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They are among the strongest engines of the world’s economy, but in equity markets, developing nations have trailed rather than led this decade.

Stocks posted their eighth monthly gain this year in October, with US indices climbing to a record high, amid positive macroeconomic and corporate news.

There was enough positive news to lift stocks higher during October: a partial trade agreement between the US and China, a potential Brexit compromise in the UK, better-than-expected corporate earnings, and yet another rate cut by the Federal Reserve.

Preceded by great expectation, the new-generation telecommunications technology known as 5G has finally arrived. 

The planet’s water bodies are the destination for an important share of human waste and pollution. Rubbish, factory refuse, septic tanks, car fumes, pesticides – they all eventually flow into rivers, seas and oceans. 

On Sept. 17, the rate on overnight Treasury-funded US repurchase agreements, or repos, jumped to an average of 5.25% from 2.43% the day before, with some trades settling as high as 9%.

Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. has licensed the EURO STOXX 50 ESG-X Index to Scotiabank to serve as an underlying asset for structured products.

The outstanding growth of responsible investing will reach a new milestone next week, when investors will be able to trade European options tracking environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies for the first time. 

The STOXX® Minimum Variance Indices are designed to achieve the lowest return volatility in a given investable universe.

Due to the acquisition of shares in the context of an attempted takeover of Osram Licht AG by AMS AG the free float of Osram Licht AG changed by more than 10 percentage points.

With US demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies on the rise, it is timely to look at the recent performance of the STOXX® USA 500 ESG-X Index. 

In this paper, we take a look at how minimum variance performed vis-à-vis its core market counterpart during nine recent geopolitical risk events. The nature of these events is that they tend to push correlations towards 1.0.