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 high volatility sideways dynamics will continue in the markets until the end of the month
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...
The belief that incentives will be adopted supports investors’ optimism
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...
Trump’s COVID-19 disease has messed things up and brought additional confusion to the markets
News about Donald Trump’s COVID-19 disease has made adjustments to the market situation. To be more precise, they further increased the presidential election result’s uncertainty and brought more chaos in the US political life. On Monday, markets reacted to the US president’s...
Positive economic data from the United States was the reason for the stock market reversal
The ending week was full of significant events. Publication of important economic data, speeches by members of the Fed, the President of the ECB and of course the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden at the finish line of the election race. The US stock market rose on the back of...
Events in the upcoming week will either turn the market up or resume its fall
World financial markets are ending the month in a challenging situation. COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, together with an unabated pandemic in the United States, cause investors to fear that European countries and the United States may need to introduce new quarantine measures. Some of them already...
The events of the ending week reflect the influence of external factors on financial markets
The first one is the expectations of the COVID-19 second wave and the media attention to this topic due to the British authorities’ decision to impose restrictions on visits to public pubs. Personally, I believe that there is no second wave in EU but only a local worsening of the pandemic...
A fall in demand for risky assets with a simultaneous rise of the dollar is expected 99.9%
The week 39 may turn out to be quite turbulent in terms of the dynamics of financial markets under the influence of the FRS members, as well as the published economic data. The growing risk of a second coronavirus pandemic in Europe, the dominance of this problem in North America, unimpressive...
Fed made markets think about the future
The ending week turned out to be rich about events and important economic statistics that will have a long-term impact on financial markets. First of all, I would like to highlight the final decision of the FRS on monetary policy, which has become a determining factor in the markets’...
The dollar has every chance to resume its decline this week
This week, investors’ focus will be on the final decisions on the monetary policy of the Central Banks of Japan, Great Britain, Russia and of course the US Fed. Market participants keep in mind the possibility of some new statements on monetary rates in the nearest future, but also admit that...