On the foreign exchange markets, the US dollar continued its strengthening, which has begun at the beginning of the year. For the second week, except for a small period of consolidation, the dollar continued to strengthen. The world markets ended last week with a fall in stock indices and an...
The first week of the new year on the markets began with an unexpectedly sharp strengthening of the US dollar and a drop in demand for risky assets due to the tensions over the possibility of asserting the presidential winner Joe Biden as president. This event fact and the problems with mass...
The last day of the month on the world markets began with a sharp decline in futures for major American stock indices, followed by European ones. As for the dynamics of trading in Asia, it was initially mixed on the background of the publication of positive data on manufacturing indicators from...
Over the past week, nothing in the main markets drivers has changed. The confidence among investors that Joe Biden is the winner of the presidential race in the US continued. There was plenty of news about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines from different companies. The FRS members stated that the...
Last week, investor sentiment swayed towards optimism despite the existing balance of “negative” and “positive” in the financial markets. They have decided to focus only on positive news, which led to the growth of the stock markets and the dollar’s weakening. What...
The ending week was tough and full of many important and long-term events. First of all, let’s highlight the presidential elections in the United States. Although it took place on Tuesday, the winner is yet to be revealed. On Thursday, the Fed announced its monetary rate following its...
The week on world markets ends with a landslide fall in stock indices, as well as a decline in prices for commodity assets and an increase in demand for safe-haven currencies and government bonds of economically strong countries. After the failure of negotiations on incentives between Nancy Pelosi...
The week ended with a decrease in demand for shares of companies and a strengthening of the US dollar, which is quite logical against the background of several negative factors.The COVID-19 pandemic was the main negative factor for Europe, where the idea of a second lockdown is getting real. The US...
The ending week on the stock markets started positively. Investors continued to react to the inevitability of new measures to support the American economy in the post-election period. They were no longer intimidated by the likelihood that Democrats and Republicans might not agree on incentives...
As I was predicting last Friday, the ending week was positive for stock markets. This positive was supported by the surge in hopes that Republicans and Democrats would abandon the presidential race’s vested interests, pay attention to the harsh reality and decide on new stimulation measures...