European investment opportunities remain, despite financial repression in the region. The European Central Bank (ECB) surprised market watchers with its dovish turn in January, wiping out any prospect of an interest-rate rise this year and revising its growth projections for the euro area downward for 2019. With Europeans set to live with interest rates at zero (or negative) for longer, many are wondering if Europe now faces “Japanisation”, meaning that it is stuck in a low-growth and low-rate environment indefinitely, presenting particular challenges for European investors. Given the current environment and the already low yield level reached by both European sovereign and credit markets, generating returns out of
Topics:
Alexandre Tavazzi considers the following as important: 2) Swiss and European Macro, ECB, European GDP, European inflation, Featured, German Bund yield, Macroview, newsletter, Pictet Macro Analysis
This could be interesting, too:
Guillermo Alcala writes USD/CHF slides to test 0.8645 support with US inflation data on tap
Swissinfo writes Swiss central bank posts CHF62.5bn profit
Nachrichten Ticker - www.finanzen.ch writes Trump-Faktor und Marktbedingungen könnten für neuen Bitcoin-Rekord sorgen
Charles Hugh Smith writes Is Social Media Actually “Media,” Or Is It Something Else?
|
European investment opportunities remain, despite financial repression in the region. The European Central Bank (ECB) surprised market watchers with its dovish turn in January, wiping out any prospect of an interest-rate rise this year and revising its growth projections for the euro area downward for 2019. With Europeans set to live with interest rates at zero (or negative) for longer, many are wondering if Europe now faces “Japanisation”, meaning that it is stuck in a low-growth and low-rate environment indefinitely, presenting particular challenges for European investors. Given the current environment and the already low yield level reached by both European sovereign and credit markets, generating returns out of safe assets will be challenging for investors. We can expect negative returns for European investment grade and German sovereign bonds to persist over the next five years. Hence, European investors need to take a different path to generate some income out of their savings. |
German Bunds Yield, curve(see more posts on German Bund yield, ) - Click to enlarge |
Tags: ECB,European GDP,European inflation,Featured,German Bund yield,Macroview,newsletter