Date Added: 21st May 2012
Europe continues to dominate the headlines, with a
sea of negative news continuing to drive investors
out of the European periphery and into safe haven
government bonds in Germany, the US and Japan.
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Date Added: 14th May 2012
Europe remains centre stage as the fallout from the
recent elections continues to reverberate around
financial markets. France remains relatively
straightforward.
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Date Added: 7th May 2012
Politics has certainly made an impact today, with
French, Greek and German elections giving the
people the chance to vent their anger at various
incumbents. But weakness in the markets has been
building for a while, with European data mostly all
disappointing.
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Date Added: 30th April 2012
Europe continues to be a major worry for financial
markets, with all the signs pointing to another crisis
looming. In Greece, an election is to be held on 6th
May, with the two main parties seen barely securing
a majority in parliament. Bank of Greece Governor
Provopoulos, also an ECB Governing Council
member,
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Date Added: 23rd April 2012
The uneasy calm continues, with markets tracking
within established ranges. Attention has been on the
G20 meeting and the French elections over the
weekend, with not much hope that either will provide
any significant direction. Finance chiefs are under
no illusions however that anything has actually been
fixed.
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Date Added: 16th April 2012
Markets have a more sombre tone, with Europe again ailing and growth in China less than expected. Data from the US has been average at best and turning lower at worst and so the world feels much gloomier overall.
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Date Added: 10th April 2012
Market sentiment remains fickle, changing like the
wind. Last week saw the release of the US Federal
Reserve minutes for the Federal Open Market
Committee meeting on 13th March.
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Date Added: 26th March 2012
Markets sobered up a bit last week as various bits of data gave food for thought and caused some consolidation. The S&P 500 slipped 0.5%, the Dow fell 1.2% and the German DAX fell 2.7%. Chinese and European PMI data was poor, whilst US data was generally positive.
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Date Added: 19th March 2012
Panglossian is a word which means blindly or naively optimistic. We wonder whether the world has not become a bit too panglossian. Perhaps a bit too much central bank printing clouding the real economies?
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Date Added: 12th March 2012
Now that Greece has been sort of fixed, for the moment anyway, the focus returns to financial data and tracking of the major economies. At this stage the world view seems to be that Europe is slowing, but debatable how much.
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