Europe ETF News for the Past Year
Monetary developments in the euro area: January 2025
February 27, 2025-- Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 3.6% in January 2025 from 3.4% in December (revised from 3.5%)
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, increased to 2.7% in January from 1.8% in December
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households increased to 1.3% in January from 1.1% in December
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations increased to 2.0% in January from 1.7% in December (revised from 1.5%)
Components of the broad monetary aggregate M3
The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 3.6% in January 2025 from 3.4% in December, averaging 3.6% in the three months up to January. The components of M3 showed the following developments.
The annual growth rate of the narrower aggregate M1, which comprises currency in circulation and overnight deposits, increased to 2.7% in January from 1.8% in December. The annual growth rate of shot-term deposits other than overnight deposits (M2-M1) decreased to 3.3% in January from 4.4% in December. The annual growth rate of marketable instruments (M3-M2) decreased to 14.7% in January from 15.8% in December.
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Source: ECB
ECB: Meeting of 29-30 January 2025 Account of the monetary policy meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
February 27, 2025-- Held in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday and Thursday, 29-30 January 2025
1. Review of financial, economic and monetary developments and policy options
Financial market developments
Ms Schnabel noted that the financial market developments observed in the euro area after October 2024 had reversed since the Governing Council's previous monetary policy meeting on 11-12 December 2024.
The US presidential election in November had initially led to lower euro area bond yields and equity prices.
Since the December monetary policy meeting, however, both risk-free yields and risk asset prices had moved substantially higher and had more than made up their previous declines. A less gloomy domestic macroeconomic outlook and an increase in the market's outlook for inflation in the euro area on the back of higher energy prices had led investors to expect the ECB to proceed with a more gradual rate easing path.
A bounce-back of euro area risk appetite had supported equity and corporate bond prices and had contained sovereign bond spreads. While the euro had also rebounded recently against the US dollar, it remained significantly weaker than before the US election.
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Source: ECB
MarketVector and XENIX Launch The Dividends 500 Index, a New Benchmark for Global High-Dividend Investing
February 25, 2025--MarketVector IndexesTM ("MarketVector"), a global index provider recognized for thematic and factor-based indexing, and XENIX, the index owner known for its ETF ratings and awards in Europe, have launched "The Dividends 500 Index", officially known as the MarketVectorTM XENIX Global Dynamic Dividends 500 Index.
This benchmark serves European ETF issuers and financial product developers by selecting the top 500 high-dividend-yield stocks across developed and emerging markets.
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Source: MarketVector Indexes
