The Asian stock markets trading is conducted today with a mixed trend at the backdrop of Japan’s interest rate decision and a positive trading on Wall Street yesterday.
Month: December 2016
Market News Briefing – December 20th 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)
The Bank of Japan kept the interest rates negative at minus 0.1% and the target government bond yields to 10 years at 0%.
The bank also will continue to buy government bonds at an annual rate of 80 trillion yen.
The central bank interest rate announcement stated that the Japanese economy continues to recover at a moderate pace but raised economic forecasts regarding exports and industrial output.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 15:00 (GMT+1)
Wall Street trading week opened with rising prices.
Last week all three leading indices on Wall Street broke the all-time record, with the Dow Jones moving towards the 20,000 point level.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts are pointing of a slight increase at the opening of the stock markets on Wall Street ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen at the University of Baltimore.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 11:55 (GMT+1)
German business confidence at the height of 3 years
Business confidence index IFO institute’s biggest economy in the Euro zone rose in December to 111 points, compared to 110.4 points last month.
This is the highest level of the index since February 2014.
The economists forecast was to more moderate increase in the index to 110.5 points.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 08:45 (GMT+1)
Japan’s exports in November rose with the weakening of the Japanes yen and rising demand in markets outside Japan.
According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, the exports in November rose by 7.4% compared with the same month last year, and decreased by 1.4% compared to the previous month.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets trading is conducted with price declines.
The FTSE withdrew from a seven-week peak and down 0.3%, the DAX trading unchanged, and the CAC decreasing by 0.4%.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
The oil prices rise today in light of the cessation of oil supplies from Libya.
The WTI oil is rising by 0.6% to 52.2 US dollar per barrel and the Brent oil rising by 0.4% to 55.4 US dollar per barrel.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)
Asian trade is conducted with price declines on a background of tensions between China and the United States.
On Friday China seized an unmanned submarine of the US Navy in the South China Sea.
Market News Briefing – December 16th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
Wall Street doesn’t stop.
The Dow Jones is expected to continue to approach today to 20,000 points, while the futures contracts on indices on Wall Street signaled a rise of 0.2% with the opening of the trading today.
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