[ad_1] Investors’ focus on Tuesday will be on the corporate space as US tech giant Alphabet and carmaker Tesla release their latest quarterly results. In the case of the former, the spotlight will be on the whether Google’s parent company’s results live up to the recent mania around artificial intelligence or not. Tesla investors meanwhile…
[ad_1] The key data release on Thursday was expected to be the Philly Fed´s regional manufacturing index, which economists believed would reveal a small improvement in activity levels for the month of November. As ever, investors would likely also be keeping close tabs on the latest weekly unemployment claims figures. The economic calendar for Thursday…
[ad_1] The focus in financial markets in the middle of the week will shift back towards Asia, where official statistics for consumer and factory prices are due out. Brexit negotiations and the tech slump in the States won’t be far from investors’ minds however. Also in the US, the Department of Labor will release its…
[ad_1] The market spotlight at the end of the week will be firmly on the start the three-day summit between European Union leaders. Hopes for a breakthrough on agreeing on the details of a proposed €750bn EU Reconstruction Fund are low going into the meeting, given the wide range of interest of the various governments,…
[ad_1] Analysts at Capital Economics forecast that the cartel and allied producers will only agree to roll-over their existing production curbs due to Saudi balking at the risk of seeing its share of the global oil market being eroded further by ‘free riders’. “If we are right and OPEC+ simply rolls over its current agreement,…