The futures contracts are traded at a price declines of up to 0.2%, suggesting that Wall Street stock exchanges are expected to open with price declines.
Market News Briefing – December 21st 2016 12:00 (GMT+1)
U.K. public sector borrowing rose more-than-expected in the last quarter.
The national statistics office said that the U.K. public sector net borrowing rose to a seasonally adjusted 12.21B, from 4.32B in the preceding quarter whose figure was revised up from 4.30B.
Market News Briefing – December 21st 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
The Brent oil rises at this time by 0.4% to a price level of 55.6 US dollar per barrel.
The WTI oil is rising by 0.5% to a price level of 53.4 US dollar per barrel.
Market News Briefing – December 21st 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)
There is a mixed trend in Asia this morning, with a decline in Tokyo in front of the Chinese stock markets which rising.
The Nikkei falls by 0.3%, Shanghai rising by 0.9% and the Hang Seng is down 0.6%.
Market News Briefing – December 20th 2016 15:00 (GMT+1)
A positive opening in Wall Street..
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 0.5% to a new record, within reach of the 20,000 points.
Market News Briefing – December 20th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
The Wall Street futures contracts are traded with gains.
Market News Briefing – December 20th 2016 09:30 (GMT+1)
The European markets are trading so far today in a mixed trend, in view of the terrorist attacks in Berlin and Turkey yesterday.
Market News Briefing – December 20th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
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.
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.
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