Finance Ministers in Europe to meet and agree a new support for the next 15 months. Stock and Forex markets reacted positive about this.
 
In the front line, finance ministers are acting instantly to some symptoms of more negativity implanted into the markets and making investors be more risk averse, and decrease their trust in the European economy, and the sights of a possible solution in the short term of the debt crisis. This is why, in  order to increase the investors' confidence, the ministers of the 27 countries are thinking about setting a new back support in case of an emergency for the next 15 months. Complementing the European Stability Mechanism, this could mean 500 bn more Euros available, in case that a country enters into a critical emergency, like it happened to Greece not so long time ago....Read More

New worries in the financial markets. Data of business profits in China are pulling down shares in the world.

With China on the lead, financial markets are worried about new signs of negative trend, and low performance. After the red numbers yesterday, today the equity markets in Hong Kong are still suffering the panic in the world. The shares are receiving negative shocks from the banking and energetic sectors in China, and by that, .....Read More

UK’s GDP contracted in the last quarter of 2011, below the forecasts. Instant impact in the Forex market with low levels of the British Pound

UK’s economy still needs to do and hold onto the austerity plans, now that the Office for National Statistics mentioned today that in the last quarter of 2011, the economy dropped in 0.3 percentage points, meaning in the final 3 months of last year, the economy contracted more than expected by analysts. This growth categorized in the period October-December made the annual growth rate stay in a growth of around 0.5 percent, 0.2 percent ....Read More

News from Abu Dhabi and Comments from the Federal Reserve help markets in Europe to escape for a moment from last week’s negative scenario.

News from Abu Dhabi pushes up the stocks of the part-nationalized UK bank Royal Bank of Scotland. The rumours spread say that the government is analyzing a possibility to share part of the bank to some Abu Dhabi’s investors. This contributed to keep, among other positive news, the FTSE 100 up to 0.43 percent increase, from which 6.05 percent corresponds to the RBS’s growth in the stock market....Read More

New debates of the granny tax to increase consumption, the variable that needs to be incentivized after new data from consumers’ confidence.

The economy in Europe has demonstrated that it can be recovered. The main question left is, how to keep the optimism in the markets, and at the same time, control the inflation, and thus, prevent high volatilities in the Forex segment? This long concern can be summarized in, how to incentive growth to the economy? And by that, the positive trend will no more be something to speculate about, but something more real that will permit analysts to make... Read More

A week against the expectations, taught the markets that the economy needs more than optimism. Currencies are back to more volatility.

This week is over and the expectations are focusing on the next one. The main reason is that the economy still seems to be volatile, and the crisis damage is not totally healed. The British Pounds was having, in the previous week, an interesting performance, rising up to high values against the dollar, and starting to be again attractive at the same time showing a stable trend. ....Read More

A different week from the previous, equity markets are starting to wonder. FTSE in Negative, but the Sterling is performing positively.

This week has been acting different from last one. Optimism is not as high as seven days ago, and investors are wondering about the effectiveness of all the policies made in Europe, to come out from the crisis and re-boost the economy. The previous LTROS provided by the European Central Bank were supposed to act as an item to calm down the markets and let them increase results. At least, in the short term,.... Read More

Markets and oil are waiting for more positive news to gain optimism and keep the same movement of last week.

Different respect to last week, markets this week are not so active. Oil prices are still reflecting some preventive measures waiting for more confirmation of an economic recovery. On the positive field, the fact that Apple announced payments of dividends and a USD 10 bn payback program, kept some of the investors with optimism and enthusiasm, .....Read More

A new trend in the markets is showing United States accelerating with optimism, impacting Europe. Investors might have mixed reactions in UK, impacting the Sterling, in which this week hit high against USD.

The second week of March of this year has been characterized by a change of trend in the markets. More specifically, in the United States where good data supported high records of the Dow Jones and S&P. This positive shock also impacted in Europe, thanks to a new air of optimism after the deal between Athens and its Bond holders. After this, and the £109 bn for Greece’s bailout...Read More

Friday is ending with the new optimism perceived since the beginning at the week. US markets showed bigger improvements, helping the dollar gain against the euro and the sterling.

This Friday seems to end with the change of trend observed, in which markets reacted with positive news, coming at first, from Europe, and being boosted with the support of macro economical data from the US. This has been, of course, more beneficial to American markets rather than in the UK and the rest of Europe. The fact that in Europe this optimism is has minor interest comes from debt factors. In the UK, Fitch revised down the rating to AAA negative. ...Read More

UK Markets opened good, thanks mostly to increasing confidence in Germany and positive expectations from Data in the US. Nevertheless housing is a sector that is impacted by crisis at the end, so prices keep falling.

