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Trading Sentiment
Below is the latest sentiment as compiled by etoro, the world's largest (social) trading network. It provides a view of what individual investors think about the specific instruments and gives a view of the current sentiment.
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Latest News Headlines
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Reuters: China January factory activity seen shrinking further, raising global risks: Reuters poll
Activity in China’s vast manufacturing sector likely shrank for the second straight month in January, a Reuters poll showed, heightening concerns over the risks the Chinese slowdown poses to the global economy. [more...] Bloomberg: Global Stocks Mixed With Trade Talks in Focus: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks traded mixed Tuesday as investors juggled growing concerns about the impact of the U.S.-China trade war on corporate profits with hopes for progress in this week’s key talks. [more...]
Bloomberg: U.S. Charges Huawei With Stealing Trade Secrets, Bank Fraud
U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Huawei Technologies Co., China’s largest technology company, alleging it stole trade secrets from an American rival and committed bank fraud by violating sanctions against doing business with Iran. [more...]
Bloomberg: Apple Bug Lets iPhone Users Listen in on Others Via FaceTime
Apple Inc. customers discovered a software bug that lets people listen in on other users by way of the company’s FaceTime video chat service in one of the biggest privacy-related problems faced by the company. [more...]
Bloomberg: Stocks Drop With Caterpillar, Nvidia Earnings Woes: Markets Wrap
U.S. stocks fell after Caterpillar and Nvidia blamed slowing global growth for disappointing results, augmenting concern the trade war with China is hitting corporate profits. Oil slid. [more...]
Bloomberg: Porsche’s New Electric Car Offers a Faster Charge Than Tesla
Zero-to-60 times are shorthand for what anybody buying a Porsche is supposed to care about. But with the all-electric Taycan due out later this year, Porsche executives are talking up a less-exhilarating metric: getting to 60 miles of charge. [more...]
Bloomberg: Alibaba Shows Signs of Strain as China's Economy Shudders
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is feeling the heat as China’s economy decelerates. China’s dominant e-commerce company will offer clues to the health of the nation’s middle-class, and how it’s navigating the slowdown, when it unveils earnings Jan. 30. [more...]
Bloomberg: China Weakness Spreads Far and Wide, From Caterpillar to Nvidia
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures huge yellow bulldozers. Nvidia Corp. makes minuscule computer chips. Their products have little in common, but their earnings on Monday pointed to the same direction: demand in China is slowing down for a widening range of goods. [more...]
Bloomberg: Pound Rally on Brexit Optimism Is Overdone for Aberdeen, BlueBay
The pound’s world-beating rally is unsustainable as traders are over-optimistic about the way forward on Brexit, according to money managers. Sterling has gained more than 3 percent versus the dollar this year, the most among its Group-of-10 peers, on conviction that the possibility of a no-deal Brexit has receded. [more...]
Reuters: Powell faces early reckoning on Fed's $4-trillion question
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a problem: how to explain that the Fed may soon begin to taper its ongoing asset-shedding operation without looking like he’s hunkering down for a coming recession, or caving to U.S. President Donald Trump. [more...]
CNBC: Apple, Nvidia and Caterpillar may be pointing to widespread pain from China's slowdown
Disappointing results from construction machinery giant Caterpillar and a pessimistic revenue forecast from chipmaker Nvidia point to a broader impact to the global business community from China's economic slowdown, analysts said on Tuesday. [more...]
CNBC: Goldman warned Nvidia could blow up because of China and says these companies could be next
Another two major U.S. companies blamed China for weaker earnings — construction machinery giant Caterpillar and chipmaker Nvidia — and their shares both plunged on Monday because of it. [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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