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Swing and trend reading analysis for the week beginning Sunday October 20th

Is The Trend Still Your Friend

The trade balances and industrial activity numbers are published from Japan on Sunday evening, early Monday morning. The expectation is for Japan’s trade balance to worsen to ¥1.06 trillion and for the all industries activity to shrink to 0.3% from the previous month of 0.5%. These figures will be published shorty after Japanese officials have […]

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China’s growth in line with expectations but exports fall sharply

Mind The Gap

Despite the figures for China’s growth coming in line with expectations the data published by the national bureau of statistics wasn’t all good. The GDP readings keep China on track to achieve the government’s 2013 growth target of 7.5%, stronger than other major economies, but it’s still the worst performance for the country in 23

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What’s your ‘favourite’ indicator and why? And why those who say they only use price action are missing other critical information..

Between the lines

Many in our community will read our “is the trend still your friend?” article published early every Monday morning. In the article we highlight the preceding week’s major fundamental high impact news events and the coming week’s high impact news events. Then we begin the tricky task of predicting which way the market will move

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The USA debt ceiling compromise is not enough to rally European markets

Mind The Gap

In our latest morning roll call we highlighted the fact that, despite the USA avoiding a potentially catastrophic financial meltdown by way of a default, only a temporary solution was reached. We’re left with a totally unsatisfactory situation were milestones and obstacles in mid December, January and finally February 7th will haunt any progress towards

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European car sales rally 5.5%, whilst the markets now wait and hope for a debt ceiling resolution

Mind The Gap

There was good news from the European car sector in this mornings financial news, European sales have improved by 5.5%. However, that news needs tempering with the realisation that the numbers bounced up from an incredibly low point reached during the summer months.  Sales rose 5.5% during September compared to a year ago, making it

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Fitch Places United States’ ‘AAA’ on Rating Watch Negative

Morning Roll Call

Finally one of the most respected rating agencies has broken rank over the USA debt ceiling deadlock by technically lowering the USA credit rating. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had stated on Tuesday evening (USA time) that the major credit rating agencies were considering a downgrade of the United States “as early as tonight,” as

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