Market Pulse - Usa
Commodities: DoE data boosts WTI futures, net oil imports lowest since 1992
Energy futures climbed on Thursday following the release of data showing a large drawdown in US stockpiles, which helped to buoy the entire complex.
Bonds: Weaker GDP buoys Gilts, US Treasuries retrace losses
These were the movements in some of the most widely-followed 10-year sovereign bond yields: US: 2. 92% (-3bp) UK: 1. 55% (-1bp) Germany: 0. 71% (-2bp) France: 0. 98% (-1bp) Italy: 2. 08% (+3bp) Spain: 1. 52% (+1bp) Portugal: 2. 03% (+3bp) Greece: 4. 37% (-7bp) Japan: 0. 06% (+0bp).
US close: Solid jobs data sees markets rise
Stocks rose across the board in the US on Thursday, after positive data on the labour market offset investor concerns surrounding potential interest rate hikes coming from the Federal Reserve's most recent meeting.
US open: Stocks bounce back after Fed minutes on better-than-expected labour data
Stocks rose across the board as Wall Street trading kicked off on Thursday, as positive data on the labour market offset investors' concerns surrounding potential interest rate hikes coming from the Federal Reserve's most recent meeting.
Parliament to question Cambridge Analytica chief as part of 'fake news' inquiry
Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) is questioning Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica on 27 February as part of parliamentary enquiry into fake news to investigate if the public has been manipulated and been fed untruths.
US corporate investment may be coming out of the doldrums, Fed's Quarles says
Corporate investment may finally be coming out of the doldrums, a top US central bank official said, sticking to the monetary authority's mantra that policy should continue to be gradually "normalised" given job market strength and the "likely only temporary" softness of inflation.
US close: Markets fall as Fed hints at rate hikes
Wall Street stocks finished lower on Wednesday, after the minutes from the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting suggested more interest rate hikes are on the way.