Super Tuesday results
Share Prices Rise on Primary Results and Another Active Day on Central Banking Front
March 4, 2020
Share prices have climbed in Europe by at least 1.4% in Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, the U.K. and France. U.S. futures are higher too. The contest to decide the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee has revealed sharp regional, generational, ethnic divisions in the party. Biden won the South including Texas and Midwest; Sanders captured California, Colorado […] More
Markets Tugged One Way by Oil and Another by Clarifying Super Tuesday Results
March 2, 2016
West Texas Intermediate crude oil dropped back 2.1% to $33.67 per barrel, depressing U.S. stock futures. Weekly U.S. oil inventories get reported today. Comex gold, the ultimate haven beneficiary, edged 0.2% lower to $1,230.25 per ounce. Trump won Alabama, Massachusetts, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Vermont and Arkansas and now leads Cruz in the Republican delegate count […] More
Weak Data and Super Tuesday Results
March 7, 2012
Australian GDP rose only 0.4% last quarter, half as much as forecast. A 4.7% decline in Australia’s terms of trade was the greatest quarterly slump in a couple of years. On-year growth decelerated to 2.3% from 2.5% in 3Q. Australia’s construction PMI index worsened further to a reading of 35.6 in February from 39.8 in […] More
