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Japan's Market Drama Continues To Amaze:Update
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 - May 16, 2013

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 ...

 
Empire State Manufacturing Unexpectedly Contracts
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 - May 16, 2013

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 ...

 
Producer Price Index: Headline Inflation Drops 0.7%, Core Rises 0.1%
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 - May 16, 2013

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: Stronger Than Expected GDP
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 - May 16, 2013

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 ...

 
FX Futures Edge: World Economy Weakening
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Wednesday's Daily Technicals
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
UK Labour Mkt., US Ind. Pro., US NAHB Housing
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Daily Briefing : May 15, 2013
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
ZEW Results Weigh On Euro
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Dollar Firms, Euro Area Contracts, Sterling Recovers And The Nikkei Soar
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 - May 15, 2013

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...

 
Weak GDP Data From Europe Causes Concern
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Dollar Extended Rally With Stocks And Yield, Eurozone GDP Watched
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
What Japanese Investors Bought
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Further Increase In U.K Unemployment
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Germany: Q1 GDP Up 0.1% q/q
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Portfolio Theory: The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Parts
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

 
Banks Lift Wall Street To New Record Highs
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 - May 15, 2013

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 ...

CFDs Quotes
 SPX 500 Futures1663.95+15.95+0.97%  
 NQ 100 Futures3024.60+26.35+0.88%  
 US 3015354.79+121.57+0.80%  
 DAX8398.00+28.13+0.34%  
 FTSE 1006723.06+35.26+0.53%  
 Japan 22515138.12+100.88+0.67%  
 US Dollar Index84.34+0.44+0.52%  
CFDs Quotes
 Gold1357.75-29.15-2.10%  
 Silver22.190-0.469-2.07%  
 Copper3.316+0.021+0.64%  
 Crude Oil95.91+0.74+0.78%  
 Natural Gas4.059+0.127+3.23%  
 US Cotton No.286.34+0.32+0.37%  
 US Coffee C137.00-3.25-2.32%  
 
 EUR/USD1.2834-0.0048-0.37%  
 GBP/USD1.5168-0.0100-0.65%  
 USD/JPY103.19+0.93+0.90%  
 USD/CHF0.9724+0.0077+0.79%  
 AUD/USD0.9736-0.0072-0.73%  
 USD/CAD1.0276+0.0084+0.83%  
 EUR/GBP0.8462+0.0025+0.30%  
CFDs Quotes
 Euro Bund145.16-0.04-0.03%  
 Euro BTP116.57+0.68+0.59%  
 Euro BOBL126.675+0.060+0.05%  
 UK Gilt117.69-0.35-0.30%  
 US 2 YR T-Note110.25-0.02-0.02%  
 US 10 YR T-Note131.84-0.50-0.38%  
 US 30 YR T-Bond143.89-1.29-0.89%  
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