
Wall Street stock markets opened the trading week on a positive trend yesterday, as when the technology stocks led the gains, all this towards a busiest weeks of the quarterly reporting season in the US.

Wall Street stock markets opened the trading week on a positive trend yesterday, as when the technology stocks led the gains, all this towards a busiest weeks of the quarterly reporting season in the US.

The futures contracts on Wall street are signaling of a slight decline at the opening of the trading day today.

The Euro fell to its lowest level in seven months against the US dollar, in light of the remarks made by European Central Bank head Mario Draghi which weakened the Euro and boosted the dollar.
Draghi sign that the policy makers may extend its bond purchase target beyond the date set for March.
He also denied earlier reports that the central bank is considering to reduce the volume of quantitative easing, and with that he provided another signal to sell Euros.

The trading in most Asian markets is conducted with declines in view of the positive earnings season in the US, which strengthened the chances that the Fed will raise the interest rates this year.

This morning the Japanese yen weakened against the US dollar by 0.1%, trading at about 104.1 yen to the dollar.

The oil prices retreated yesterday from a high of 15 months.
The Texas sweet oil ended at a price level of 50.43 dollars a barrel, a decline of 2.3%.

There are price declines at the opening of trading day on Wall Street, due to a change in the trend in Europe.

The European stock markets fell after the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi said that the central bank council at its meeting today did not discuss the extending of the quantitative easing program (QE), in which the bank buys bonds totaling 80 billion Euros every month.

The future contracts on Wall street are signaling on a positive opening of the trading day.
In view of the rising prices on the European stock exchanges and the positive day in Asia.

The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged at its base interest rate zero.