Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his government will resign over a childcare subsidy scandal that “drove thousands of families to financial ruin,” Reuters reported on Friday, according to local news agency NOS. There hasn’t yet been an official confirmation of this news at the time of press.
Read More »US Department of Energy: The US Plans to Sell 20 Million Barrels of Strategic Oil Reserves
The US Energy Department said Thursday it plans to sell up to about 20 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as dictated by two laws passed in 2015 and 2018. Both laws require the ministry to sell a little more than ten million barrels during the …
Read More »China Records Highest Increase in New Cases of Coronavirus Since Last April
The National Health Commission of China said today, Friday, that mainland China recorded 144 new cases of the new Coronavirus on January 14, up from 138 cases the day before. The commission said in a statement that 135 of the new cases were local cases, including 90 in Hebei Province, …
Read More »JPMorgan Bank’s Quarterly Earnings And Revenues Beat Expectations
JPMorgan announced its quarterly results (Q4 2020), which were better than expectations. Earnings per share: $3.79 per share, versus expectations of $2.62 per share, according to Refinitiv Revenue: $30.16 billion, versus forecast $28.70 billion
Read More »BofA: Equities See $27 Billion Inflows as Reflation Trade Gathers Pace
Weekly statistics on fund flows from Bank of America revealed that investors bought shares of financial companies and the energy sector last week, to initiate allocations in centres before US President-elect Joe Biden announced a stimulus package of $ 1.9 trillion. The US investment bank said, based on EPFR data, …
Read More »Gold Rises on Hopes of US Stimulus and Central Accommodative Policy
Gold rose as the appetite for the yellow metal as a hedge against inflation was strengthened thanks to a large US package to mitigate the repercussions of Covid-19, while prices also received support thanks to a stance that tends to facilitate monetary policy on the part of the Federal Reserve …
Read More »European Stocks Fell on Fears of Lockdown
European stocks are heading to end the week with a cautious performance, as the prospect of tighter lockdown measures in Germany and France, as well as new restrictions to combat COVID-19 in China, dampen optimism about the global economic recovery. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.5%, heading to close …
Read More »Oil Declining in Light of General Isolation Measures in China And US Unemployment Data
Oil prices plunged as fears about Chinese cities being subjected to general isolation measures due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus curbed a rally driven by strong import data from the world’s largest crude consumer and US plans for a stimulus package. Brent fell 46 cents, or 0.8%, to $ …
Read More »Bitcoin Tends to Have Intraday Negativity
Positive trading dominated the Bitcoin, surpassing the second target required to be achieved during the previous technical report at 38,220, to post high at 39,943. Technically, the current moves are witnessing a slight bearish slope due to the RSI gradually losing upward momentum over short time frames. We tend to …
Read More »German DAX Trying to Hold Onto Positivity
The German DAX index maintains positive stability, recording its highest level during early trading for the current session at 14,015. On the technical side today, we are biased towards the intraday positivity depending on the intraday trading stability above the support level 13,910 and generally above the pivotal support floor …
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