The futures contracts on Wall Street indices indicate of slight decreases of 0.2% with the opening of trading in Wall street today.
Month: September 2016
Market News Briefing – Sept. 16th 2016 11:45 (GMT+1)
The Russian central bank reduced the interest rates today from 10.5% to 10%.
The bank said that it expected further potential downloads of interest in the first half of 2017.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 16th 2016 10:00 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets are expected to end this week with losses for a second consecutive week and indeed this morning there are declines at the European session.
The English FTSE fell by 0.3%, the German DAX fell the same, and the French CAC fell by 0.1%.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 16th 2016 08:05 (GMT+1)
The oil prices are falling this morning in Asian.
The WTI oil fell by 0.6% to a price of 43.64 dollars a barrel, after it rose yesterday by 0.8% in the US.
Similarly, the Brent oil fell by 0.6% to 46.27 dollars a barrel, after increased yesterday by 1.6% .
Market News Briefing – Sept. 16th 2016 08:00 (GMT+1)
Asian markets are trading with gains this morning ahead of the interest rate decisions expected to be made next week by central banks in the US and Japan.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 16th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
Wall Street stock exchanges closed yesterday on a positive trend and the S&P 500 recovered from a low of two months, after weak macroeconomic data released in the US reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates in the coming months.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 15:30 (GMT+1)
Stronger gains on Wall Street despite the disappointing macroeconomic data.
The oil is trading on a positive trend, after the price fell by about 3% in trading yesterday.
The rise of the oil today supported by the weekly oil inventories given the US, which showed a decrease of 600 thousand barrels against a forecast of 3.8 million extra barrels.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 14:30 (GMT+1)
The manufacturing activity in the New York continued to contract in September, and sharply than expected, while the manufacturing sector in the Philadelphia region grew for the second month in a row.
Index of manufacturing activity in the New York (Empire State Index) climbed in September to minus 2 points compared to minus 4.2 points in August.
Economists expected a small increase in the index to minus 0.5 points.
Negative index indicates a contraction of activity in the manufacturing sector.
Index of manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia region a rose this month to 12.8 points, compared with a level of 2 points in August.
Economists Expect the index to decline by 0.8 points.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 13:30 (GMT+1)
US economic data:
The number of unemployment claims this week was 260 thousand, compared with a forecast of 262 thousand.
The figure represents a slight increase from last week, which recorded 259 thousand claims.
Retail sales fell in August by 0.3%, compared to the forecast to decline of 0.1%.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
Wall street futures contracts rising by 0.4%, and the WTI oil rising by 0.5% to $ 43.8 per barrel.
Apple shares are rising by 1% in the pre trading, after announcing last night that all the stock of iPhone 7 new black color, glossy black (Jet Black) sold out on all models and all versions prior to the start of sale in stores on Friday.
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