Yesterday was a remarkable day in the monetary history of the United States. The Federal Reserve, through its 993rd open market operation since 25th August 2005, effectively ended its quantitative easing programme (version 3), and which expanded its balance sheet from under $1 trillion to more than $4 trillion in the short time span of…
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CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW TODAY’S VIDEO Spreadbet Magazine editor Zak Mir takes a look at the technical position of some of the bulletin board stocks of the moment amongst private investors. Here are the key points from today’s video: Castleton Technology (CTP) The shares have built higher with a rising trend channel from…
FTSE 100 Standard Chartered (STAN) – reports pre-tax profits of $1.53 billion for the three months to September, down from $1.83 billion. BP (BP.) – Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter to September was $3 billion, compared with $3.7 billion for the same period in 2013. Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) – Underlying profit increased by…
What with the slowing of economic growth in Europe, the anxiety created by the continued spread of the Ebola virus, escalating conflicts in both the Middle East and Ukraine, and in particular the end of monetary stimulus in the US, these issues all contributed to trigger the sharp sell-off of just 2 weeks ago and…
Even if the latest bounce for equity markets, especially in the U.S., fizzles out this week we have evidence of one of the cruel aspect of price action. This is the rule that stocks and markets tend to move in the direction of greatest collective loss. Clearly, this is usually the punishment which short term…
by Dave Evans of binary.com Slipping Back Into Easy Street Well that didn’t last too long did it? After a relatively short period of turbulence, markets appear to be slipping back into easy street, with the S&P 500 enjoying a rapid advance from the lows. Vague talk of the Fed holding off its tapering activities…
CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW TODAY’S VIDEO Spreadbet Magazine editor Zak Mir takes a look at the technical position of some of the bulletin board stocks of the moment amongst private investors. Here are the key points from today’s video: Gulf Keystone (GKP) The shares have recovered after an October dive towards 40p. The 10…
FTSE 100 Lloyds Banking (LLOY) – meets all the capital benchmarks set out for the purpose of the European Banking Authority stress test. Barclays (BARC) – Barclays has passed the EBA EU-wide stress test with an estimated CRD IV Transitional Common Equity Tier 1 ratio, on a comparable basis to other EU banks, of 8.2% under…
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