European Central Bank

Reassessing the sector during Covid-19

While new coronavirus cases are plateauing, although not yet declining significantly, countries in Europe are beginning to judge the economic pain wreaked by Covid-19 containment measures to be worse than the infection itself and are shifting focus slowly...

A new beginning for Europe?

U-shaped economic recovery likely

Recession likely to last for 'at least a year'

While coming within a whisker of calling the low for the S&P 500, it is fruitless attempting to call short-term market moves.

European equities have declined 26% during 2020 owing to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Consequently, economic activity indices have declined to multi-year lows.

'Let the buyer beware'

Investors are grappling with the huge uncertainty caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic. The human and economic impact has been dramatic, both in its magnitude and in its velocity.

$57.9bn of trading losses for the month