The U.S. dollar saw gains after a critical manufacturing report in China signaled the world’s second-largest economy is slowing down. Today’s insight includes a bounce-back for oil prices, economic concerns Down Under, testimony from European Central Bank head Mario Draghi and the world’s reaction to China’s slowing economic growth.
U.S. services sector growth edged ahead during August from July to its highest level since May, signaling the United States was on track for solid third-quarter expansion, an industry report showed on Thursday.
While many have been waiting years for the China bubble to burst it seems that maybe that time is here, or at least that is what the commodity markets are telling us. Just when it seemed that commodities were ready to rebound we saw one of the world's biggest hedge funds, and outspoken China bull change, its tune.
The exchange sector was down 60 bps this week, outperforming global equities by 30 bps. The CFTC is considering toughening the rules applied to automated traders, and more exchange news.
U.S. services sector expansion slowed for a third straight month in May, weakening alongside new business activity, an industry report showed on Wednesday.
Retail gasoline prices have hit their high for the year, but the news is not all bad. Despite the fact that AAA says prices have risen 17 cents a gallon, hitting $265 per gallon, prices are a lot lower than a year ago--and taking into consideration the fact that crude oil prices have soared, it could have been a lot worse.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a modestly higher open on Monday after the Nasdaq and Standard & Poors 500 chalked up record high closes on Friday and ahead of Apple's results after the close.
