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  • Mind The Gap; the mid morning London and European markets update pre New York’s open

    Aug 14, 13 • 2791 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; the mid morning London and European markets update pre New York’s open

    Eurozone out of recession, Germany’s improved GDP, France out of recession, whilst UK unemployment holds steady… Many of the economists’ predictions, with regards to today’s high impact news events, have become fact. Both French and...

  • Mind The Gap; London session update pre the New York open…

    Aug 13, 13 • 2864 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; London session update pre the New York open…

    UK inflation falls to 2.8%, German inflation is 1.9%, ZEW index posts at 42 and the Nikkei rose on optimism that corporate tax rates will be slashed as part of Abenomic push. Many commuters will have missed the irony that on the day the UK’s inflation...

  • Mind The Gap, a mid morning round up of London session activity before New York opens

    Aug 12, 13 • 2967 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap, a mid morning round up of London session activity before New York opens

    Japan’s preliminary GDP figure disappoints, causing both yen values and the Nikkei to fall Japan’s economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.6% between April and June, falling some way short of the economists polled by Bloomberg forecast of 3.6%...

  • Mind The Gap, mid morning London session update before the New York open

    Aug 8, 13 • 2914 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap, mid morning London session update before the New York open

    China’s economic data exceeds expectations whilst Germany exports fall in June  There were several high impact news events released in the overnight and early morning trading session that have positively affected market sentiment. We received the...

  • Mind The Gap; London session update before New York’s bell

    Aug 7, 13 • 3104 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; London session update before New York’s bell

    Forward guidance, the Bank of England delivers its policy through Mark Carney It’s an interesting phenomena, “forward guidance”, the new verbal concept many central banks are currently using to describe their mid to long term policy. There...

  • Mind The Gap; London trading session up date before New York opens

    Aug 6, 13 • 3111 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; London trading session up date before New York opens

    Australia cuts its base rate to 2.5%, UK house prices rise significantly A news event that didn’t rate as high impact, due to it being considered ‘secular’ to the UK economy and not having international reach, was the publication of UK house...

  • Mind The Gap; mid morning London session update before the New York open

    Aug 5, 13 • 3480 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; mid morning London session update before the New York open

    UK services PMI rockets to 60.2 beating expectations of 57.4 As reported in our ‘Between The Lines’ section this morning the UK services PMI was a high impact news event that had the potential to affect market sentiment. The number was of...

  • Mind The Gap; mid morning London session update prior to the New York opening bell

    Aug 1, 13 • 7577 Views • Featured Articles, Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; mid morning London session update prior to the New York opening bell

    The Eurozone manufacturing sector returns to growth as the UK’s manufacturing rises sharply In our Between The Lines section we’d mentioned the importance of the publication of the PMIs relating to: the UK, individual European countries, the...

  • Mind The Gap; mid morning London session update pre New York’s open

    Jul 31, 13 • 6966 Views • Featured Articles, Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; mid morning London session update pre New York’s open

    All eyes on the FOMC statement later today Many investors and traders will be keeping a ‘weather-eye’ on the FOMC meeting statement to be delivered by Ben Bernanke, he’s due to begin his narrative at 2:00 PM USA time. Typically analysts and...

  • Mind The Gap; London Trading Session Update Pre The New York Bell

    Jul 30, 13 • 3841 Views • Mind The Gap Comments Off on Mind The Gap; London Trading Session Update Pre The New York Bell

    Is the pain in Spain falling? The GDP figure for Spain’s economy has been published this morning and it reveals a very slowly healing economy according to the latest GDP number. However, the majority of analysts are still adopting a glass half empty...