First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund III ETF News

We think the energy crisis will spur a recession in Europe. The ECB is trying to fight inflation without recognizing the costs.

The S&P Global Eurozone Manufacturing PMI fell to 49.6 in August, down from 49.8 and further beneath the 50.0 mark that separates growth from contraction. Weak demand and efforts to reduce high invent

High inflation and low unemployment will push up wage growth in 2022 and 2023. At the same time, labour productivity growth is expected to come down significantly.

The credit cocktail has changed after the European Central Bank announced a 50bp rate hike. Thus, we conclude credit is now looking more attractive due to lower rates and the value priced in.

Europe is facing the risk of an energy shock-driven recession and periphery stress. That's why we think the ECB will stop hiking earlier than the Fed.

The market now has more than a 50% probability attached to a 100bp hike from the Fed in July. We think this is overdone, and we think the bond market agrees with us.

The reason for the new concern over another euro crisis is clear: the ECB's announcement of normalising monetary policy; i.e., the end of negative interest rates, a potential further series of policy

Eurozone consumption is still experiencing a temporary bump from catch-up spending on services, although today's PMI figures are already starting to cast doubt on that view. This summer might still se

At the press conference today, the European Central Bank tried to demonstrate a gradually accelerating hawkishness, keeping the door open to a series of rate hikes. Whether the ECB is now fully determ

Measured in standard deviation, inflation divergence in the eurozone has never been higher than it is now.

Eurozone business activity growth slowed in March.

European markets have been turbulent because of the region's proximity to the war in Ukraine and economic links with Russia.

The pandemic led to unprecedented government support schemes and a rethinking of government investment. Now, the war in Ukraine has led to a broad rethinking of European defence spending and yet anoth

Labour shortages are reported to be limiting production more than ever in the eurozone, according to a business survey by the European Commission. One reason for the current labour shortage could be a

House price growth in the eurozone is at its highest since 2006 as housing markets were supported by a limited impact of the pandemic on household finances, rising savings, historically low-interest r