The European stock markets trade is conducted with rising prices following the trend in Asia and Wall Street, and after the release of figures in France who showing that unemployment fell below 10% for the first time 4 years.
Month: August 2016
Market News Briefing – Aug 18th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
The trading day on Wall Street stock exchanges ended yesterday on a positive trend after the protocol of the Federal Reserve releasedy,and this bolstered the investors’ assessments that the central bank will not going raise interest rates in the US this year.
Market News Briefing – Aug 17th 2016 15:00 (GMT+1)
Wall Street’s stock markets traded in steadily towards the publication of the protocol at its last meeting of the Federal Reserve, which may well bring clues to the monetary policy of the central bank in the future.
The Dow Jones retreated by 0.1%, the Nasdaq is almost unchanged and the S&P 500 falling by 0.1%.
Market News Briefing – Aug 17th 2016 13:30 (GMT+1)
Ahead of the Fed protocols: Expected steady opening on Wall Street
The futures contracts on leading indices on Wall Street signaling a stable opening of the trading day, in view of the fall in the European stock exchanges and after the locking of the Asian stock markets in a mixed trend.
Yesterday Wall Street locked with declines when the three leading indices retreated from the new high they climbed.
Market News Briefing – Aug 17th 2016 09:30 (GMT+1)
The UK unemployment figures were surprisingly good
The number seeking unemployment benefits fell by 8,600 people in July, the month following the vote on the UK exit from European Union.
The number of unemployed fell by 52 thousand in the quarter ended in June, to -1.64 million.
This is the lowest figure since the beginning of 2008,
The unemployment rate remained, as expected, unchanged at 4.9%.
The last time the unemployment rate was lower was in 2005.
The average wage grew by 2.4%, including bonuses, and by 2.3% excluding bonuses.
Market News Briefing – Aug 17th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
After the stock markets closed lower yesterday, this morning the European stock markets are currently trading with a slight rising prices.
FTSE rising by 0.3%, the CAC adds 0.4% and the DAX rising by 0.1%.
Breaking News – Aug 16th 2016 13:15 (GMT+1)
Like the global trend: the expectations on Wall Street is of declines
The futures contracts indices traded on Wall Street today are with a slight declines, due to the negative trend on stock exchanges in Europe and Asia, and despite the new highs from yesterday and when the leading indices went up to new highs.
Breaking News – Aug 16th 2016 09:30 (GMT+1)
A rise of the UK inflation after the weakness of the pound
The UK inflation has risen sharply than expected in July.
The weakening of the British pound after the referendum, has made the imported products to be more expensive for local buyers.
The consumer price index in Britain rose last month by 0.6%, the sharpest rate since November 2014.
Market News Briefing – Aug 16th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets trading is conducted with price declines and the Euro strengthened.
FTSE decreasing by 0.5% after eight days of gains, the CAC and DAX are also down by 0.5%.
The euro strengthened by 0.5% against the US dollar of 1.1236 dollars to the Euro.
Market News Briefing – Aug 16th 2016 08:00 (GMT+1)
The price of the oil in decline after his rise of 3% yesterday.
As a result, the Asian stock markets trading is conducted this morning with declines and also the Japanese yen is getting stronger.
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