Wednesday was a very quiet day in the bond markets in Europe, where the result of investors' side stepping was a small decline in interest rates in northern Europe and similar small increases in Southern Europe.
It was still the macroeconomic events that had control of the financial markets with Spain, China and the U.S. in the lead roles.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Bonds: Interest rates fall in the north and increases in south
Labels:
ADP-job report,
bond market,
bonds,
government bonds,
interest rates,
ISM index,
job report,
PMI index,
service sector
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Currency: yen and yuan in trampolining
At Wednesday's currency market it was especially Asian currencies, which attracted attention. Both the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen gave it as a spring gymnasts against the dollar and the two currencies internal balance of power could clearly be read in the Japanese central bank support programs.
Labels:
Bank of Japan,
China,
currency,
currency markets,
dollar,
HSBC,
interest rates,
Japan,
PMI index,
yen,
yuan
Monday, September 3, 2012
Commodities: Large price increases after Bernanke speech
Oil prices rose over the weekend on top of Jackson Hole Symposium and Ben Bernanke's speech, which did not offer clear signs of new quantitative easing, although unemployment in the U.S. economy worries head of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, the U.S. oil production is these days resumed after Hurricane Isaac, and is Monday morning up to 28 percent of normal capacity.
Labels:
Ben Bernanke,
commodities,
commodity markets,
copper,
Federal Reserve Bank,
FOMC,
gold,
gold price,
oil,
PMI index,
quantitative easing,
U.S. economy,
unemployment
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