Spreadex Market Update

Euro markets opened positively



European markets opened positively today as data from China which showed that second-quarter growth fell in line with expectations extinguished investors’ concerns over a slowdown in China. It seems investors were bracing for a poor figure based on meagre trade balance data last week. However, the markets are still not really jumping with joy as the figures just about met expectations and thus there is still an air of caution that China is struggling to maintain their growth rates.

Problems in the Eurozone are emerging once again today as rating agency Fitch downgraded France’s triple-A credit agency. Fitch decided that the French economy is likely to contract by 0.3% in 2013 before marginally recovering in 2014. Yet French politicians dismissed the downgrade, asserting the strength of government policies amidst a series of global economic downturns. As a result, the markets are generally unresponsive to the downgrade as it seems traders have grown tired with rating agencies attempts to make a bad-situation-worse with what seems to be a perpetual string of downgrades.

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