Currencies

A wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

A big jump in US pending home sales and at least some reassurance from the ECB had Wall Street running hard for a second consecutive session. Dow up 106.

Barclays Capital looks at historical trends for financial markets in December.

Strong global manufacturing data and a solid private jobs report put Wall Street back into forward gear last night, and now there’s talk of the Fed printing money to help the IMF to save Europe. Dow up 250.

New analysis by ATW’s Jerry Simmons offers the possibility that AUD/USD has seen its peak. No more talk about parity anytime soon?

Wall Street was unable to shake off European concerns at the end of the month despite some positive economic data. Dow down 46.

German insistence that European sovereign bondholders will have to take a haircut after 2013 if needs be has forced a de-rating of all euro-debt despite the Irish bail-out. Dow down 39.

A wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

Russia is continuing its investment diversification away from the US dollar by now nibbling at the Canadian dollar, and the Aussie is next in the sights.

European stocks traded higher last night but activity across the markets was light given the US Thanksgiving holiday.