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This ETF, the JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF (BBEU), is designed to allocate at least 80% of its total investment capital to the equity securities that comprise its designated benchmark index. This underlying index is constructed using a market-capitalization weighting methodology, adjusted for free float (publicly traded shares), and consists of stocks from financially developed European nations and regions. Specifically, these include: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
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The European Central Bank is widely expected to raise interest rates again on September 10, taking its deposit rate to 2.50%. The decision itself is hardly controversial: all 65 economists surveyed by Reuters between August 31 and September 3 predicted a 25-basis-point increase.
The European Central Bank is widely expected to hike interest rates on Thursday, erring on the side of caution as the U.S.-Iran wardrags on, keeping oil prices high and raising inflation again.
Focus in the coming week will center firmly on U.S. inflation data as investors gauge whether the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates in the coming months, and possibly as early as this month.
Economists think the European Central Bank will raise interest rates next week but not beyond that. The majority of respondents in a Bloomberg survey expect the deposit rate to be raised by a quarter-point to 2.5% on Thursday and stay there through 2027.
The spike in euro zone inflation since the start of the war in Iran has almost entirely been driven by higher energy prices, justifying the European Central Bank's small increase in interest rates in June, new ECB research showed on Tuesday.