Investors must avoid 'yield weighting' portfolios
US 30-year Treasury plunges to record low
Europe faces several challenges, specifically German manufacturing, trade wars and Italian budgetary pressures.
Effects of low-interest rate environment
Bond yields predicted to sink below zero, experts argue
Europe has been held down by lack of improvement in US-China trade tensions, despite continued expectations for approaching rate cuts from both the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve.
Impact performance data tells different story to common beliefs
Europe's run of poor manufacturing and trade data continued in June.