Wall Street expected to open today in stability.
The futures contracts on the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500 and the Dow Jones all point to increases of less than 0.1%.
Market News Briefing – Aug 12th 2016 11:00 (GMT+1)
Euro zone second quarter grew by 0.3% compared to the first quarter.
These data are compatible with the earlier growth estimates.
Over the same period last year, the Euro zone grew by 1.6% and the EU by 1.8%.
Market News Briefing – Aug 12th 2016 10:00 (GMT+1)
Data released in China today indicate of a slowdown in the real estate market.
The home sales rose by 41.2% in the first seven months of this year, compared with an increase of 44% in January-June.
Market News Briefing – Aug 12th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
The European exchanges are in declines so far today before the publication of growth figures in the Euro zone.
Germany already posted encouraging growth data but they couldn’t pull the indices up.
Market News Briefing – Aug 12th 2016 08:00 (GMT+1)
Wall Street stock indices rose yesterday.
The Nasdaq, S&P 500 and the Dow Jones closed on a nominal peaks, the first time since December 1999 that the three indices closed at the height of the day.
The increases came following a surge in oil prices and at the background of macroeconomic data and positive financial reports released in the USA.
Market News Briefing – Aug 11th 2016 13:30 (GMT+1)
The number of US initial jobless claims remained virtually unchanged for the second consecutive week, and continues to be close to a record low of four decades.
It’s a evidence to the strength of the US labor market.
Market News Briefing – Aug 11th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on the leading indices on Wall Street signalling on positive trend at the opening of trading today, while in the background the volatility in oil prices, a mixed trend on European stock exchanges, and after a mixed trend at the Asian stock markets.
Yesterday the trading on Wall Street ended with declines.
Market News Briefing – Aug 11th 2016 09:15 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets trading is conducted in a mixed trend, after the negative trend yesterday, which was the first decline after six days of gains.
FTSE drops by 0.6%, the DAX rising by 0.15%,the CAC is unchanged.
Market News Briefing – Aug 11th 2016 08:00 (GMT+1)
The Asian stock markets trading is conducted today with a positive trend in view of the falling oil prices.
The WTI oil falling by 0.4% this morning to a price of 41.5 dollars a barrel, following a decline of 2.5% yesterday stemmed from an increase in output in the United States and Saudi Arabia.
Market News Briefing – Aug 10th 2016 16:45 (GMT+1)
US inventories data:
The US Energy Manager reported a short while ago that the WTI oil inventories increased last week by 1.1 million barrels, while the expectation was for a decline of 1.75 million barrels.
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