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The market headline writers are already having a field day trumpeting the rise in the Dow Industrial Average to a new record high, surpassing the previous October 2007 level of 14155 to close 1% higher near 14250. A better than expected US Non-Manufacturing ISM report...
Futures Trading Education
Curbs including the increase in down-payments on property purchases, lifting interest rates on second mortgages and tightening of the enforcement of property profit taxes scuffled the Chinese stock market yesterday. Measures announced by the State Council were focused...
Futures Trading Education
As the US Budget cuts begin to cut in and progressively have their impact from the start of the month, the US Economy is showing signs of having re-accelerated in the first part of this year. The US ISM Manufacturing report for February showed that manufacturing...
Futures Trading Education
The Dow Industrials closed at another 5 year high despite US GDP for Q4 coming in weaker than expected, rising by just 0.1%, held back by companies running down inventories, whilst Final Sales told a more encouraging story. The Weekly Jobless No’s came in better...
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The Dow closed at its highest level in five years yesterday amid signs that the worlds largest economy is improving. US Durable Goods Orders climbed in January by the most in a year whilst Pending Home Sales increased more than forecast. Ben Bernanke in his testimony...
Futures Trading Education
US Equities have ground out modest gains in late trading yesterday, though its is hard to credit the improvement directly to Ben Bernanke’s Senate Banking Committee Testimony even though he was very much on message offering a detailed rationale for why the...
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