Wall Street stock exchanges closed yesterday with declines, ahead of the opening of the quarterly earnings season in the US.
Month: January 2017
Economic news from China – January 13th 2017 07:00 (GMT+1)
Figures published today in China showed that exports from the country fell in 2016 by 7.7% and the imports to China fell by 5.5%.
These data reflect the most sharp weakening of trade in China since 2009.
Wall Street – January 12th 2017 14:45 (GMT+1)
Declines on Wall Street with the opening of the trading day.
The Dow Jones and Nasdaq lost 0.6%, the S&P 500 fell by 0.5%.
US dollar – January 12th 2017 14:30 (GMT+1)
The US dollar weakened for a second consecutive day in front of the world’s major currencies after President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, didn’t presented a clear planned economic policy at his press conference held yesterday.
Economic news from the US – January 12th 2017 13:30 (GMT+1)
According to data published today in the USA:
US import prices jumped in December by the sharpest rate since 2012 (0.4%) and the number of initial jobless claims climbed during the first week of 2017 but remained close to the lowest level in decades.
Gold – January 12th 2017 12:45 (GMT+1)
The price of the gold rising to a level of 1,200 US dollar an ounce for the first time since November.
The precious metal rose by 2% since Trump’s press conference yesterday.
The futures contracts – January 12th 2017 12:30 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on major indexes in Wall street are predicting declines with the opening of trading today.
German GDP – January 12th 2017 12:00 (GMT+1)
German GDP figure showed an increase of 1.9%, above the government’s forecast of 1.8%.
2016 showed the fastest rate of growth in the German economy since 2011.
Forex – January 12th 2017 09:00 (GMT+1)
The US dollar weakened against the Euro and the British pound by 0.5% and 0.4% respectively.
The European stock markets – January 12th 2017 08:45 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets trading is conducted with declines.
London FTSE decreasing by 0.2%, the Dax in Frankfurt weakened by 0.4%, the CAC in Paris decreasing by 0.3%.
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