Market News Briefing – Oct. 5th 2016 08:00 (GMT+1)

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The trading on Wall Street stock exchanges ended yesterday with declines after a volatile trading day, following a report according to which the European Central Bank (ECB) may reduce the quantitative easing program (QE) in the Euro zone ahead of schedule.

The IMF cuts its forecast for US economic growth in the current year and to -2017.

Market News Briefing – Sept. 30th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)

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Wall Street indices ended yesterday with declines.
The Dow Jones lost 1.1%, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 shed 0.9% of their value.

Reflecting the drop, the growing concern of investors from the collapse of the Deutsche Bank which fell yesterday by 6.6%.
Since the peak in July 2015, Deutsche Bank’s share price fell 65% to a record low.
Its market value has been cut from 50 billion to 16 billion only.

Market News Briefing – Sept. 29th 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)

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Oil prices:

Following OPEC’s decision yesterday, an agreement to reduce the oil production to 32.5 million barrels a day, compared to 33.4 million, the oil prices jumped.
The WTI by 5.3% and was set at 47.05 dollars a barrel.
This morning there is a slight decline of 0.2% in WTI to 47 dollars per barrel.
The Brent falling by 0.5% to dollars 45.4 per barrel.

Market News Briefing – Sept. 26th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)

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The price of the WTI crude oil lost last Friday 4% and ended at a price level of 44.48 dollars per barrel.
It was the sharpest decline since July 13, but on a weekly summary the black liquid price rose by 2%.

Also last Friday, the price of the gold fell by 0.2% to a price level of 1341.7 dollars per ounce, but on a weekly summary the yellow metal recorded its best week since July, with an increase of 2.4%.