Last week, the British currency weakened against both the dollar and euro, as Bank of England head Mark Carney said eventual interest-rate hikes will be gradual, while data signaled the pace of economic growth in the nation slowed in the third quarter...
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2 December 2015, 19:11 #eur/gbp, ECB, GBP/USD
Kit Juckes, a currency strategist at Societe Generale, thinks there will be something serious at next Thursday's ECB meeting...
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26 November 2015, 15:23 #Mario Draghi, ECB
The possibility of a Fed interest-rate hike next month is at 74%, based on futures prices, shows CME Group’s FedWatch. That consensus has been buoyed by the recent hawkish Fed talk, with the U.S. dollar a big beneficiary...
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25 November 2015, 10:08 #Fed
IG market analyst Angus Nicholson said recently that until commodities begin to recover — in particular, copper — global stock markets will struggle for much upside...
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20 November 2015, 13:56 #copper, silver, stocks
Convinced by the minutes, Deutsche Bank decided to join the consensus awaiting a December rates increase in the U.S...
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19 November 2015, 20:17 #FOMC, Fed
Holger Zschaepitz from Die Welt revealed this chart to show that the NYSE Arca Defense Index has outperformed the S&P 500 since 2000 by an impressive 1,200 percentage points...
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19 November 2015, 13:37 #investing, stocks, S&P 500
Although Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has taken a hawkish stance in her recent speeches, Craig Nicol from Deutsche Bank believes the odds of a rate increase in the U.S. are actually falling...
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18 November 2015, 12:09 #Fed
Analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman predict December to become “a month to remember,” with market players awaiting the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank to diverge. Meanwhile, analysts at BNP Paribas predict euro-dollar parity citing the cross-currents of Fed and ECB December expectations...
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17 November 2015, 20:11 #Mario Draghi, ECB, Fed
Travel stocks are bearing the burden of Monday’s selloff, reflecting fears that European tourism will be hit by worries over terrorism...
Market News
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16 November 2015, 12:17 #stocks
Ben Carlson from "A Wealth of Common Sense" blog has fulfilled some calculations to get really striking statistics. He notes that the worst 30-year total return on the S&P 500 was close to 850...
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14 November 2015, 15:34 #stocks, S&P 500