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PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.01%) are little changed, down -0.01%, and European stocks are down -0.50% ahead of the results of today’s FOMC meeting where the Fed is expected to raise its fed funds target range by 25 bp. Another negative for stocks is weakness in energy producing companies with Jan WTI Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.37%) are up +0.28% and European stocks are up +0.89% at an 11-1/4 month high. A rally in Italian bank stocks is leading European equities higher after UniCredit SpA, Italy’s biggest bank, climbed over 7% when it said it plans to raise 13 billion-euros ($ 13.8 billion) in Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.01%) are little changed, down -0.02%, as they fell back from a contract high in overnight trade. European stocks are up +0.08% at a 11-1/4 month high. A +4.19% surge in Jan WTI crude oil (CLF17 +4.39%) to a 17-month high lifted energy producing stocks and pushed global Read More

Last review I mentioned that an important target of 19200 has been achieved, and that might bring some considerable covering at list on the Daily, especially when a shortening of the thrust while not touching the upper Bollinger band was seen clearly. But the stock markets over the passing week had their own agenda, and the Dow Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.03%) are up +0.03% as the market consolidates following Thursday’s rally to an all-time high. European stocks are up +0.31% at an 11-month high on positive carry-over from the ECB’s decision Thursday to extend QEE until the end of next year. European equities also received a boost after Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.10%) are up +0.02% and European stocks are up +0.30% at an 11-month high as the markets expect the ECB later today to announce an extension of its QE program. Government bond prices fell and EUR/USD (^EURUSD) rose to a 3-week high on speculation the ECB may also Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.01%) are up +0.02% and European stocks are up +1.01% at a 7-1/4 month high on optimism the ECB will prolong QE. Expectations are for the ECB at its monthly meeting tomorrow to extend its monthly asset purchases of 80 billion euros by 6 to 9 months. Also, Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.03%) are little changed, up +0.05%, as a -0.85% decline in Jan WTI crude oil (CLF17 -1.08%) weighs on energy producing stocks. Crude oil is under pressure on concern over whether OPEC will be able to adhere to its recently announced production cuts. European stocks are up +0.70% Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.34%) are up +0.46% and European stocks are up +1.28% at a 3-week high as the markets recovered from a brief sell-off after Italian voters voted ‘No” to Prime Minster Renzi’s constitutional reforms. Dec mini S&Ps had dropped to a 2-week low and EUR/USD (^EURUSD)tumbled to a 20-month Read More

The Month of November has finally printed a strong bullish bar, engulfing pattern and a pinbar shape on sloping 8 EMA, penetrating deeply the upper Monthly Bollinger band, a very bullish picture for the mid term. However, for that important formation to develop, a thrust up above the High is needed to be set in Read More