14th July 2020
After an initial positive start to the week, US equity markets gave up all its gains in the last hour of trading (8-9pm UK time)
10th July 2020
Yesterday’s (Thursday 9 July 2020) important data release was the weekly US jobless claims: both the initial and continuing claims not only continued to decline (to 1.314m and 18.062m respectively), but both came in better than consensus expectations
9th July 2020
In the UK this morning, the FTSE-100 has drifted lower, ahead of this afternoon’s important weekly US jobless claims data.
8th July 2020
There isn’t any particular negative news to justify yesterday’s (7 July 2020) and today’s global equity market weakness
7th July 2020
Chinese equity markets continue to steal the show: having ended yesterday (Monday 6 July 2020) with an impressive gain of 5.67%, the CSI 300 index rose by a further 0.60% this morning – bringing July’s gain to a whopping 12.83% and 14.68% for the year.
3rd July 2020
It has been a very busy 24 hours for economic data, the biggest of which was the US non-farm payroll data for June.