The eurozone can’t help but perennially disappoint investors. Weakness in its Franco-German core suggests that 2019 won’t be an exception.
2018 was supposed to be the year when European stock investors finally got their just desserts, after seven years of almost uninterrupted U.S. outperformance. Instead, the Euro Stoxx 50 will likely finish toward the bottom in the league table of developed-market equity indexes, after having dropped almost 15% in 2018.
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