Posts Tagged ‘FTSE 100’
News for the New Year
The New York Stock Exchange will not open today in observance of the Martin Luther King national holiday. Meanwhile, let’s take a brief look back at what happened last week and what is going on overseas. On Friday, Standard & Poor’s rating service made good on their December warning that they would downgrade France’s credit…
Read MoreHalloween Week Not So Scary on the Markets (Weekly Financial Review, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2011)
Halloween week wasn’t so scary in the markets, with very little movement on Monday at all, and increases on both Wednesday and Thursday in the major U.S. indexes. U.S. markets ended slightly down on Friday, after an unstable week of gains and losses. The S&P was the hardest hit, down -7.92 points, or 0.63% to…
Read MoreThe Week That Never Happened
As many Americans were looking forward to starting the long Labor Day weekend in the United States, markets worldwide began sliding again on Friday. HAPPY LABOR DAY Ironically timed with Labor Day, the U.S. Department of Labor reported zero job growth for the first time in over 66 years. The last time the numbers came…
Read MoreMarkets Weather The Storm, Show Recovery
The major U.S. Indexes all posted significant gains from the previous week’s close. Some Asian markets also advanced, but the Shanghai Composite and Hang Seng both closed with losses. European indexes still faltered, but were up from the previous week. The end of the week saw the stocks of certain luxury purveyors like Tiffany and…
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