What to watch AbbVie: For pharmaceutical company AbbVie, sales of its flagship Humira drug - which treats Crohn’s disease and arthritis among other inflammatory conditions - will be the key point to watch in its Friday quarterly earnings report. Zacks Equity Research noted that sales may have been affected by the launch of rival products…
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GOLD Despite “risk off” dominating the last few days on stock markets, gold has been weak and we have seen the dollar recover, with the greenback inversely correlated with bullion and commodities. A major reason for gold’s weakness has been the sharp decline on stocks forcing some traders to close positions on gold to avoid…
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What to watch Big tech earnings: Three trillion-dollar companies report quarterly earnings on Thursday, with Apple, Amazon and Alphabet on deck. Facebook and Twitter also deliver their own earnings reports. All of those firms are firmly in the regulatory spotlight, with lawmakers investigating the role of big tech in public discourse, and the Justice Department…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Most European benchmarks opened higher on Thursday, paring some of yesterday’s losses, as market sentiment gets a fresh boost from the corporate sector. Strong earnings reports from major companies like ASM International NV or Royal Dutch Shell have managed to reassure investors, temporarily at least, ahead of another busy day. There is also…
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What to watch Payment giants: Rivals Visa and Mastercard both deliver their third-quarter earnings reports on Wednesday, with the latter marginally ahead in the share price stakes in 2020 so far. Both firms are dependent on payments volume, to which a recession poses a threat, and the companies’ results will provide a window into the…
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What to watch Microsoft: Microsoft’s share price has gained 33% this year, with the $1.6trn market cap giant helping propel the broader market higher. As with many of the other major tech names, its momentum has stalled of late, with the firm’s share price only advancing 3.1% in the past three months. The company’s cloud…
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EUROPEAN SHARES European shares continued their slide on Tuesday, following drops on US futures overnight. Investors continue to assess the possible impact of more and more restrictions on economies and prefer to limit their exposure to riskier assets due to rising uncertainty. This is especially true in Europe where French President Macron is now expected…
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From a technical point of view, it’s too early to call this the distribution phase of the euro’s recent uptrend. Based on the lack of any subsequent test of the three moving averages after last Monday’s very strong gains, this looks more like a consolidation. Volume remains fairly low so far today, understandable given that…
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What to watch Twilio: Cloud-based platform firm Twilio, which allows software developers to embed voice, messaging, video and other communication services into applications, has seen its share price surge more than 200% in 2020. The shift to a virtual world due to the pandemic has clear benefits for the firm, and earlier this month multiple…
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EUROPEAN SHARES European stocks plunged alongside the S&P 500 at the beginning of Monday’s trading session, amid rising virus worries over the weekend. Most investors want to remain optimistic about the upside potential of stock markets but they are becoming increasingly sceptical about the next US stimulus package. In addition, recent record-breaking infection levels in…
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