Spreadex Market Update

Global markets continue to rally



Global markets continued to rally today despite a string of poor data from the US, including the market-moving jobs data. Non-farm employment change came in at 157,000 but economists were expecting an addition of 161,000. Furthermore, the US unemployment rate edged higher to 7.9% from a previous 7.8%. However, investors seem to have used such poor data as a catalyst for optimism and the markets continued to move higher.

Although the calamity of today’s data cannot arguably be accredited to the US alone. Manufacturing data from China today came in worse than expected as did manufacturing data from the UK.

Thus, today’s rally could be attributed to investors hopeful that a string of poor data will encourage policy officials to continue to remain flexible over their measures to help stimulate. Yet such investors should always be wary that any ambiguous statements by policy officials which hint that stimulus measures may be drawing to an end, could remind investors that the global economic environment is still unstable.

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