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Wall Street pays little heed to McDonald's 267% recovery

Wall Street pays little heed to McDonald’s 267% recovery

McDonald’s is in a state of flux. In actual fact, it’s been up and down for a while and there are many reasons for analysts to feel angst about McDonald’s, including increasing labour costs and poor customer feedback over food quality. Investors are, however, enamored with the McDonald’s Corporation despite their US sales falling in the 7th quarter, which could have made the share price less…

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Is Another Global Financial Crisis on the horizon?

Since the recession, following the subprime mortgage collapse in 2007, there have been many competing theories attempting to explain exactly what happened. Everyone from financial and economic professionals to the average consumer have their own theory on how such a drastic financial downturn could have occurred. The general consensus seems to be, the popping of the speculative real estate…

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Movement-Fraught Markets: US Bonds and Dollar Push Gains Versus the Yen

As yet another sign of the continued volatility that 2016 has already exhibited this year, the United States dollar rallied against the yen while evidence continued to emerge that the American economy is able to supersede increased interest rates. While the S&P 500 has seen a dismal year up until this point, last week witnessed somewhat of a reversal; backing up data which indicated that the…

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Goldman Sachs Takes a Look at the Federal Reserve Announcement

Economists, Daan Struyven and Zach Pandl from Goldman Sachs referred to last week’s statement by the Federal Reserve as one of the “most dovish of this century”. The announcement came as a surprise to investors because there were huge expectations that interest rates at year end would be higher than announced. According to the rate-setting committee, the Federal Open Market Committee, Federal…

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Bond Traders Assent That the Fed Can Lift Rates as Early as June

The bond market is boosting its wagers on a Federal Reserve interest-rate increment as stocks and oil rally as of June. As indicated by futures data gathered by Bloomberg, traders currently observe the chance of a June rate hike at around a coin flip as a result of Treasury 10-year note recording a third continuous weekly decrease. As observed in the previous month, that is an increase from a 45…

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#FED

ECB must pull a white rabbit out of the hat for Euro to stay low

Following turbulent times in February, the Euro has gradually become more stable at the start of March. Market traders are getting ready for a critical stage in these times of negative interest rate policy, with everyone wondering if the European Central Bank will lower interest rates even more, as conventional policies appear to be largely ineffective. During the past month or so, the Euro has…

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#ECB #EURUSD

The AUD is up three days in a row, after favourable GDP figures

The Australian dollar (AUD) gained ground for the third day running, following a report from the government showing the country’s economy grew more than forecasted in the last quarter. Swaps markets dropped the odds that interest rates would fall, following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s meeting in May. This had a positive effect on the AUD which gained ground over 29 out of 31 other currencies.…

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DAX30 – Some call it a turnaround, I call it a correction Technical analysis of the DAX30 short position I am currently holding in all my public accounts. I will be looking at what to expect in general, where I set my limits and how I would trade the current market.

#DAX30

EUR/USD – Waiting for the turnaround Technical analysis of the EUR/USD long position I am currently holding in my Alvanda accounts. I am looking at what the limits are in terms of stop loss and take profit as well as the greater picture of the current trend.

#EURUSD #Fibonacci retracement

David Cameron strives to avoid Brexit and sterling strengthens against the US Dollar

Sterling rose against the US Dollar towards the end of last week as news spread across the world regarding the potential deal between Cameron and other EU leaders centering on the possibility of the UK leaving the EU. The UK Prime Minister had meetings in Brussels with other prominent EU leaders during the EU Summit’s second day. He was trying to negotiate Britain’s position on, in particular,…

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Brexit Risks and Poor U.K. Data Means Pound Recovery Looks Far Off

Those looking for a steady recovery in the Pound may be upset. This week sees the release of domestic data as well as a European Summit meeting. The outcome may provide a hint when the U.K.’s EU referendum vote will take place. Last week saw sterling fall against other major currencies as the Prime Minister David Cameron increased efforts to reach a deal that would allow a referendum vote to take…

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The Perfect Start To The Trading Year 2016

The Yen peaks for the first time since 2009 amidst a gloomy Federal Reserve forecast

The Yen is about to enjoy its greatest advance against the US dollar (USD) since 2009 but concerns prevail that the world economy’s in slowdown and traders have stopped hedging their bets that the US will increase interest rates in 2016. This has diminished the news of Japan’s negative interest rates. The Yen’s recovered from the fall spurred by Bank of Japan suddenly levying lenders for excess…

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China The World's Biggest Economy?

China The World’s Biggest Economy?

The race to become the biggest economy in the world seems to have taken a twist as China’s economic woes halts its chance to surpass the U.S. This is the first time in almost a decade that this has happened. It’s important to however note that the output from the two countries was measured in dollars. According to data that was released last Friday, the U.S. economy showed an increase in GDP at a…

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Dow Jones Industrial - Time For a Break

Dow Jones Industrial – Time For a Break

Today is FED day and with it comes potential trouble – in the sense of hefty volatility – a daytrades nemesis. As I haven’t been lazy today but booked a few small profits on my Alvanda accounts I call it a day early and use the time to lose a few words about the Dow Jones Industrial. It was November 4th when the current downswing started and pushed the index to a low of 15448 points (20th January…

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#DJ30 #Dow Jones Industrial #US30

Oil Trader who foretold the fall in the Price of Oil says it has Reached Bottom

The founder of the $615 million Andurand Capital Management, Pierre Andurand is someone who correctly saw that oil prices oil would fall. He believes that oil is probably at its lowest point and can only go up in price. https://d33t3vvu2t2yu5.cloudfront.net/tv.js // Last week in an interview with Bloomberg TV, he explained that the price of oil had probably reached bottom and that we would…

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The British Pound Has No Friends

Poor economic data, a very weak inflation, and the market’s loss in confidence about interest rate increases, has all amounted to the Great British Pound falling out of favour. Rabobank International’s Jane Foley said the pound “doesn’t have many friends at all.” Foley, a forex strategist at Rabobank International’s London branch, pointed out the growing issues against the pound, and warned of…

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