After new support from Germany in the ZEW German Economic Sentiment Index, which showed a 22.3 level this month, financial markets in Europe opened with positive trends? The FTSE 100 index have shown today increase of 0.5 percent, resulting into a good support of the financial markets in the UK, and especially, strengthen the British pounds at the same time the risky banks gets more guarantees. Moreover, commodities are responding positively for today’s events.....Read More

Investors seem to be in short position with the Sterling falling against US Dollars. With expectations on the Euro Zone, FTSE 100 opened negative.

With the expectation of the final details to wrap Greece’s history related to the debt crisis, and with no data about any main event in the UK, the sterling have follow a trend, mostly, because of external factors.  Starting with past recent news in the US, the Federal Reserve, with its announce of considering less probable injecting more money in the economy as a monetary stimulus.....Read More

After the good news, there are still some lags to be taken care of. Good news of Greece and for the Euro-Area, but still some issues in production and construction, and to end with, household income.

This week has been surrounded of good news. And by good it means events that might fulfill optimism in investor’s minds and markets in general. So the trend is changing into positive reactions, as a result of policies anti-crisis in Europe, and the negotiations held in Greece for escaping an economical default, with the Bond Swaps. This could represent walking away from the bad times and prepare for the recovery. Therefore, the good news are result of a recovery from a gray (or highly risky) panorama that began in Europe with the Debt crisis, and then it also changed the course of other big economies, like the projections of GDP of china, revised down, to 7.5 percent....Read More

After exiting from Greece, Europe needs to focus on other issues, consequence of all the anti-crisis policies.

After a positive reaction and expectations from Greece and its Investors, in which now the Minister of Finance in Athens said they have reached an 85.5 percent agreement of the bond holders, markets and institutions now need to think of, getting out of the crisis, but afterwards, focusing in other critical topics in the agenda, that comes out from many emergency policies. The ECB, on this regard, is now analyzing the trends in core indexes such as inflation, and keep in control interest rates, after many monetary...


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Uncertainty is back again, despite the previous optimistic environment. First, Greece and the negotiations of the bond swap; then, lower projections of GDP. This is impacting the volatility in the Sterling.

Markets are trembling again, after a period of calm and optimism. The main event, today, is Athens, and the Greek crisis. This is not new, but now the possibility of default is showing around the corner. Sometimes this probability disappears. Right now, Greece acted on Tuesday by making a bond swap, so they can negotiate with its creditors, and finally, .....Read More

China’s New GDP Forecast Impacted Markets in the World. Adding Greece to the discussion, optimism is losing the places won in the past weeks in Europe.

The figures about a revised down of the growth of the GDP in China, from 8 percent to 7.5 percent, caused negative reacti0ons to the markets in the World. The European stock markets opened lower today, also affected by the risk caused in Greece of a possible default. ... Read More

New Revised GDP Figures: reduce in UK and China, but it still represents a positive forecast. Sterling decreases as a result of these events and more pounds in the market.

Today the British Chamber of Commerce met together to revise down the data about the economic output and growth this year for the UK. According to the office, UK’s GDP will have a growth of 0.6 percent instead of 0.8 percent. This result, however, given the actual conjuncture in Europe and thus, in the world, means that no matter what Britain will escape from the phantom of recession, taking into consideration the -0.2 percent in growth performed in Q4 2011. ....Read More

A week of new support from the ECB, with Spain and Greece making concerns. British Banks Borrowed £31 bn from the LTRO.

This week has represented a new beginning for the fight against the euro crisis. There have been new actions from the ECB, and policies regarding the prevention of new crisis like the one Europe suffer(ed).

The leaders of the 25 nation’s representative of the European Union were reunited in Brussels, signing a new treaty to overcome this situation and make sure the whole continent won’t repeat this stressful period again. Basically, this is the so called “fiscal compact” that leaders, such as Mario Monti, Italy’s Prime Minister, was calling in order to reach the salvation and fix the defects that right now the union has and does not permit the economy rise together. ....Read More

With the expansionist monetary policy, the euro falls against the dollar.

After the increase of monetary supply from the ECB, ad helped with the declarations of the US Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, the euro decreased in its value against the dollar.
In a week where Europe make a huge injection of money, primary intended to the banking sector, the contrast is notable with more conservative policies coming from the United States, with a strategy of more monetary easing. The result of this, after all, is a low value for the euro against the dollar, the lowest in one week.....Read More

A new blast of money from the ECB to Europe: Minimize the risk of a credit crunch and focus in growth

The ECB went to the markets to grant the second funding to the financial markets, with low rate loans. The total amount rises up to £444 bn, and the main objective is to give liquidity to the banks in order to minimize the risk and stay away from the credit crunch. Another positive consequence is that, ....Read More