Because of these tragic events can not be excluded that investors will take on a greater geopolitical risk in their investment decisions in the oil market.

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Oil continues to suffer the pressure generated by solid evidence of an oversupply and strength of the dollar. Yesterday, the US Department of Energy revealed that last week the oil reserves of the country increased by 4.2 million barrels instead of ...

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A factor that marked the session was the weakness of oil. Yesterday it was reported that off the US and China are dozens of supertankers with about 100 million barrels on board. The cargo of these ships belong often to commodities trading companies ...

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Investors will now focus their attention to the intervention of Mario Draghi at an event organized by the Central Bank of England at 13:15.

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It's quite likely that there will be a relatively “traumatic event” in global markets once the current period of low interest rates comes to an end.

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It is difficult to find any weaknesses in Friday’s employment report. Thus, the odds of an increase in interest rates rose to 70% compared to 58% the day before and 39% from the end of October.

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Traders boosted bets that the Fed will raise rates next month after the labor report.

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American indices closed lower, due to the oil drop, the words of Janet Yellen and dynamism shown by some economic data. The price of crude has been hit by rising reserves in the US, in line with the estimated and also the strength of the dollar. The ...

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In China, investors reacted with enthusiasm to the PMI index, which have reached 52.0 in October, the maximum of the last 3 months. Furthermore, the positive sentiment was reinforced by the words of President Xi Jiping. The President of China stated ...

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The technology sector may benefit from the Nasdaq that have approached the maximum of the last 15 years.

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With today’s speech the Governor of the San Francisco Fed (John Williams) at a conference organized by this institution starts an intense week of speeches among the Central Bank members. Among the various interventions, the focus is on Janet Yellen ...

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The statement from the Fed lead investors to focus again on major economic issues. The US economy suffered a sharp slowdown in Q3 to grow only 1.50%, significantly less than the 3.90% observed in the previous quarter. Estimates of economists pointed ...

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In short, yesterday's Fed statement challenges the prevailing perception in the financial markets (and especially monetary) that there will be no increase in interest rates before the year end, which had been one of the catalysts rally in stock ...

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The meeting of the Fed will be the main event of the day and perhaps of the week. Economists do not anticipate any increase in the reference rate. Attention will be focused on meeting announcement and publication of the minutes a few weeks later. In ...

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According to a statistical study conducted by Asbury Research, the last week of October is usually, since 1957, the worst stock market week of the 4th quarter and one of the worst of the year.

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The almost vertical rise in European equity markets after the ECB’s intention to extend the quantitative easing program and the decision by China’s central bank to cut interest rates put the European indices at extreme levels of overbought. The ...

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Mario Draghi is a skilled manager of expectations and an excellent communicator with the financial markets, even to have a greater effect than the disclosure of corporate results and economic data.

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a decrease in volume shall occur due to the expectation surrounding the ECB meeting today, which is taking place in Valetta (Malta) and is expected to be the main event of the day. Investors will try to find in the words of Mario Draghi the ...

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The Earnings Season remains the central theme. This Season has been marked by the high percentage of companies providing higher than estimated profits (about 74%) in opposition to a worrying proportion (60%) of companies reporting lower revenue than ...

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During this week, some members of the Central Bank will intervene in financial events and will be interesting to see if they will repeat the rhetoric of Fed (an increase of interest rates in December) or will wave to the weakness of some economic ...

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