The price of the WTI oil price jumps by 2.2% to $ 42.7 per barrel.
The US Dollar is unchanged against the Euro, at an exchange rate of 1.107 Dollars per Euro.
Market News Briefing – Aug 8th 2016 14:00 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on Wall Street indicate price increases of up to 0.2% at the leading indexes.
Last Friday the indexes were closed with gains.
The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed at a new peak following a better than expected employment report in the US.
Market News Briefing – Aug 8th 2016 09:30 (GMT+1)
The European stock exchanges trading takes place with gains at the backdrop of encouraging data from Germany.
Data of the German Economy Ministry pointed to the strengthening of the country’s manufacturing output .
According to the data, industrial output in June rose by 0.8%, compared with forecasts for a rise of 0.7%.
Market News Briefing – Aug 8th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
The trading day on the Asian stock markets conducts with gains, led by Tokyo Stock Exchange after the publication of the minutes of meetings of the Monetary Committee by the bank of Japan, which decided to increase the incentives for the central market.
Market News Briefing – Aug 5th 2016 13:45 (GMT+1)
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The Canada employment picture saw a decline of 31.2K jobs, much lower than the +10K which was expected.
Market News Briefing – Aug 5th 2016 13:35 (GMT+1)
July jobs report smashed the early forecasts with an extra necklace of 255 thousand jobs, versus forecasts for the addition of only 180 thousand.
The futures contracts on Wall Street are at a positive direction after the report’s release.
This is the second consecutive NFP report which dramatically smashes the forecasts.
Breaking news – Aug 5th 2016 13:30 (GMT+1)
Details of the July 2016 US Non-farm payrolls data report:
255k vs expectation of 180k
Also:
Unemployment rate is 4.9% against expectation of 4.8%
Average hourly earnings is 0.3% against expectation of 0.2%
Market News Briefing – Aug 5th 2016 09:30 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets trade is conducted with rising prices ahead of the employment report to be published later today in the US.
London climbed by 0.6% after the interest rate cut in the UK to a low of 0.25%. Frankfurt rising by 0.3%, Paris is stronger by 0.7%.
Market News Briefing – Aug 5th 2016 08:15 (GMT+1)
The Asian stock markets trading is conducted in a positive trend this morning, after the interest rate cut in Britain, and ahead of the US employment report due to be published today at 13:30.
Market News Briefing – Aug 5th 2016 08:00 (GMT+1)
So far this morning the WTI oil went down by 0.9% to $ 41.5 per barrel, after the price has jumped by 6% over the last two days.
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