{"id":1574,"date":"2015-07-06T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/sx5e-top-equity-performers-in-h115\/"},"modified":"2015-07-06T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:41:00","slug":"sx5e-top-equity-performers-in-h115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/sx5e-top-equity-performers-in-h115\/","title":{"rendered":"SX5E: Top equity performers in H115"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Euro Stoxx 50 (SX5E) is a widely used benchmark for European equities. The index returned 11.73% to investors in the first six months of the year. This is lower than that 17.93% returned to shareholders in the first quarter of the year.<br \/>\nThe second quarter of the year was a volatile ride for equity investors. Markets were dominated by news on Greece on whether or not the Greek prime minister would give in to creditors\u2019 demands on austerity measures.<br \/>\nDespite this event risk in the markets, European equity markets kept on trading in positive territory for the first six month of the year despite the volatility in the second quarter.<br \/>\nHowever, for those investors who didn\u2019t just base their performance on that of the market as a whole but took well calculated risks on individual holdings to try and outperform the markets, the following were the top performers in the index:<br \/>\nAirbus Group SE (40.75% up in H115, indicative gross yield of 1.99%)<br \/>\nAirbus Group SE manufactures airplanes and military equipment.\u00a0 The Company produces commercial aircraft including the Airbus, military fighter aircraft, military and commercial helicopters, missiles, satellites, and telecommunications and&#8230;<br \/>\nSource: TOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Euro Stoxx 50 (SX5E) is a widely used benchmark for European equities. The index returned 11.73% to investors in the first six months of the year. This is lower than that 17.93% returned to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-malta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}