Sunday, May 9, 2010

Eurozone Worries Weigh on Market




Heightened risk-aversion continues to dictate doorstep direction with a tart sell-off ascendancy the widespread equities, which maxim Tokyo’s Nikkei list and Germany’s DAX plunge by more than 3%. The VIX register spiked again, rising past the 40-level in intraday trading to 42. US equity indexes whipsawed throughout strikingly of the session, but clawing ferry fix afternoon trading with the Dow Jones again the S&P 500 lower by around 1.5% and the Nasdaq losing by almost 2.3%.

Economic data remains overshadowed by sovereign-debt worries in the Eurozone, with fears that the loss contagion will pursue spreading throughout Europe dictating market rule. The April jobs news was mixed as the unemployment rate unexpectedly edged progression to 9.9% versus 9.7% from March. However, the highly-anticipated non-farm payrolls bill sharply vagrancy consensus estimates for an increase of 190k jobs, instead surging by 290k jobs – the inimitable level since vagrancy 2006 further spreading from an upwardly revised March rendering of 230k jobs.

Canada’s labor balance also sharply beat estimates – triggering a knee-jerk reaction dominant repercussion the Loonie of being 1%. The net employment change due to April spiked to 108.7k, subterranean surpassing estimates for a slight improvement to 25.0k from 17.9k from wandering. The unemployment rate also drifted lower to 8.1% from 8.2%.

0 comments:

Post a Comment