
The US Commerce Department said today that the US housing starts in June were up by 4.8% to an annual rate of 1.19 million homes.
This is the highest rate since February and compared with an annual rate of 1.14 million homes in May.

The US Commerce Department said today that the US housing starts in June were up by 4.8% to an annual rate of 1.19 million homes.
This is the highest rate since February and compared with an annual rate of 1.14 million homes in May.

Two and a half hours before the opening of the trading in New York the futures contracts are going down by 0.3%.

The European stock exchanges trading takes place this morning with declines, a continuation to the negative trend in Asia earlier .
In Japan there is a high expectation that the central bank will act to weaken the Japanese yen in order to give incentive the local economy.

Wall Street stock markets closed yesterday with gains.
The indices Dow Jones and S&P 500 ended the trading day at a new nominal height.

Bank of America Corp., the second-largest US bank by assets, reported about a profit of 36 cents per share in the second quarter of this year, compared with a profit of 45 cents a year earlier.
Analysts had a profit forecast of 33 cents per share.

The Euro getting stronger against the US dollar by 0.2% and was trading at about 1.1055 dollars to the Euro.
The Japanese yen weakened against the US dollar by 0.5% and was trading at about 105.43 yen to the dollar.
The British pound strengthened against the US dollar by 0.4% and traded at about 1.3243 dollars to the pound.

The futures contracts point on a rise at the start of the trading week on Wall Street, compared a mixed trend on the European stock markets, and a similar trend in Asian stock markets.
INTEL
Long term trade
On a weekly chart we can see that the price of the stock rose and broke above a triangle pattern as part of his rising trend.

Last week the stock ended at the price level 35.07.
The trading volumes were high and the indicators of MACD and RSI supports this trend.
For Forex traders:
Buy between the levels of : 35.00 – 35.30.
Stop loss point : 30.00.
Take profit point : 45.00.
For Binary options traders:
A call option between the levels of : 35.00 – 35.30.
Expiry time : end of the day, September 30.

The Turkish Lira is recovering this morning after an unsuccessful coup attempt which shook the country and the local currency.
State officials tried yesterday to reassure investors before the opening of the trading day this morning, and promised that the central bank will provide the liquidity required for business entities.

Jefferies investment bank raised his price target for gold to $1,400 an ounce compared to the previous target price of $1,200 an ounce.