Global equities moved higher earlier this week on the trade and economic news from China, but stagnated on both Thursday and Friday for investors. Six of the world’s central banks have already moved forward with negative interest rates. The most notable ones are the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). The actions have helped to encourage demand and bring some price stability, by averting deflation. About 25% of world output, is now produced in areas that have interest […]
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Weekly Market Review & Target Fills April Week 2
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has revised downward global trade growth for 2016 from 3.9% to 2.8%. This is the same rate of growth for 2015 and it is the fifth year in a row, that it has remained below 3%. The slowdown in China and the volatility in world markets, continue to depress growth on a broad level. The present divide among officials in the United States Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) between those that think interest rates should be raised immediately […]
Weekly Market Review & April Week 1
The week began with markets closed for the Easter holiday in Europe and in Hong Kong. Asian indices were mostly in the red on Monday. In contrast, the major exchanges in the United States started positive for investors. The most important financial news of the week was the announcement by the United States Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Janet Yellen, that there was no urgency to increase interest rates at this time. There was also further indication that instead of four rate rises […]
Weekly Market Review & Target Fills March Week 4
This week was dominated by two events, the terrorist attacks in Belgium and the increasing talk of a possible interest rate rise by the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States. Together they put a halt on an ongoing 5 week rally for investors in the global markets, that had erased most of the losses from earlier this year. The Central Bank of the United States some claim may raise interest rates as early as next month. Other analysts disagree, but the […]
Weekly Market Review & Target Fills March Week 3
This week saw a general movement up for most world markets. In the United States (U.S.) the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) moved into positive territory on Thursday, for the first time this year. It has been a remarkable comeback from the worst start ever for this key exchange. The composite is now above 17,600 points. The American S&P 500 reached its highest level for 2016 this week. These developments were largely the results of stabilizing oil prices, easing recessionary fears and […]
Weekly Market Review & Target Fills March Week 2
The week began on the positive side for investors with markets in the United States advancing for the third week in a row. This was directly the result of the jobs report from last Friday confirming the creation of 242,000 jobs in the month of February of which 230,000 originated in the private sector. The performance in the markets were also correlated to two other factors which included, rising crude prices and the hope of more stimulus by the ECB (European Central […]
Weekly Market Review March Week 1
There was a broad recovery in oil prices this week. American WTI (West Texas Intermediate) bounced back above $34.00 USD (United States Dollar) and international priced Brent moved above $37.00 USD. The problem for investors remains oversupply. The world will use about 95 million barrels of crude and other liquid fuels a day in 2016. This is an increase of 1.2 million from last year. The problem remains that there will be a surplus production of well over 1 million barrels a […]
Weekly Market Review & Target Fills February Week 4
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Weekly Market Review & Target Fills February Week 3
The week began with a mini rally in equity markets due to reports that top officials from Russia, Qatar, Venezuela and most importantly Saudi Arabia, had agreed in principle to freeze oil output at the level achieved in January. The meeting had resulted from the financial hardship, that was being caused by crude dipping to prices not seen since 2003. This was causing investors to abandon oil in droves. The two biggest producers are Saudi Arabia and Russia, with daily oil output at […]
Weekly Market Review & Target Fills February Week 2
The week began with global equity markets in retreat, on fears of further recession growing across the world. It followed the poor job creation performance in the United States released last Friday. Although official unemployment is at 4.9% only 151,000 were created last month, when 190,000 was expected. The main driver of news this week was again the price of crude and the effect it was having on world markets. On Thursday, rising oil inventories brought American WTI (West Texas Intermediate) to below […]