The Euro continues to be under pressure for the 8th straight session. As headlines hit the wires about Greece and Spain market participants look to move away from the risk appetite assets send money flowing out of the Euro and into the U.S. dollar. Playing the move Euro move
Breaking News Out of Greece
U.S. markets seem to be following global markets lower as we kick off the last week of June. Investors are worried about the upcoming European Union summit that ruled not to have Greece leaders attend the summit.
All 3 U.S. stock indexes are pointing to a higher open as investors focus on the FOMC meeting and domestic issues facing U.S. economy. The question of the day is “what will the Fed do?”
U.S. markets dropped more than 1% today as the euro fell off a cliff hitting a 2 year low until the afternoon when the euro regained its footing sending the U.S. dollar lower and equities higher.
U.S. markets started out flat but eventually gave into selling pressure to lock in the 10 loss in 12 days and a new multi month low.
This stock market has problems. Problems indeed! With what appeared to be an oversold bounce this morning was shattered on more negative news from the ECB cutting funding to certain Greece’s banks not to mention the FOMC statement about highlighting several members saw the need for additional stimulus causing the bulls packing once again.
JP Morgan losses seriously diminish credibility in banking sector Political saga in Eurozone continues to shake investor confidence China economic data disappoints and weighs further on risk correlated assets Commodity bloc and emerging market FX exposed German; UK inflation mixed The intense risk-off price action that we saw over the past several sessions looked like it might be poised for reprieve into North America on Thursday, before markets got wind
Most of the major currency pairs continue to show significant correlations with the MSCI World Stock Index, suggesting that broad-based risk appetite trends remain dominant as drivers of price action. This puts thematic macro-level concerns – specifically, the durability of the US recovery and its ability to offset headwinds from Europe and China facing global growth – squarely at the forefront. The US economic calendar is relatively quiet, with headline event risk clustered at the end of the week as PPI and UofM Consumer Confidence readings cross the wires on Friday. This puts the onus on evaluating the extent of downward pressure.
The ongoing political turmoil in Europe continues to shake the markets, with the inability for Greece to form a government now fueling speculation that the country might soon exit the Eurozone. Although an exit by Greece would have only a minimal impact on the broader economy, given the country’s size, fears of contagion seem to be the bigger problem right now, as investors start to price in the impact this will have on larger economies like Spain and Italy.
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