The bank of England left its interest rates unchanged at 0.25%.
Month: September 2016
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 10:30 (GMT+1)
UK retail sales data for August were pleasantly surprising.
The data show a decrease of only 0.2%, compared with a forecast decline of 0.4%.
UK retail sales data for July showed growth to date of 1.5%, but were revised to impressive growth of 1.9%.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 07:35 (GMT+1)
Apple shares jumped yesterday by 3.6% after analysts at RBC Capital Markets issued a report that it presented five reasons why they give recommendation of “buy” the shares of consumer electronics giant after launching the new models of iPhone 7.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 15th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
Wall Street stock markets, which opened the trading day yesterday with gains, finally closed with a mixed trend and the S&P 500 fell for the fifth time in six trading days, after the price of the oil dropped to a low of two weeks.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 14th 2016 15:45 (GMT+1)
Green opening on Wall Street:
The Dow Jones, Nasdaq and S&P 500 are rising by 0.2%.
The US bond trading for 10 years is rising, the bond yields are going down by 2 basis points to 1.71%.
The shares of the technology giant, Apple, rising by 1.5%.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 14th 2016 14:30 (GMT+1)
A sharper decline in US import prices
The US import prices fell last month for the first time since February due to the retreat of oil prices.
The export prices recorded the sharpest fall this year due to a drop in prices of agricultural exports.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 14th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on the leading indices on Wall Street traded at this time with price gains of up to 0.2%.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 14th 2016 09:30 (GMT+1)
UK unemployment figures:
The number of unemployed in July fell by 39 thousand to 1.63 million.
The unemployment rate stood at 4.9%, in line with expectations.
July’s Monthly salary including bonuses rose by 2.3%, above the forecast of 2.2%. The wages without bonuses rose by 2.1%, the forecast was for a rise of 2.2%.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 14th 2016 09:00 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets are going up this morning, after yesterday they closed at the lowest level for more than a month.
FTSE rising by 0.2%, the DAX adds 0.2% and the CAC rising by 0.1%.
The statistics office in France reported that the consumer price index rose in August. The index in August rose by 0.3% compared to July, and compared with the corresponding month last year it increased by 0.2%.
The data was in line with expectations.
Market News Briefing – Sept. 14th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
The Bank of Japan will hold a two-day meeting next week ,in which he will consider if to lower the interest rates further into negative territory in which it is in recent months.
Most of the Asian stock markets closed the trading day today with a decline, after the declines on Wall Street yesterday.
Tokyo fell by 0.7%,Shanghai retreated by 0.6% and Hong Kong was unchanged.
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