Financial-market stresses were an important focus as fear became the dominant feature once again for much of the week. There was further speculation, for example, that the Bank of America and Citigroup would require additional...
Read MoreAfter a holiday period which was strongly influenced by position adjustment and year-end flows, conditions within the US and global economy were a very important focus over the first full trading week of 2009 as the data...
Read MoreMarket liquidity was sharply lower over the week due to the impact of Christmas and New Year holidays. In this environment, there was a high degree of volatility in the European currency pairs, notably on Wednesday, which was...
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Read MoreConditions within the global economy continued to dominate market sentiment over the week as liquidity levels weakened ahead of the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Market positioning also became a more important influence...
Read MoreThe global economy, allied with central bank measures to alleviate the downturn, was the dominant market focus over the week. Volatility increased sharply as the dollar weakened sharply before securing a strong recovery from...
Read MoreConditions within financial markets remained a very important focus, but attention tended to switch more towards economic conditions and policy responses as the stream of very weak data releases continued and confidence remained...
Read MoreDeteriorating conditions within the global economy, together with official action to provide support were very important market factors over the week as pessimism over economic conditions continued to increase.The US PMI data...
Read MoreThere was further evidence of deteriorating global economic conditions during the week with no let up from bad news. The trends in financial markets were more complex as markets looked forward to assess how bad the downturn will...
Read MoreConcerns over the US and global economy continued to intensify over the week following a stream of weak data releases and renewed downward pressure on asset prices. There was also a renewed increase in stresses surrounding the...
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