What We Can Expect From French President Hollande Negative Market Sentiment Grows Economic Calendar Events And Bond Auctions May 14 2012 A Look At The Global Markets A Close Look At The Eurozone The GBP vs. the USD and the EUR Investors Find Silver Lining in Negative Jobs Data
 
What Can We Expect From French President Hollande

What We Can Expect From French President Hollande

Today, Mr. Hollande will officially become the next French president. He will then announce his government. While it will only be a temporary government for up to one month until the French Deputy elections it will nonetheless send a message [...]

Negative Market Sentiment Grows

Negative Market Sentiment Grows

As the week starts, commodity markets continue to remain in despair and lingering in the broader weakness. Continuing political unrest in Greece, concerns over Spain’s banking sector and news of US bank giant JP Morgan’s $2bn losses reignited weak sentiments [...]

Economic Calendar Events And Bond Auctions May 14th 2012

Economic Calendar Events And Bond Auctions May 14 2012

Today, the economic calendar is rather thin with only the euro zone industrial production data and final figure of Italian CPI inflation. Euro area Finance Ministers meet in Brussels and Spain (12/18 month T-Bills), Germany (Bubills) and Italy (BTPs) will [...]

A Look At The Global Markets

A Look At The Global Markets

The US trade deficit widened in March to $51.8 billion, the Commerce Department reported. The trade deficit was above the consensus forecast of Wall Street economists of a deficit of $50 billion. Economists had expected the deficit to snap back, [...]

A Close Look At The Eurozone

A Close Look At The Eurozone

Today, there are again few important eco data on the calendar in Europe. In the US, the import prices, the March trade data and the jobless claims will be published. The jobless claims have most market moving potential. A better [...]

The GBP Versus The USD And The EUR

The GBP vs. the USD and the EUR

Yesterday, there was very little to tell on the price action in the EUR/GBP cross rate with little eco data coming off of a holiday on Monday. The pair remained in a narrow range roughly between 0.8050/75. The below consensus [...]

Negative Job Data

Investors Find Silver Lining in Negative Jobs Data

The Labour Department said Friday that the economy added just 115,000 jobs in April. Economists had expected a gain of 163,000. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent in April from 8.2 percent in March, but mostly because more people [...]

Market Review May 16 2012

16 May 2012

Markets traded with a negative bias again, with equities falling, the USD rallying, and commodities selling off. Bonds were fairly flat after yesterday’s rally. The Greek political parties have failed to form a coalition government and it seems as though [...]

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Gold And Silver After The Asian Session

Gold and Silver Review After The Asian Session

16 May 2012

Unfavourable tertiary industry activity data from Japan coupled with decline in the country’s machinery orders and failure of talks to form a New Greek government led to rise in risk aversion in the global markets today. This resulted Asian markets [...]

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Market Review May 15 2012

15 May 2012

The Euro currency is a malady that condemns at least a generation of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and Irish to the economic infirmary. In these nations, unemployment rates are now at their highest levels in recent decades, and there are [...]

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The Effects Of The Euro Mess On The EURGBP

May 14 am 2012

14 May 2012

The Effects Of The EU Mess On The EURGBP Sentiment on risk remained fragile and EUR/GBP tested offers just in 0.8000 areas in thin Asian trading conditions. Nevertheless, as was the case several times of late the euro tried to [...]

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Market Review May 14 2012

14 May 2012

Global markets were in double jeopardy this week, with continuing weakening of economic fundamentals worldwide along with steadily falling gains from different asset classes. US markets made another toppled closing this week with sharp sell-off in the banking shares due [...]

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Gold And Silver Review

Gold And Silver This Morning

11 May 2012

The Asian equities are trading mixed while the equities might pair in slightly after better banking and economic outlook. However, the Chinese inflation release early morning came out in line with expectation and may indicate some easing in near term [...]

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Market Review May 11 2012

11 May 2012

Economic Data for today After a mixed day on the eco data front on Thursday, with trade balances from around the globe and unemployment reports, today things quiet back down, the calendar is very thin, except for data from China, [...]

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Gold Price Falls On Global Sentiment

Gold Falls On Global Sentiment

10 May 2012

Gold fell for a third day, touching a four-month low and virtually wiping out its gains for 2012 as an escalation in the euro zone debt crisis and political turmoil prompted investors to move to dollars and German government bonds as safe havens. Political [...]

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Market Review May 10 2012

10 May 2012

Economic Data for May 10 2012 The calendar has been thin all week; today kicks off with Australia Unemployment numbers and Chinese Manufacturing and Trade Balance and continues to Japan for current account data and trade balance. In Europe, we [...]

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Market Review May 9 2012

09 May 2012

Economic Events for May 9, 2012 for the European and US Markets Today’s eco calendar is virtually bear, with only some local and regional released, which will not have any market affects. The main events coming up are begin on [...]

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