LANGE FINANCIAL SERVICES DECEMBER 27, 2011 8:45AM Since our last update in November, the market remained in an almost unpredictable, volatile, and difficult trading environment state, largely reflecting the deteriorating Euro financial crisis. Many stocks had declined noticeably in recent months due to prevailing uncertainties and are still well below earlier peaks. During this period, as well as in prior…
Next week we’ll have a holiday shortened week due to Christmas and traders will likely be taking the week off because of light volume. Consumer confidence will be an important economic report as investors and traders gauge whether or not they should become more bullish in 2012. In Europe, Germany will report inflation numbers for the past month — key…
Europe’s Rescue Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough Published: Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011 | 3:28 PM ETText Size By: John Carney Senior Editor, CNBC.com Will the master plan agreed by the leaders of France and Germany on Monday work? The “Merkozy Plan”—as some traders are calling it, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy—seeks to impose budget discipline…
We believe, as per below. that this week is a critical week for the Eurozone. While we have had some promising news in the last week, and tonight in Italy, its important things keep moving in the right direction. Our markets here have rallied nicely last week as expected. We have always maintained the position that one needs to “buy…
England, Australia and European central banks will release important rate decisions that could potentially have drastic effects on the market. On Wednesday of this week, we had a cooordinated central bank effort to ease liquidity within the banking system. However, the solvency issues still remain. It is estimated that the ECB will ease interest rates by 50bps, although some analysts…