Market Update

European stocks closed Monday higher, opening the week with a positive performance on the back of positive news about the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The STOXX Europe 600 index rose by 1.18% and finished at 389.74 points. The UK’s FTSE100 closed higher by 1.66%, while the French CAC40 index gained 1.7%. …

The Australian Dollar (AUD) continues to show a strong performance on Monday, supported by strong industrial data in China, since China is Australia’s largest trade partner. The AUD is up by 072% against the US Dollar (USD), with the AUD/USD pair trading at 0.7322. The pair has been moving in …

The US Dollar (USD) is attempting recovery on Monday, after spending most of the European session in the negative territory. The Dollar index (DXY), which measures the USD performance against a basket of six major international currencies, is down by 0.08% at 93.68. The index has been moving today in …

Manufacturing sales in Canada increased by 1.5% to CAD 53.8 billion in September, data by Statistics Canada showed on Monday. The reading follows a monthly revised decline of 1.4% in August, from an initially estimated 2% decrease.

The headline General Business Conditions Index of the NY Fed’s Empire State Manufacturing Survey fell to 6.3 in November from 10.5 in October, the NY Fed’s report revealed on Monday. This reading missed analysts’ estimate of 13.5 by a wide margin.

Moderna said its initial, third-beta data show its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94% effective in preventing Covid-19 – a result that CEO Stéphane Bancel has called it a “game-changer”. He added, “The thing that got me the most excited today was the severe disease.” Moderna, which developed its vaccine …

Risk flows started to dominate financial markets on Monday after Moderna announced that its COVID-19 vaccine candidate is expected to remain stable at standard refrigerator temperatures of 2° to 8°c for 30 days.

European stocks rose on Monday (November 16th), hovering near nine-month highs after strong Chinese data and hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine renewed bets on a faster economic recovery. Chinese factory production increased faster than expected in October and retail sales rose as the recovery momentum in the world’s second largest …

China’s National Bureau of Statistics said that Chinese economic growth will accelerate in the Q4 at a faster pace than in Q3. The latest data showed that Chinese industrial output rose faster than expected in October, while retail sales grew at a slower than expected pace.

Oil prices rose on Monday, November 16, offsetting some of the previous session’s losses to support hopes that OPEC + will maintain the current production restrictions, overshadowing concerns about the decline in fuel demand due to the growing infection with the Coronavirus and the increase in production in Libya. Prices …