Market Overview - Page 338

This Friday may be very turbulent for stock markets on the so-called Quadruple witching day. There are four such days a year when market participants switch from expiring futures and options to individual stocks contracts and futures and options on.

The Dow Jones slipped again on Thursday. A quiet day of trade showed bulls struggling to lift the index higher. Another weak initial jobless claims release was little help to the Dow, as economists continue to stress that the unemployment.

Emerging market stocks were set for weekly gains on Friday as investors looked to monetary stimulus to fuel a post-coronavirus recovery, while markets awaited a Russian central bank meeting at which a cut in interest rates is widely anticipated. The.

China’s Center for Information and Industry Development, or CCID, revealed on June 18 that its 18th CCID Global Public Chain Technology Evaluation Index. This index ranked 37 well-known global cryptos using technical specifications. According to the table published by local.

Asian shares and U.S. stock futures teetered in choppy trade on Friday as lingering concerns about an fresh spike in coronavirus cases offset growing hopes for a quick economic recovery. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.1%..

The 27 European governments are negotiating for the first time Friday a proposal for 750 billion euros ($841 billion) to tackle the Covid-19 crisis. However, the new stimulus plan has sparked division among EU countries and it is unclear when.

China’s two biggest e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com handled $136.51 billion of sales through their platforms in 24 hours, during one of the country’s biggest shopping events. Known as 618 because it falls on June 18, the festival was being.

The Bank of England on Thursday added another £100 billion to its quantitative easing program in a bid to shore up the U.K. economy amid the fallout from the coronavirus crisis. The additional bond purchases will take the total value.

A defacto lockdown in the United States has lasted longer than expected despite a rollback in some restrictions on mobility, pointing to a deeper-than-expected contraction in gross domestic product in the second quarter, the IMF said on Thursday. Details will.

US employment is not recovering as fast as expected. Last week, the initial claims exceeded 1.5M. This was the lowest number in 13 weeks, but significantly higher than the forecasted 1.3M. The same can be said about the continued claims..

The S&P 500 Index may face a heightened level of volatility on June 19. According to FT finance correspondent Robin Wigglesworth, $1.8 trillion worth of S&P 500 options are expiring in the next 48 hours. The analyst said: Massive amount.

The original use case for bitcoin might have fallen flat, but the innovation it unleashed continues to push blockchain implementation forward. Blockchain and cryptoassets were developed, which at this point is well known, to disrupt, disintermediate, or otherwise topple the.