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A to Z: Alphabet Falls Over Rising Costs - EMEA Brief 05 Feb
Guest JoeIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Global markets - APAC brief 5 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
The Hayne Report handed-down: Considering the quietness – and as this is being written, the hope is US President Trump keeps his fingers away from Twitter – it provides a good opportunity to pop-on the parochial Australian hat and look at how local markets are evolving. In a reasonably significant way, Australia was where the locus of interest lay, if only in the Asian session, during yesterday’s trade. The final report of Kenneth Hayne, QC’s Banking Royal Commission had Aussie markets on edge throughout the day; and had global investors curious as to what game-changing findings would come out of the report. The pre-positioning in the morning’s trade had the ASX experiencing much larger volumes than the average Monday, though that petered out as the session unfolded and attention turned to simply awaiting the report’s release.
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MaxIG,Markets prepare for the Lunar New Year - EMEA Brief 04 Feb
Guest IG-Andi posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,US economy still leads the pack - APAC brief 4 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Financial conditions and economic data supportive: The dovish Fed are, and will continue to be supportive of this, as financial conditions loosened once again in response to last week’s FOMC meeting. It’s no mystery to markets: the correlation between a recovery in financial conditions and the performance in equities is clear. The fears of a US recession, based purely on the macro-data, is still unfounded. The numbers coming out of the US on Friday weren’t spotless, but they were still very strong. ISM Manufacturing PMI beat economist consensus forecast, and US Non-Farm Payrolls showed an increase in jobs in the US economy of 304k. The jobs data was marred by a downgrade in previous months jobs-gain numbers, a dip in annualized wage growth, and a tick-up in the unemployment rate. Overall, however, the data showed a still strong US economy.
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MaxIG,When it rains, it pours; Amazon shares decline - EMEA Brief 01 Feb
Guest KatherineIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Fed sparks bullish sentiment - APAC brief 1 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Bond markets start to adjust: Look no further to rates and bond markets to see the true impact of what the Fed has done. US Treasuries had been a boring market to watch for most of January, at least when compared to the events of late 2018. The US 10 Year note had been less than a 10-basis point trading range. The ultra-dovish Fed yesterday morning put an end to that. Implied probability for a rate hike this year from the Fed has for all intents and purposes has now been erased. By the end of the year, interest rate traders see little more than a 1 per cent chance that a rate hike will occur. US Bond yields have tumbled consequently, with the US 2 Year Treasury now yielding little more than current US Federal Funds rate.
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MaxIG,Facebook Earnings "LIKED" by Shareholders - EMEA Brief 31 Jan
MichaelaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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MichaelaIG,Brexit Amendments and Apple Earnings - EMEA Brief 30 Jan
Guest IGAaronC posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Apple earnings release 29 Jan
Guest DanielaIG posted a topic in Shares and ETFs,
But we all know that when a company has sold a lot, they want to let the world know how well they have done, as said by Steve jobs himself “if a company is selling a lot of stuff, they want people to know about it. If they aren’t, then they don’t”. On top of that, it is no secret that iPhone sales were short of estimates in the previous quarter. Nevertheless, as the average price of an iPhone has increased, Apple’s profits are still being driven higher.
This leaves a wary sentiment about Apple’s earnings release. With a slowdown in sales offset by higher sale prices, and a general feeling that economies are slowing down growth, Apple’s Q4 earnings release is marked by the pre-announcement issued on Jan 2 where Apple reported it had missed expectations for the year due to a slowdown in sales in China.
As Apple shares suffered the weight of the slowdown and the subsequent downgrade from firms like Bank of America, could a lower expectation on the back of the Jan 2nd announcement mean that Apple can beat expectations?
Find out what founder and CEO of Pocket Lint Stuart Miles has to say about Apple’s earnings forecast as he is interviewed by IGTV presenter Victoria Scholar.
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Guest,UK MPs hold their own 'Super Tuesday' - EMEA Brief 29 Jan
Guest DanielaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,FTSE100 Out of sync with other indices?
Mercury posted a topic in Indices and Macro Events,
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JamesIG,U.S. Government Shutdown Ends After 35 Days - EMEA Brief 28 Jan
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JamesIG,Wake up and smell the coffee; Starbucks beats sales expectations - EMEA Brief 25 Jan
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GeorgeIG,Mixed results - APAC brief 25 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Australian employment: Australian employment data portrayed a mixed picture of the Australian labour market yesterday. The headlines were attractive. The unemployment rate fell to a very solid 5.0%, supported by jobs growth of 21k in the month of December. Digging deeper however, and the outlook is slightly less rosy. The fall in the unemployment rate was primarily due to a decline in the participation rate, and perhaps worse still, the data showed a -3k contraction in full time jobs. Nothing to panic about, by any means. But it does highlight a level of spare capacity in the economy, and further slack in the labour market. It suggests an economy still some way off meaningful wages growth and inflation for which the RBA is waiting.
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MaxIG,Carlos Ghosn gone as Chief of Renault - EMEA Brief 24 Jan
Guest IG-Andi posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,The control of the market - APAC brief 24 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
The imminent catalysts: It won’t be long before such opportunities arise. US earnings season remains one of them, and overnight earnings beats by the likes of IBM and Procter and Gamble galvanized temporary upside. A slew of PMI figures out of Europe will also be released, before central bank policy comes to the fore too, with the ECB due to meet on Thursday. As can be inferred, the next 24 hours may well centre on Europe, and its apparently ailing economy. Recall, it was the last round of PMI figures released out of Europe that showed a contractionary figure in that measure in several sovereign economies. Coupled with what is assumed to be a dovish ECB President Mario Draghi tonight, and the outlook for global growth may prove up for revision.
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MaxIG,IGTV round up - 21st - 25th of Jan 2019
JamesIG posted a topic in General Trading Strategy Discussion,
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JamesIG,US cancels trade meet with Chinese Officials- EMEA Brief 23 Jan
Guest KatherineIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,The pull-back is here - APAC brief 23 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
The market’s rationale: A greater look at this subject and Wall Street’s price action later. In relation to the overnight sell-off, the rationale was as feeble as the one that got stocks to their recent peaks in the first place. It’s been chalked up to reduced positivity towards the trade-war, and renewed concerns about global growth. To begin with, very little data throughout the past week has provided a clear and substantial picture on economic growth. The boost in sentiment has come from geopolitical or monetary policy developments that was assumed to be supportive of the growth outlook – at some point in the future. Some nice-noises made between the US and China in trade negotiations here, and a few dovish comments from a handful of US Fed speaker there, is what ignited the latest part of the risk-on rally.
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MaxIG,Gloomy Days Ahead as IMF Cuts Global Forecasts - EMEA Brief 22 Jan
Guest JoeIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Guest,Bullishness settles - APAC brief 22 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
ASX set for flat start: SPI futures are positioned for the ASX200 to open flat-to-very-slightly-higher come today's open. It's a resilient market at present, with the trend line derived from recent lows looking clean and dutifully respected. The bulls guided the-200 above the 5900-mark for the first time in roughly two months yesterday. As widely expected, the market met resistance at the index's 200-day EMA around 5909 during intraday trade, registering a daily high only a skerrick above that point. Yesterday’s daily candle indicates one slightly more vulnerable to bearish control in the very short-term: the sellers overwhelmed the buyers into the back end of the day, bringing about a close in the green, but well-off the day's high.
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MaxIG,Dividend Adjustments 21 Jan - 28 Jan
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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JamesIG,Trade wars improving?, topics for Davos, Brexit timelines - DailyFX Key Themes for the EMEA region
JohnDFX posted a blog entry in Market News,
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