Spreadex Market Update

Quiet morning leaves market status quo intact




The FTSE has spent the morning slipping away from the promising intraday highs it surged to just after the bell. The UK hasn’t been helped by losses for Premier Oil and BP, whilst Vedanta Resources suffered as it cut its full year capital expenditure for both 2015 and 2016 due, of course, to the low oil prices. Balancing these losses is CRH as the company’s asset-purchases from Lafarge and Holcim slowly become more fully-formed, whilst investors remain supportive of TSB Banking’s takeover news.

As its politicians continue to be dragged into the Sisyphean nightmare that is Greek finance, the Eurozone held onto the gains it saw at opening time. The DAX, whilst not exactly resuming the record-push it underwent on Monday, posted steady growth as the day continued, once more crossing the 12000 level that it reached for the first time at the start of the week. With the EU summit unlikely to provide a substantial platform for any rallies in the region, the Eurozone will likely have to maintain its current gains on little more than leftover ECB QE goodwill.

The US futures remain strong, with the Dow Jones still lingering around 18000, largely due to a low-key morning from the fear-inspiring dollar. Yet like in the UK and the Eurozone, there is a woeful lack of US data this to look forward to this afternoon. A spark of life may be provided by FOMC comments from members Lockhart and Evans, but given they aren’t likely to diverge too much from Yellen’s mid-week statement the US markets may be left as wanting as their European cousins.



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