Equity

According to Tim Stevenson, Head of Europe Equity at Henderson Global Investors, with a clear increase in nervousness in recent months – especially August and September – it is perhaps time to ask “is that it in Europe”?

As part of its strategy to develop its derivatives segment, Euronext introduces today the first “Spotlight Options” on the Paris market. The dedicated segment for spotlight options benefits from a unique market model designed by Euronext to give more visibility to underlying assets, such as medium and smaller sized companies and newly listed stocks.

Given recent equity market volatility, now is an opportune moment to re-assess our view of European equities for the remainder of this year and into 2016. We continue to believe European equities offer almost ‘safe haven’ status in a world of increasing economic uncertainty.

According to Ross Teverson, Head of Global Emerging Markets Strategy at Jupiter, market is overly focused on risk rather than opportunity, EM valuations already price in a very negative scenario and recent weakness has created the opportunity to invest in positive long-term change at attractive valuations...

Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, yesterday announced record trading volumes on its markets on 24 August 2015.