A Boeing 737-800 passenger plane en route from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Rostov-on-Don in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, crashed on Saturday at the city airport, killing all 62 people onboard, said the Investigative Committee of Russia.
The AUDUSD pair fell during the day on Monday, as we continue to show signs of weakness in the Australian dollar.
If traders drifting back to their desks for the start of the new trading year were expecting a quiet start, Chinese economic news delivered a shock to global markets with the Caixin Manufacturing index coming in below expectation at 48.2 against a forecast of 48.9, with the Nikkei 225 falling almost 600 points to close at 18,450.98 on the release.
Brazil’s cash-strapped mining giant Vale has sold four mega freighters to a Chinese consortium for US$423 million, local media reported Wednesday.
AUDUSD has been moving in a steady uptrend, trading above an ascending trend line connecting the latest lows of price action. Price recently made a swing high near the .7350 minor psychological level before showing signs of a pullback.
When Lei Jun told the World Internet Conference in China last year that his tech startup Xiaomi will be the world leader in smartphones in the next five or 10 years, an Apple executive prophetically replied, “It is easy to say, but more difficult to do.”
Last week, the People’s Bank Of China allowed the yuan to fall sharply, causing chaos in share markets and drawing criticism from multinationals who said the move would hurt their businesses.
NZDUSD got rejected in its test of the descending triangle resistance and is now moving back to the bottom around the .6500 major psychological level. Whether a bounce or a break takes place depends on the outcome of the economic reports from New Zealand in the next few days.
Alcoa Inc. (AA, quote) reported second-quarter numbers on Wednesday which came below analysts’ expectations. Revenue for the quarter rose 1 percent year-over-year to $5.9 billion, while earnings increased to $140 million from $138 million it reported for the same quarter last year.
Stealing a phrase from Timothy Leary and adding a twist. The sixties were a tumultuous time and marked a time of rapid change. Today, I think that many people, businesses and government are suffering Futureshock, with its debilitating effect of paralysis, and creative destruction of old guard business power.
