Note from dshort: With the Nikkei 225 breaking the 15,000 level, I decided to refresh the charts in this commentary. The index is up 88.0% from its November 2011 interim low. After months of ...
Until the past few months I've not routinely reported on monthly manufacturing data, regional or otherwise. However, now that I'm tracking the Big Four economic indicators, which includes Industrial ...
Yesterday's release of the April Producer Price Index (PPI) for finished goods shows a month-over-month decrease of 0.6%, seasonally adjusted, in Headline inflation. Core PPI rose 0.1%. Briefing.com ...
Japan reported a stronger than expected Q1 GDP expansion, confirming it was the fastest growing economy in the G7. Separately, the Ministry of Finance reported the third consecutive weekly net ...
FORECASTSTOCKS: The world economy is weakening: the US payroll tax increase and “sequestration” are pressuring the US economy; China is being pressured by Japan, and has ...
EUR/USD Today’s support: 1.2872(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2857, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.2827. Break of the latter would result in 1.2788. If a ...
Wednesday is an active day for economic releases, starting with flash Q1 GDP estimates for France (05:30 GMT) and Germany (06:00 GMT). Later, key updates to watch include the UK labour market report ...
CurrenciesEURUSD- the pair has broken its support zone on a 30 minute time frame. The RSI is showing that the bias could be to the downside.USDJPY- the price has broken out of a bullish flag pattern ...
The euro tumbled on Wednesday morning on disappointing figures from Germany and pessimistic forecasts for the region's economic data, due later in the day. The common currency neared a one-month low ...
The Dollar Index is trading at new 2013 highs, encouraged by the continuing sell-off of the yen and the weaker than expected euro area GDP, which contracted by 0.2% in Q1. However, the dollar's upside...
The EUR carries on dropping through the Asian session close to its 5 week low following some weak data to come out of both France and Germany. German GDP figure moved up 0.1 per cent, although below ...
The dollar extended its recent rally, together with U.S. equities and treasury yields overnight, and stayed firm in the Asian session. The DOW and S&P 500 jumped to a new record high of 15215.25 ...
Country specific data on Japanese portfolio capital outflows is lagged, like the US TIC data, by two months. The March data was recently released. This Great Graphic from Bloomberg shows Japanese ...
The labor market showed further signs of worsening in the three months through to March. The unemployment rate remained unchanged (at 7.8%), but employment was down by 43,000 in the quarter, and ...
Q1 GDP increased 0.1% q/q, following a 0.7% fall in Q4 (revised downward from -0.6% q/q). German economy was recovering slowly at the beginning of the year, but should gather speed in the second ...
One of the most mind-blowing implications of portfolio theory is that a well conceived portfolio has the potential to be much better, in terms of risk adjusted performance, than what we might expect ...
Headed by Bank of America and Citigroup, Wall Street was lifted to new record highs on Tuesday, as the stock market rally continues the ten consecutive days. Investors picked large-cap company shares ...
| SPX 500 Futures | 1663.95 | +15.95 | +0.97% | |||
| NQ 100 Futures | 3024.60 | +26.35 | +0.88% | |||
| US 30 | 15354.79 | +121.57 | +0.80% | |||
| DAX | 8398.00 | +28.13 | +0.34% | |||
| FTSE 100 | 6723.06 | +35.26 | +0.53% | |||
| Japan 225 | 15138.12 | +100.88 | +0.67% | |||
| US Dollar Index | 84.34 | +0.44 | +0.52% |
| Gold | 1357.75 | -29.15 | -2.10% | |||
| Silver | 22.190 | -0.469 | -2.07% | |||
| Copper | 3.316 | +0.021 | +0.64% | |||
| Crude Oil | 95.91 | +0.74 | +0.78% | |||
| Natural Gas | 4.059 | +0.127 | +3.23% | |||
| US Cotton No.2 | 86.34 | +0.32 | +0.37% | |||
| US Coffee C | 137.00 | -3.25 | -2.32% |
| Euro Bund | 145.16 | -0.04 | -0.03% | |||
| Euro BTP | 116.57 | +0.68 | +0.59% | |||
| Euro BOBL | 126.675 | +0.060 | +0.05% | |||
| UK Gilt | 117.69 | -0.35 | -0.30% | |||
| US 2 YR T-Note | 110.25 | -0.02 | -0.02% | |||
| US 10 YR T-Note | 131.84 | -0.50 | -0.38% | |||
| US 30 YR T-Bond | 143.89 | -1.29 | -0.89% |
| Central Banks | Interest Rates | Next Meeting | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FED | 0.00%-0.25% | Jun 19, 2013 | |||
| ECB | 0.50% | Jun 06, 2013 | |||
| BOE | 0.50% | Jun 06, 2013 | |||
| SNB | 0.00% | Jun 20, 2013 | |||
| RBA | 2.75% | Jun 04, 2013 | |||
| BOC | 1.00% | May 29, 2013 | |||
| RBNZ | 2.50% | Jun 12, 2013 | |||
| BOJ | 0.10% | May 22, 2013 | |||
