G20 summit
Markets Move on From G20 Summit With Firmer Dollar, Stocks, and Bonds
July 10, 2017
Nothing truly newsworthy came out of the G20 Summit in Hamburg. The G19 is going forward without the United States on implementing the Paris Accord on combating man-made climate change. A potential trade war over steel wasn’t averted, nor did a coordinated plan emerge to address the situations in Syria, North Korea and other hot […] More
U.S. Jobs Day, G-20 Summit Begins, and BOJ Policy Becomes More Differentiated
July 7, 2017
Investors await the monthly U.S. Labor Dept jobs data due at 12:30 GMT. In the meantime, industrial production figures were released for Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Denmark, and the Czech Republic. Other data releases of interest have been Japanese and Chinese reserves, Japan’s index of leading economic indicators, the French current account, and British […] More
Focus Shifts to FOMC Meeting from Los Cabos Summit
June 20, 2012
The G20 summit in Mexico wound down with words of commitment from European delegates to fix their problems and preserve the common currency as well as expressions of support from other world leaders for efforts being taken. Typically, there was more talk than actual action. Attention next turns to today’s FOMC meeting and Chairman Bernanke’s […] More
