A quick observation. I could not help noticing that China’s imports from Japan fell 16.2pc in December. Imports from Taiwan fell 6.2pc. The Shanghai Container Freight Index fell 1.4pc to a record low of 919.44 in November, after sliding relentlessly for several months. It has picked up slightly since. The Baltic Dry Index measuring freight [...]
Handbook of Modeling High-Frequency Data in Finance (Wiley Handbooks in Financial Engineering and Econometrics)
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Optimism about US jobs data fires up Asia
Shares moved higher as better-than-expected private sector jobs data raised hopes the US is emerging from a soft patch View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
US jobs data and ECB move spark rally
Better than expected US jobs data and a move by the European Central Bank to treat eurozone sovereign debt contagion is firing up the bulls. View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Roaming data costs in Europe to fall
The strict regime of price caps on mobile phone roaming within the EU is to be extended by four years to 2016, the European Commission will announce this week View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Jobs data stoke US recovery fears
The US added just 54,000 jobs in May, confirming fears that the recovery of the world’s largest economy has stalled View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
US jobs data escalate fears of double dip
The US economy adds just 54,000 jobs – far less than the 165,000 expected by economists and confirming fears the recovery is hitting a soft patch as unemployment rises to 9.1 per cent View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
EU wariness and US data hit sentiment
The mood is one of caution as traders remain wary about the eurozone debt crisis and fearful of a slowing in global growth as central banks tackle inflationary pressures View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Strong European data lift growth assets
Strong GDP data from “core” Europe is helping investors recover their animal spirits. Growth assets are seeing buyers on hopes that the recent commodity complex wobble was little more than the removal of speculative froth and was not the harbinger of a global slowdown. View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage
Sony takes stolen user data off the internet
Sony says it has removed from the internet the names and partial addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website, but does not know when it might restart its PlayStation video games network View full post on Financial Times – UK Homepage