, the European Central Bank (ECB) has not, despite its best efforts, encouraged investors to dive back into those markets. In the UK, there is Brexit risk. Negative interest...

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda told the government's top advisory panel that it will take time for its negative interest rate policy to have an impact, a Reuters report said citing Economy Minister Nobuteru Ishihara. In January, the BoJ stunned the market by adopting a negative interest...

This year's exchange-traded funds' inflows are marked by at least one obvious theme: flight to safe-haven assets. That explains the top asset-gathering ETF year-to-date is the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD) and why six of the top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are fixed income funds. Among equity-...

U.S. markets are mostly flat in early Thursday trading after the ECB issued a surprise cut to its main interest rate, lowering it from 0.05 percent to 0.00 percent. The fifth primary rate cut in Europe since the beginning of 2013 is set to go into effect on March 16. U.S. markets have shown...

RSM Chief Economist Joe Brusuelas said the United States is poised to outperform the Eurozone not only in growth, but also in hiring and diverging inflation readings, as the U.S. economy is rebounding and the inventory correction that caused much of the quarter to quarter volatility in 2015 GDP...

The European Central Bank (ECB) stunned the market with three-pronged cut in interest rates and expansion of its bond-buying program. The ECB trimmed the interest rate on the main refinancing operations of the eurosystem by 5 basis points down to 0.00 percent. The interest rate on the marginal...

2016 was supposed to be the year of the banks. As investors counted down the final moments of 2015, they looked hopefully toward the banking sector as economic recovery, rising inflation and improving bond yields were seen benefitting the industry. However, those hopes were quickly dashed, as...

This week has been a brutal one so far for European banks, as the sector has seen a steep decline amid worries about bad debts and future instability. Germany's Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE: DB) has fallen nearly 40 percent so far this year, and others like Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS) and BNP...

With most analysts betting on an interest rate hike in December, there has been a lot of chatter about the negative effects likely to follow. The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its base interest rate at its policy meeting next week, something that will pull the bank into uncharted...

Last week's scoreboard showed a flattish result, but getting there was far from boring thanks to unprecedented jawboning by global central banks. Friday ended super green – up almost 2 percent – completely erasing the Thursday drubbing. The Friday open should have been weak as a...

The European Central Bank disappointed global financial markets last week when it merely lowered its deposit rate to -0.3 percent, not the -0.4 percent so many market participants were hoping for. Not surprisingly, the euro surged against the dollar, leaving some investors to think the near-term...

The European Central Bank on Thursday announced a 10 basis point cut in the deposit rate to -0.3 percent, as expected. The ECB also announced an extension of its QE program until at least March 2017. Speaking to Benzinga, Mohamed El-Erian noted the ECB "did not go as far as markets...

The coming week is set to be a big one for European markets, as the European Central Bank is due to hold a policy meeting on Thursday. The bank is widely expected to add to its stimulus measures by lowering deposit rates even further into the negative territory. That means borrowing will become...