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The State Street SPDR Portfolio Europe ETF (SPEU) aims to replicate the overall investment returns of the STOXX Europe Total Market Index, prior to deducting its operational fees. As a cost-effective option within the SPDR Portfolio ETF suite, this fund offers a fundamental building block for investors seeking wide-ranging and diversified market exposure. It provides comprehensive access to the Western European stock market, investing across companies of all sizes, from large corporations to smaller enterprises. This broad diversification can also help mitigate risks that are specific to individual countries within the region.
Is SPEU's expense ratio expensive, average, or a steal for its category?
Pro reveals the verdict on a 5-tier spectrum calibrated against ICI 2025 industry averages, with strategy-aware bands so the comparison is meaningful.
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.