Markets review

Markets review

Economic News
2019年2月13日

Donald Trump hopes that he will be able to reach a bilateral deal with China and said that he is ready to postpone the imposition of duties on Chinese imports of $200 billion on March 1. The head of the White House also continues to pressure the government and can sign a document that can avoid a new long-term shutdown of the government’s work and use this leverage to secure the borders with Mexico.

During yesterday’s speech, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell assured the American economy of the reserve currency's strength, and also expressed positive comments that the unemployment rate is near a half-century minimum.

During yesterday's trading session US stocks rose amid investor optimism in the US-China deal.

The dollar broke its eight-day rally after yesterday's trading session, after reaching one-year highs at 97.00.

Against the backdrop of the OPEC+ energy agreement, energy prices continued to rise and reached maximum values ​​since December last year.

Marten Claes

Economic News

Markets review

Markets review

Marten Claes
2019年2月12日

Economic News

Border Deal Reached

Democrats and Republicans have prepared a draft deal.

Anna Sneider
2019年2月12日

Economic News

Democrats and Republicans Fail to Agree

The two parties are discussing a deal in order to avoid another government shutdown.

Anna Sneider
2019年2月11日