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EC Building growth: Country-specific recommendations 2014
June 2, 2014--The European Commission has today adopted a series of economic policy recommendations to individual Member States to strengthen the recovery that began a year ago. The recommendations are based on detailed analyses of each country's situation and provide guidance on how to boost growth, increase competitiveness and create jobs in 2014-2015.
This year, the emphasis has shifted from addressing the urgent problems caused by the crisis to strengthening the conditions for sustainable growth and employment in a post-crisis economy. As part of today's package, which marks the culmination of the fourth European Semester of economic policy coordination, the Commission has also adopted several decisions on Member States' public finances under the Stability and Growth Pact. Taken together, they represent an ambitious set of reforms for the EU economy.
view the Overview of the 2014 recommendations by country
Source: Europa
Turnover at Deutsche B0rse's cash markets at 96.1 billion euros in May
June 2, 2014--Order book turnover on Xetra, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Tradegate stood at €96.1 billion in May (May 2013: €109.2 billion). Of the €96.1 billion, €88.4 billion were attributable to Xetra (May 2013: €99.5 billion). €3.9 billion were attributable to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (May 2013: €5.4 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled approximately €3.8 billion in May (May 2013: €4.3 billion).
In equities, turnover reached €84.2 billion on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets (Xetra: €78.9 billion, Frankfurt Stock Exchange: €1.8 billion, Tradegate Exchange: €3.5 billion). Turnover in bonds was €1.0 billion, and in structured products €1.1 billion. Order book turnover in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs amounted to €9.7 billion.
view the IMF Country report-Switzerland: Financial Sector Stability Assessment db x-trackers MSCI USA ETF (DR) launched on Xetra
The db x-trackers MSCI USA Index UCITS ETF (DR) enables investors to participate in the performance of the MSCI USA Index. view more Source GS EFI World ETF launched on Xetra
The Source Goldman Sachs Equity Factor World UCITS ETF enables investors to participate for the first time in a strategy approach based on these five stock-picking factors: size, value, momentum, quality and low beta.
view more Invesco PowerShares hires head of Distribution from iShares
Baron, who will be responsible for driving Invesco PowerShares' distribution strategy in the UK, joins from iShares, Blackrock in London.
view more Business Climate Indicator increased slightly in May view more
China's E Fund teams with ETFS for mainland ETF view more
South East Europe Climbs Slowly Out of Recession, says World Bank Severe floods, in particular in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia, which occurred in mid-May due to unprecedented rains, have caused a humanitarian crisis with dozens of people dead and millions displaced or left without access to water or power. Housing, crops and livestock have been lost, and major transportation links have been disrupted. The floods will undoubtedly have a negative impact on growth in 2014, though it is too early to measure the full impact. Assessments of damage and reconstruction needs are being launched as initial relief operations continue. view the outh East Europe Regular Economic Report-Brittle Recovery view theInfographic: SEE6 Unemployment Facts & Figures If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us
he two global banks––particularly UBS––were hard hit by the recent global financial crisis (GFC); the rest of the banking sector emerged relatively unscathed. In response to the GFC the Swiss authorities took forceful action. The single supervisor, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), became operational in 2009. Capital standards were raised above Basel minima and ahead of the Basel implementation timetable. Additional capital buffers were imposed on the two large banks, and contingent capital instruments (CoCos) introduced. Macroprudential instruments were analyzed, and at end-September 2013 a countercyclical capital buffer (CCB) targeting residential property mortgages took effect; an increase in the CCB was announced in January 2014, to take effect from June 2014. The insurance industry became subject to the Swiss Solvency Test (SST). Stress tests indicate that the banks are robust against even severe shocks. Banks have increased their capital, and the two global banks have achieved substantial deleveraging. FINMA has focused on significantly improving the quality of its supervision. That said, identification of individual bank risk was hindered as legal constraints prevented the Swiss authorities from providing regulatory data at the individual bank level. Hence the stress tests will not have served to indentify outliers in performance. Nonetheless, there remain important vulnerabilities and challenges to financial stability:
The Swiss economy is among the most interconnected in the world and is deeply exposed to volatility in the European Union (EU). Stresses in the euro area periphery led to “safe haven” flows to the Swiss franc, putting sustained upward pressure on the rate, which the authorities seek to counter through maintaining an exchange rate floor.
Real estate bubbles appear to be emerging; with monetary instruments not available, macroprudential instruments are being introduced, but so far are limited and untested.
While important progress has been made in addressing too-big-to-fail (TBTF) and too-big-to-save (TBTS) issues, this is still a work in progress.
Interest rates are negative at some maturities, threatening the business models of life insurance and pension companies. Temporary alleviation from the SST is in effect through 2015.
Source: IMF
May 28, 2014--ETF offers access to US equities
May 28, 2014--A new db x-trackers equity index fund from the ETF section of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management has been tradable in the XTF segment on Xetra since Wednesday.
ETF name: db x-trackers MSCI USA Index UCITS ETF (DR)
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: IE00BJ0KDR00
Total expense ratio: 0.09 percent
Distribution policy: non-distributing
Benchmark: MSCI USA Total Return Index
Source: Deutsche Börse
May 28, 2014--A new equity index fund from the ETF offering issued by Source has been tradable on Xetra since Wednesday.
ETF name: Source Goldman Sachs Equity Factor World UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: DE000A1XES75
Total expense ratio: 0.65 percent
Distribution policy: non-distributing
Benchmark: Goldman Sachs Equity Factor Index World NTR USD Index
Source: Xetra
May 28, 2014--Global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) Invesco PowerShares has appointed Caroline Baron as head of Invesco PowerShares ETF Distribution UK.
Baron's appointment is part of the ongoing programme from the provider of Intelligent ETFs to expand its team in Europe.
Source: Investment Europe
May 28, 2014--In May 2014 the Business Climate Indicator (BCI) for the euro area increased slightly by 0.09 points to +0.37. Managers' evaluation of the past production improved markedly, while production expectations, overall order books and export order books booked more moderate increases.
Managers' views on stocks of finished products remained broadly unchanged.
Source: Europa
May 27, 2014--China's E Fund Management has joined hands with UK-based ETF Securities to launch a London-and Europe-listed exchange traded fund investing in domestically listed Chinese equities.
The ETFS-E Fund MSCI China A Go Ucits ETF, which made its debut last week on the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse’s Xetra platform and Euronext, tracks A-shares, or domestic stocks traded on the Shenzhen or Shanghai stock exchanges but available to foreign investors only through government quota systems.
Source: FT.com
May 26, 2014--South East Europe's (SEE6[1]) economy began recovering from the 2012 recession, growing by 2.2 percent on average in 2013, according to the World Bank's latest South East Europe Regular Economic Report (SEE RER).
Looking ahead, the report says the region is projected to grow at 1.9 percent in 2014 and 2.6 percent in 2015 thanks to growing external demand, but significant risks cloud the outlook, including the expected impact of recent flooding in the region.
Source: World Bank
