Global Stocks Rally on Economic Secovery Hopes

Global stocks gained on Tuesday as hopes of a robust economic recovery bolstered confidence in riskier assets. A pullback in U.S. and European bond yields also buoyed equity markets. In Europe, the Euro STOXX 600 shrugged off data showing a bigger than expected fall in fourth quarter euro zone economic output to rally 0.5. Germanys […]
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Gold Rebounds as Dollar, U.S. Yields Pull Back

Gold rose nearly 2 on Tuesday, as it gained respite from a retreat in U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar following a slide to a ninemonth low in the last session. Spot gold rose 1.5 to 1,706.01 per ounce by 1308 GMT, having earlier risen as much as 1.8 to 1,711.16. U.S. gold futures climbed […]
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JPY Falls on Widening JGBforeign Bond Spreads

Rates as of 0500 GMT Market Recap Normally I start my day by looking at the stock markets to see whether were in a riskon or riskoff mode. However, we cant rely on that barometer so well nowadays to give the FX market direction, because what were seeing in the stock markets nowadays is rotation. […]
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UK Shares Rise as Reflation Trade Gathers Pace

March 9 Reuters Londons FTSE 100 rose on Tuesday, reversing early losses as investors piled into energy and industrials stocks, buoyed by optimism about a global economic recovery and more U.S. stimulus, though subdued mining shares capped gains. The bluechip FTSE 100 index rose 0.3, with oil heavyweights BP and Royal Dutch Shell being the […]
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LowCost Carrier Frontier Files Paperwork for U.S. IPO

Reuters Frontier Group Holdings Inc has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, a regulatory filing by the lowcost carrier showed on Monday. The filing did not reveal the number of shares or the price range at which Frontier expects to sell them on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Airlines across the world have been […]
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Attack on Saudi Facilities sends Oil Higher

Rates as of 0500 GMT Market Recap The bond market and interest rates continue to dominate the financial markets attention. Following Fridays blowout nonfarm payrolls figure, which showed an increase in jobs nearly twice what was expected 379k vs 200k expected, and thats after a drop in government employment private payrolls were up 465k, the […]
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