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Bloomberg: Asia Stocks Diverge as China Rallies, Japan Slumps: Markets Wrap
Asia stocks diverged as China shares rallied, while Japanese equities slumped on their first trading day of the year as investors caught up with a slew of negative news ranging from weak economic data to Apple Inc.’s sales outlook cut. U.S. stock futures climbed and the yen slipped after Thursday’s shock surge. [more...]
Bloomberg: Japan Stocks Plunge on Their First Trading Day of 2019
Japanese stocks fell as global growth concerns dominated the first trading day of 2019, and investors are in no rush to get back. [more...]
Bloomberg: The Bad Stuff That the Stock Market Worried About Is Starting to Happen
All of a sudden, the fundamentals aren’t looking as strong. First it was Apple Inc.’s $5 billion revenue miss, hints of which lopped 30 percent from its stock over three months. Now it’s a closely watched gauge of U.S. factory activity, which dropped to a two-year low and missed every estimate in a Bloomberg survey. [more...]
Bloomberg: House Votes to End Shutdown Amid Trump Veto Threat Over Wall
The new House Democratic majority voted Thursday to end the partial government shutdown but brought Congress no closer to resolving the impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand to pay for a border wall. [more...]
Bloomberg: Gold Bursts Above $1,300 as Slowdown Tremors Spur New Year Rally
Gold pierced the $1,300 level to extend a new year rally. Investors flocked to the metal with global equities in retreat, signs of a slowdown stacking up, and the oldest of havens showing its mettle as exchange-traded funds draw in increased flows. [more...]
Bloomberg: Apple Cuts Outlook as Chinese Slowdown Hits iPhone Demand
Apple Inc. plunged to its lowest price in a year-and-a-half after the company cut its revenue outlook for the first time in almost two decades, citing weaker demand in China. [more...]
Bloomberg: Market Earnings Angst Goes Beyond Apple With Outlooks Darkening
Apple Inc.’s first estimate reduction in two decades helped ignite a 660-point rout in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Bad news for investors: the iPhone maker is hardly the only company paring a forecast. [more...]
Bloomberg: Three Theories on the FX Flash Crash: Robots, Apple, Yen Shorts
Traders and strategists are still attempting to identify the triggers for Thursday’s flash crash in the $5.1 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market. [more...]
Bloomberg: Witching Hour for Currencies Strikes Again as Yen Breaks Loose
The currency market’s so-called witching hour struck again on Thursday, to the detriment of traders who were long the Australian dollar and Turkish lira. [more...]
Reuters: U.S. job gains seen picking up, may soothe jittery markets
U.S. job growth likely picked up in December with wages expected to have increased solidly, which could help to allay a recent upsurge in fears about the economy’s health that have roiled financial markets. [more...]
Reuters: China warnings signal Trump's trade war finally hitting home
Weak sales at Apple and Cargill, U.S. giants of technology and agriculture, may be the clearest sign yet that President Donald Trump’s quest to reset world trade carries costs at home and could isolate the United States as the increasingly fragile engine for global economic growth. [more...]
CNBC: China rebounds on trade hopes as Japan slips more than 2 percent
Asia markets were mostly higher on Friday as developments on the U.S.-China trade front overcame fears of a slowdown in the global economy which resulted in sharp declines in stocks stateside overnight. [more...]
CNBC: Apple must respect court ban on iPhone sales, Chinese anti-counterfeit alliance says
A national Chinese anti-counterfeit alliance called on Apple on Thursday to comply with a court order banning sales of some iPhones in the country. The order was made in December at Qualcomm's request, and the iPhone maker has appealed to overturn the ban. [more...] |
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Currency Strength Indicators
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The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair.
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