A central bank is the term given to the authority responsible for policies that affect a country’s supply of money and credit. The story of the central bank goes back to the seventeenth century during these early years the central banks helped fund the government’s debt and primary focus was to stabilize and control the […]
Market Movements from CoinInvest 2018-02-12
European stocks increased on Monday, recovering part of their sizeable monthly loss. Investor Analysts attributed the encouraging action in part to an enhearten finish on Friday for the U.S equities. Gains on Monday spanned across markets with gold, copper and soybeans all advancing. Commodity investors are catching a break as raw materials including oil gain […]
Market Movements from CoinInvest 2018-02-06
Dow turns negative for 2018 in vicious stock-market rout The Dow Jones Industrial Average wiped out all of its positive gains for 2018 as the stock market took a turn for the worse on concerns about rising bond yields. That intraday move erased all of the positive growth, pushing it negative for the year. Nikkei […]
The Italian Crisis — FIU
Italy took centre stage yesterday after the inconclusive result from the general election. Price action in Italian Government bonds is certainly not positive for the markets. After an initial weak opening, domestic institutions took prices higher and yields lower after the initial re-pricing of the yield curve. The gradual selling throughout most of the day, […]
Current market fundamentals — FIU
It is becoming difficult to trade on fundamentals at the moment. The markets are dominated by sentiment which in itself is being driven by political noise. Firstly, the US Treasury market back up in yields has not been driven by a rise in inflation expectations as would have been expected. In fact forward inflation expectations […]