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The Bank Of Japan Maintains Stimulus Sending USD/JPY Through 100 Barrier As Australian Trade Balance Crashes Into The Red At its monthly meeting Japan’s central bank, (the BOJ), decided to maintain its stimulus (monetary easing) at the same rate of...
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UK Services Index Reaches 60.5, The Fastest Growth Rate In Six Years Similar to many developed economies the UK’s economy is dominated by the service sector which is responsible for up to 75% of the country’s economy and is therefore the biggest...
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UK Posts More Optimistic Data; UK Construction Rises At Sharpest Level For Six Years In the overnight/early morning Asian-Australasian session the announcement that the RBA base rate was kept at 2.5% was in line with market expectations. The accompanying...
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The European manufacturing recovery continues in August by reaching a 26 month high… Markit economics has published several European manufacturing PMIs this morning, many of which have generated positive market sentiment after reaching recent highs....
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Aug 29, 13 •
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Oil Spikes As Western Military Intervention In The Syrian Conflict Appears Increasingly Likely. Soc Gen Predicts Price Could Rise To $150 Per Barrel. The Dubai stock market picked up where it finished yesterday by dropping almost 6% shortly after the market...
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Aug 27, 13 •
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USA debt ceiling may replace tapering as the new market ‘meme’… There was a time, before monetary easing to infinity was introduced in the first months of 2013, when the market meme concerned the fiscal cliff. In December 2012 you...
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ECB’s Jens Weidmann states that monetary policy has now entered unknown and dangerous areas It’s not the most obvious statement the ECB, or one of its officials has ever uttered, but it must be right up there with the best. Jens Weidmann appears...
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China’s PMI hits a four month high in August, whilst European markets rally on strong PMIs China started the encouraging PMI report round-up in the Asian session by printing a better than expected 50.1 reading. The previous month’s reading was...
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Aug 21, 13 •
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Markets focus on FOMC meeting minutes published at 7pm UK time Market commentators, analysts and traders will immediately focus on the Fed minutes this evening to see if there’s any ‘code’ contained therein suggesting the timing and a date...
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In the overnight – early morning session the RBA minutes were published containing the reasons why, in its latest meeting on August 7th, the Australian central bank decided to cut its base interest rate by 0.25% to 2.5%. In the policy meeting notes the...
