The Asian markets ended the trading day with a mixed trend.
Shanghai stock exchange fell by 2.5%, the sharpest daily decline in six months.
Hong Kong has weakened by 1.4%, Seoul rose by 0.1% and Tokyo rose by 0.8%.
Month: December 2016
Market News Briefing – December 12th 2016 08:45 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets opened the trading day with gains, due to the increase in oil prices.
The FTSE rising by 0.1%, the DAX also increased by 0.1%, the CAC strengthened by 0.2%.
Market News Briefing – December 12th 2016 07:45 (GMT+1)
The industrial machinery orders in Japan rose in October by 4.1% compared to the previous month, beyond analysts’ expectations of a 1% increase.
The industrial machinery orders is considered an important indicator of capital spending in the next 9-6 months.
Market News Briefing – December 12th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
Wall Street stock exchanges trading will be conducted this week in anticipation of the US interest rate decision.
The believe in the markets is that the Fed will decide this week to raise the interest rates to 0.5% -0.75% – a year after raising the interest rate last time.
Market News Briefing – December 9th 2016 12:30 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on Wall street traded today (Friday) a positive trend
Today at 15: 00 (UK time) the preliminary figure of US consumer sentiment index will be published. and it is expected to be a figure of 94.3 points.
Market News Briefing – December 9th 2016 11:00 (GMT+1)
The British exports reached to a peak in October, according to official data released today in the kingdom and voted on narrowing the country’s trade deficit.
According to the UK Office of National Statistics, exports of goods trade deficit of the United Kingdom in October to 9.7 billion pounds (12.2 billion dollars), compared with 13.8 billion pounds in September.
Market News Briefing – December 9th 2016 09:45 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets opened the trading day with price rises, although yesterday the ECB cut the quantitative easing, he will extend its validity.
Market News Briefing – December 9th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
The price of oil rose yesterday after a reported that the US oil inventories fell by 2.4 million barrels last week, compared with an expected decline of 1.4 million barrels.
Market News Briefing – December 9th 2016 07:15 (GMT+1)
The unemployment claims in the US this week was of 258 thousand new claims, as expected.
Last week reported 268 thousand claims.
Market News Briefing – December 9th 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)
The trading on Wall Street ended on Thursday with gains and actually broke new records for the 13th time since Donald Trump was voted to be the US president.
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