Global central bankers, eager to see the economy stand on its own feet, faced the rude reality this week of market turmoil threatening already faltering growth and prolonging world reliance on easy money. Stocks slumped again on Wednesday pushing S&P 500 losses to almost 8 percent since mid-Sept…
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Central bankers may have no quick fix as markets swoon, economy weakens
For the third time since the end of the financial crisis, market volatility is soaring at the same time the Federal Reserve walks away from a stimulus program. Just a week after the steepest price swings since 2011, turbulence shot up again yesterday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU)…
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Another Market Monsoon Greets Fed Curtailing QE Buying
The following are the intraday outlooks for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, EUR/GBP, and AUD/NZD as provided by the technical strategy team at SEB Group. EUR/USD: Resistance noted at ‘Equality point’. The market soared on poor data taking the better out of an already crowded trade. The move however was halte…
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Intraday Outlooks For EUR/USD, USD/JPY, EUR/GBP, AUD/NZD – SEB
A lot of investors are looking at Greece on Wednesday and seeing shadows of the financial crisis. Greek stocks took their worst beating since the height of the eurozone crisis on Wednesday. The country’s 10-year borrowing costs shot up by more than 80 basis points to 7.85 percent. News out of Gre…
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Three things about Greece you need to know
The global economy faces its biggest test of confidence since the European sovereign debt crisis as investors fear it’s running out of engines. Japan and the euro area are throwing up fresh signs of weakness by the day and emerging markets such as China are dragging instead of driving growth. The…
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World Economy Gives Investors Growth Scare as They Look to U.S.
Trading a technical strategy can have its challenges, one of which is how to quickly analyze and asses the market. To help in this process, DailyFX has a wide variety of charting resources available to assist traders in navigating the twists and turns of the market. The Technical Analyzer found on…
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Foreclosure activity across the United States declined last month to the lowest level since July 2006, as banks reclaimed fewer homes, according to a report released on Thursday. RealtyTrac, which tracks housing market data, reported foreclosure filings for 106,866 properties across the country…
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U.S. foreclosure activity falls to eight-year low
Economic forecasts from the Federal Government’s Expert Group – Autumn 2014 …
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Swiss SECO: Slightly lower growth forecasts, with increased down-side risks
Volatility, the critical ingredient investors need to trade, started to gradually creep back into financial markets late in the third quarter. That prompted idle traders worldwide to take positions once again. But is that market volatility sustainable as 2015 inches near? It depends on three market…
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3 Things Driving Financial Market Volatility in 2015
Economic reports are taking on increasing import as Europe’s economic trend weakens and the crowd becomes fearful that the US may be susceptible to the deceleration that’s swirling about the globe. …
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3 Numbers: Eurozone CPI sparks deflation concerns, US jobs, US output
What a dismal time for bond traders who were optimistic about growth. Investors who poured more than $1 billion this year into a $3.8 billion leveraged exchange-traded fund that bets against long-dated U.S. Treasuries are suffering a 10.7 percent loss this month alone, Bloomberg data show. The fu…
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Biggest Pain Trade Gives 37% Loss to Bond Bears Getting It Wrong
Being rich is great. Being the richest person in your state is the greatest. That must be how Bill Gates and 49 other heavy-hitting Americans feel, after Wealth-X released a report ranking the wealthiest individuals in each state. Gates tops the list as the richest Washingtonian, with an estimat…
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The richest person in all 50 US states
We remain of the view that elevated speculative short positioning and further stabilizing monetary policy expectations will lead to a further correction higher in EUR/USD. Weaker than expected US retail sales should come to the detriment of both, inflation and growth expectations. This in turn …
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EUR/USD: Weak US Data Supportive; Staying Long For 1.31 – Credit Agricole
China’s broadest measure of new credit rose to a three-month high in September, suggesting the central bank’s targeted measures to boost liquidity have helped spur lending. Aggregate financing was 1.05 trillion yuan ($171 billion), the People’s Bank of China said today in Beijing, compared with t…
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China Credit Growth Rebounds as PBOC’s Targeted Easing Kicks In
While Australian fixed income investors are growing more concerned about domestic risks, they continue to rank China’s hard landing as the top risk for Australian credit markets, Fitch Ratings said Wednesday. On the domestic front, “Investors have become more concerned about Australian housing an…
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Fitch: China Hard Landing Still Top Risk For Australian Invstrs
– China drew $87.4 billion (54.65 billion pounds) in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first nine months of 2014, down 1.4 percent from a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday. …
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China Jan-Sept inbound FDI down 1.4 percent year-on-year
Technical Sentiment: Bullish Key Takeaways •Euro posted large gains on Wednesday against a basket of currencies; •The Canadian Dollar tumbled lower throughout the day but appears stable now; •EUR/CAD is showing a bullish swing configuration of Higher Highs; •Buyers face a major resistance clust…
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EUR/CAD: Turned Bullish or Completed Correction?
A sharp slide in Japanese stocks led Asian equities down on Thursday, as a maelstrom of concern about global growth drove U.S. Treasury yields lower and weighed on the dollar. Data released on Wednesday showed U.S. retail sales and producer prices both dropped last month, a worrisome economic sig…
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Asian shares skid, dollar drops on global woes
In the U.S., climate change is likely to increase average daily temperatures and the frequency of heat waves. Dairy cows are particularly sensitive to heat stress and, according to a new USDA study, by 2030, milk production will have lowered to the point that additional economic costs will exceed …
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Milk Is About to Become Really Expensive
Traditionally, the word capitulation describes a surrender between fighting armies. What is capitulation when it’s used on Wall Street? What does it signify? We explain. What is capitulation? In simple terms, capitulation is when investors try to get out of the stock market as quickly as possible…
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Capitulation: CNBC Explains
