Over 2014 there has been a steady decline in the yield on German government bonds. As a result bunds have outperformed other developed markets. This outperformance could have been driven by two factors...

This has been a bleak month for the euro zone. A string of weak data releases, including flat region-wide GDP growth, and a contraction in Germany and Italy (the latter for the second quarter in a row, indicating recession), suggests the recovery not been sustained.

Emerging currencies were under pressure this summer. Save for the Indonesian rupiah, Thai baht, Malaysian ringgit and Chinese yuan, emerging currencies has corrected against the US dollar since 30 June. It is mainly the CEEMEA currencies and, to a lesser extent, Latin American currencies that have underperformed for several reasons...

ETFGI's analysis finds ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe gathered a record level of US$10.6 Bn in net new assets in July, pushing YTD NNA to US$42.7 Bn, a new record level of NNA at this point in the year, outpacing the previous high of US$30.1 Bn set in 2011.

In accordance with the Right Upon Future Offers or RUFO clause (similar to a conventional clause requiring creditors to be treated pari passu) contained in the 2005 agreement on the restructuring of the debt of the exchange bondholders (preventing Argentina from making more favourable repayments to holdouts unless the conditions are the same as for exchange bondholders), the funds paid by Argentina were not handed over to the creditors.