Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Google Alert - Financial Markets

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Financial Markets
As-it-happens update February 21, 2018
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - "What about that stock market?" Share prices are a bit like the weather, an easy topic for conversation. U.S. President Donald Trump is fairly typical in gloating when American stocks go up. However, some sensible people – economists and central bankers – also take ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):. 9:35 a.m.. Stocks are opening moderately higher on Wall Street, led by gains in retailers and technology companies. Amazon rose 1.3 percent in the first few minutes of trading, and Adobe Systems also rose 1.3 percent ...
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Lynch also notes that recent corporate earnings are beating expectations, while companies are forecasting healthy profits this year. That's not what you'd expect to see if a storm in financial markets threatened to capsize the broader economy.
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People are reflected on an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Shares were higher in Asia on Wednesday, supported by rosy manufacturing data from Japan. The gains came despite losses on Wall Street, where a six-day winning streak was snapped by a ...
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Andy Ross, chief executive of CurveGlobal, said the London Stock Exchange Group's interest rate derivatives venture will benefit from the new best execution regulations despite the mandate for open access being postponed. MiFID II, the regulation covering financial markets in the European Union ...
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In the fall of 2015, Fed Chair Janet Yellen presented a long speech explaining the inflation model and justifying the beginning of a rate-hike cycle, even though turmoil in financial markets during the previous summer eventually short-circuited the Fed's plan after just one hike, in December 2015. The Fed ...
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I say all this because "deleveraging" and industrial profit growth in 2017 China was driven almost exclusively by financial market driven commodity price gains engineered by Beijing. For so many reasons, expecting triple digit price gains to drive the economy is risky at best. 2017 was not a broad based ...
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Although the macroeconomy is by most measures doing well, over the past few weeks the stock market has experienced volatility and continues to fluctuate. Recently increased expectations that the Fed may raise interest rates in the future has investors rebalancing their portfolios, with a shift out of ...
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WEB
Robots at the helm of financial markets and crypto
Is this time different? Robots at the helm of financial markets and crypto (medium.com). 1 point by acmeyer9 34 minutes ago | hide | past | web | favorite | discuss ...
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