Fed Chairman James Bullard said yesterday that it is quite likely that there will be a rise in interest rates in December, unless there is some surprise. At the present stage, the money markets give a 90% probability to an increase in key rates at ...

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Since the election of Donald Trump there has been a strong and volatile rise in the most cyclical sectors (primarily banks, with the exception of the mining and oil sectors) and an abrupt decline in the more defensive and more sensitive sectors of ...

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Today, the Republican Party will elect its leader in the House of Representatives. This election will be a good opportunity to assess the relationship between the party and the President. One should notice that during the campaign, several ...

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Since Wednesday there has been a generalized rise in world yields, a movement that gains greater expression in those countries where public debt is high. In the short term, the rise in the US yields and the US Dollar have reached extreme levels and ...

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With the renegotiation of trade agreements and the lifting of customs barriers a more complex and time-consuming legislative process, investors seem to focus more on the new President’s intention to reduce taxes, reduce regulation in a number of ...

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Yesterday, Asian markets were the first to react to the outcome of the American elections and as such it was in that region that the falls were more pronounced. Thus, today’s recovery was a process of convergence of the Asian stock markets to the ...

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During the American session, the overperformance of the oil and defense sectors and an underperformance of the renewable energy companies of health services (which would be the sectors most benefited by a Hillary Clinton presidency) should be ...

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At an early stage, European investors will react to economic data in China, as well as to the results published before the opening. Afterwards, there will be a long wait, awaiting investors for the results of the American elections.

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Generally financial markets prefer the status quo, ie always prefer a candidate who give continuity with the previous presidency to a candidate who can take little predictable contours. This preference overrides any political color; markets simply ...

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Today it will be published the employment report, which according to the forecasts of economists, should confirm the dynamism of job creation. Even if the generation of jobs is lower than estimated, should not alter the course of monetary policy, ...

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According to some technical indicators, the recent rise in the DJ Stoxx Banks reached extreme levels, so in the short term, some of the positive news may have already been discounted by the market.

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The labor market has given signs of dynamism, wages maintained their trend of modest increases, inflation accelerated slightly, while the conditions of the other world economies apparently stabilized.

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In an environment marked by uncertainty regarding the outcome of the presidential elections, the US market traded slightly higher, with economic indicators released to reveal a consistency with previous published figures suggesting that the Fed will ...

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The beginning of this week should be particularly intense because beyond corporate news, European investors are faced up with the electoral campaign in the United States and the difficulty of OPEC in achieving a consensus on the reduction of ...

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Yesterday, the earnings season reached its mid-point, as 50% of the constituents of the S & P already submitted its quarterly accounts. Until yesterday, about 73% of companies surpassed analysts’ forecasts and about 61% did the same concerning ...

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Oil continues to be an influential variable in the current panorama of the equity markets. Yesterday, crude oil closed at 49.20 (-1.60%), a particularly volatile session, on the day the Energy Department showed a drop of oil reserves (-553 thousand ...

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The protagonist of the earnings season in the banking sector will be the Deutsche Bank which reports its accounts tomorrow.

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Today DAX reached 10825, overcoming the level of 10800. The medium-term consolidation phase may be over and a new upward movement is now technically possible.

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The behavior of Italian banks can influence the behavior of the Spanish and German pairs in a week in which many European banks will publish their quarterly accounts.

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Asian markets closed in a slight downward. The appreciation of the dollar pressed the price of oil and its sector. However, the Japanese market was favored by the downward trend of the yen against the dollar, a behavior that favors the major ...

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