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Investors yesterday welcomed the policy statements

The Euro has stalled this morning in trade in Asia after sharp rebound the previous day … The single European currency was down 0.25% at $ 1.3710, having regained nearly 1% yesterday in the wake of statements by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, who reiterated their commitment to do to stay in Greece within the Euro zone. Against the yen, the euro was also down this morning, crossing the threshold of 105 Yen / Euro

Investors yesterday welcomed the policy statements, and the announcement by the European Commission that it would study the creation of a concrete market of Eurobonds. A solution that would pool the European debt markets and reassure, but to which Germany is strongly opposed

Beyond the announcement effects, traders believe that no concrete progress has yet been made on the Greek case after the conference call last night from Merkel, Sarkozy and Prime. Minister of Greece George Papandreou. Markets remain so skeptical about the ability of Europe to prevent a failure of Athens, which in turn could trigger a new crisis in the banking sector in the euro zone.

Their concern was also reflected by higher interest rates during the last auction of government bonds in Italy, Tuesday. Investors expect a deterioration in the rating by Moody’s of Rome in the coming days, after warning from the rating agency on this issue in July.

Today, it was the turn of Spain to issue up to 4 billion euros of government bonds, a transaction that could also be marked by a rise in interest rates and moderate demand from investors, after the further deterioration by Fitch last several Spanish regions highly leveraged.

Stock Markets Fall As Bank Of America And Citigroup Tumble Further

Wall Street ended down sharply Monday, affected by sovereign debt problems which persist in Europe and the United States. The Dow Jones industrials declined 30 0.76%, yielding 94.57 points to 12,385.16 points. The S & P-500, wider, lost 10.70 points, or 0.81% to 1305.44 points.The Nasdaq Composite fell on its side of 24.69 points (-0.89%) to 2765.11 points. Investors are worried a few days before the deadline for reaching agreement on the budget and debt, while no progress was made this weekend on the subject.

Republicans and Democrats Monday sketched the outlines of a plan B to avoid the country’s insolvency. Fitch Ratings has also again threatened to place the note of the U.S. sovereign debt under review with negative implications if no agreement was reached on the issue of raising the debt ceiling of the United States.

In the morning, Moody’s has also suggested the United States than simply eliminating the ceiling on external debt in order to reduce uncertainty for holders of sovereign bonds.

As in Europe, banking stocks were particularly affected by these budget problems. The S & P U.S. banking sector yielded 0.44%, Citigroup and Bank of America stock price have declined by 1.66% and 2.8%. JP Morgan Chase has sold 0.37%.

News Corp. slipped 4.32% in the wake of the wiretapping scandal blamed on News of the World.

IBM has sold 0.14% shortly before the publication of its quarterly results after-hours trading, opening the show a series of results of many technology companies this week that Yahoo and Apple Tuesday, Intel and Microsoft Wednesday Thursday.

Wall Street Gains On Google And Citigroup

Wall Street opened up Friday, the good quarterly results published by Google and Citigroup offset concerns over the sovereign debt of both sides of the Atlantic.

A few minutes after the opening, the Dow Jones gained 0.5% (62.28 points) to 12,499.40, the S & P 500 took 0.6% (7.87 points) to 1,316.74 and the Nasdaq Composite progressed from 0.97% (26.67 points) to 2789.34. Citigroup opened up 3.45% after an increase of nearly 24% of its net profit in the second quarter. Google jumped more than 13% the day after publishing an earnings per share excluding items of 8.74 dollars for the second quarter, while analysts on average expected 7.85 dollars.

Movement on the front of M & A also provides support to markets. The gas producer Petrohawk American flies more than 63% since that is the subject of a friendly takeover of mining group BHP Billiton to $ 12.1 billion.

“The market has generally focused on the problems of debt, but we got good results from big names,” said Peter Cardillo, chief economist at Avalon Partners in New York. “If we see decisions on the ceiling of the debt, the market will focus more on results.”

After Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s Thursday has warned the U.S. federal authorities about the risk of deterioration in the “AAA” rating from the United States in the absence of agreement on raising the ceiling on the national debt.

Barack Obama has suspended negotiations on the budget Friday to allow time for congressional leaders to concoct an “action plan” to break the deadlock and avoid a default. At the macroeconomic level, the U.S. indicators released Friday are broadly consistent with expectations. U.S. industrial production rose 0.2% in June after contracting 0.1% in May

Manufacturing output in the region of New York (Empire State Index) has in turn contracted again in July while showing a slight improvement over last month.