It’s a relatively quiet week for economic calendar news, due to the Xmas holiday period, however, Asian economic news (particularly from Japan), comes thick and fast and will include the latest CPI figure, which has remained extremely low at 0.2% annually, despite the various stimulus measures put in place as part of prime minster Abe’s […]
Throughout 2017, the promise of Trump’s flagship tax cutting programme, has bolstered the value of equities, as investors have immediately translated the cut as substantial increased profits for major corporates, leading to increased shareholder rewards and dividends. With the programme now only a step away from becoming law, it would appear that the markets have
As we’ve now entered the final two weeks of the trading year, many of us will slow down our trading, particularly if we’re manual day traders we’ll consider simply downing tools for a week or so. If we trade on a fully automated basis, then we’ll maybe consider disengaging our expert advisor over the holiday
The Trump flagship tax reform programme took a step closer to becoming law on Tuesday. Having passed a vote in the House of Representatives, the bill now passes to the Senate for final approval on Wednesday, before Trump gets the opportunity to sign off the reduction into becoming law. Questions as to what it must
Ask a colleague, friend, or family member what they knew about Bitcoin, or crypto currencies back in 2015 and the likelihood is that you’d be faced with a blank stare. This year the Bitcoin phenomenon has truly gone mainstream. It’s impossible to compare the mania and craze to recent stock market events, such as the
Trump was inaugurated in January, having been successful in the USA’s election with the pitch to “make America great again”. It’s taken a year for his Republican Party to finally arrive at the stage were just one of his key election promises looks like it’s coming to fruition; tax cuts. However, the USA electorate were
It’s fascinating watching television coverage of the markets, particularly when, for example, Bloomberg switch to a trading floor at the NYSE. As far back as 2010, estimates suggested that between 50-70% of all stock trading on Wall Street was conducted by high frequency trading algorithms. As we reached 2012 the leading USA investment bank Morgan
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As widely expected the FOMC raised the upper bound interest rate to 1.5%, the Fed’s committee also confirmed that it would begin to reduce it’s massive $4.5 trillion balance sheet, by $20b a month, beginning in February 2018. The FOMC also committed to repeat the exercise witnessed in 2017; raising interest rates three times in
Outside of the fundamental analysis we have to continually conduct, concerning the economic calendar events that are released and published each trading day, we also have to develop skills in order to learn how to analyse technical analysis. Whilst we have to learn to analyse both of these distinct and influential factors, we also have
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On Friday December 8th at 13:30pm GMT, the BLS department of the U.S. government will publish its latest NFP (non farm payroll) data reading and its last for 2017. Combined with this NFP data another crucial economic calendar metric, the latest unemployment data, will also be delivered, currently at 4.1% the forecast is for the
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