Eurozone

Questions over further quantitative easing rollout

If you had not been paying attention to financial markets for quite a few years and then – from this position of naivety – had looked at the eurozone, your likely conclusion would be that the region's equity bourses were offering tremendous value.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson must "raise his game from sloganeering"

Perhaps surprisingly, Europe was the second best-performing regional stockmarket in the world in the first half of 2019.

In times of uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, corporate bonds with an investment grade rating are commonly considered as the new safe havens. 

The one trade to watch out for

Proposals for new 'mini-BOTs' mooted

While macroeconomic concerns remain, the outlook for European equities is now more positive than a year ago.

EU to open an Excessive Deficit Procedure for Italy

Almost a decade on from the sovereign debt crisis, we explore whether the euro zone's peripheral economies have materially improved or old vulnerabilities will again become apparent as growth slows.