Market News Briefing – November 7th 2016 12:30 (GMT+1)

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The futures contracts on Wall Street are signalling a rise at the start of the new trading week.
Last Friday Wall Street ended with declines, following the publication of the US employment report for October.
The report showed an increase of 161 thousand US jobs last month.
The unemployment rate stood at 4.9%.
Economists expected an increase of approximately 174 thousand of new jobs and a decline of 0.1% in the unemployment rate to 4.9%.

Market News Briefing – November 3rd 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)

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The trading on Wall Street stock markets ended yesterday with declines, after the interest rate decision at the Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve.
As expected, the interest rate was left unchanged in the range of 0.25-0.5 percent.
In a daily summary, the Dow Jones fell by 0.3%, the S&P 500 was down by 0.6% and the Nasdaq retreated by 0.9%.