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Equities gain ahead of Trump; CLP collapses
Summary: US stocks make record highs ahead of key Trump speech US500 hits 3100; DE30 tags 13300 Chilean peso collapses UK employment falls and wage growth slows It has been...
US stocks make record highs ahead of key Trump speech
Summary: US benchmarks hit new record peak Trump speech at 5PM (GMT) the main event Focus will be on any trade comments It has been a fairly sanguine start to the w...
Dax, Wall Street close to highs as investors await Trump
Equity indices are close to 2019 highs both in the US for US500, US100 and US30 and in Europe for DE30 and FRA40 as traders await two key signals from the US president. First, Trump will provide remar...
Victory odds shorten for the Tories after BXP support
Summary: Brexit party to not contest Tory seats Seen as a major boost to the prospects of a majority Pound jumps in response before fading back It’s been near...
UK employment falls and wage growth slows
Summary: More soft data from the UK Employment change drops; Wage growth falls GBPNZD looking to push higher ahead of RBNZ Even though the unemployment rate ticked back down to...
New Zealand’s expected inflation drops ahead of RBNZ rate decision
Summary: 2-year expected inflation in New Zealand falls to the lowest since Q4 2016 RBNZ is likely to slash interest rates this evening to the lowest on record Market-based expectations sugges...
Economic calendar: Investors await Trump’s speech
Trump to deliver speech on trade UK labour data for September expected to mimic reading for August German ZEW index forecasted to jump higher 9:30 am GMT - UK, labour market report for...
Morning wrap
US indices finished yesterday’s session roughly unchanged; in turn Asian markets are trading higher this morning with the Japanese NIKKEI leading the gains and climbing as much as 0.8%, elsewhere ...
Busy day for GBP traders; indices look to recover from soft start
Summary: Pound jumps as Farage announces Tory support UK GDP bounces back but data still soft Wall St. starts lower There’s been a sharp move higher in the pound in recent trad...
Wall St. starts lower
Summary: US benchmarks slide to start the week Asian trade weight on sentiment US500 dips below H1 cloud All the US indices are trading in red shortly after the start of the ca...
Breaking news: Pound jumps As Farage announces Tory support
There’s been a sharp move higher in the pound in recent trade after Nigel Farage has announced that his Brexit party won’t contest the 317 Tory seats won in 2017. This is potentially a major developme...
UK GDP bounces back but data still soft
Summary: UK avoids technical recession Other data still points to a slowdown 1.2750 a level to watch in GBPUSD To start the week a plethora of data releases from the UK h...
Economic calendar: UK data the stand out
Quiet on the data front with several countries observing bank holidays for remembrance day. France, Belgium and Poland are off today as well as the US and Canada so volumes could be subdued. ...
Morning wrap
US indices ended last week with a fairly positive session with the Nasdaq adding +0.48%, S&P500 +0.26%, DJIA eking out a tiny +0.02% gain. On the whole it was a solid week for the major benchma...
Indices mixed amidst trade headlines; CAD drops after jobs miss
Summary: Boost from trade headlines starting to fade? UK markets on course of rmixed week Gold drops to 3-week low CAD drops after jobs data misses Crypto newsletter: Ripple...
