● Traders are buying Treasuries: almost a record for 24 According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, commercial traders have boosted net long bond contract volume to an all-time high since 1992 G., except for the spring-summer period 2005 G.
● Donald Trump's election victory caused a significant shift in bond market expectations regarding US economic growth and inflation. Nevertheless, economists still expect, what FED повысит процентные ставки дважды в следующем году.
● The recent sales of US debt obligations with a three-year maturity do not look happy. Even though, that interest rates on them were growing, reaching the mark 1.452 percent per annum – this is a record figure since April 2010 of the year, demand for these securities, by investors, turned out to be minimal since 2009 of the year. That is, after supposedly passing the first wave of the Super Crisis.
● Everything is stacking up against gold at the moment. The cost of futures for precious metals fell to a minimum since February in anticipation of the results of the meeting of the Federal Reserve, increased risk appetite amid record levels of stock indices in the United States, as well as the outflow of funds from “золотых ETF”. Note, that the withdrawal of assets from such funds is already underway 20 days in a row is a record-breaking period since May 2013 G.
● UniCredit is the largest Italian bank. Bank shares rose after the announcement of the reduction 14000 employees
Alphabet spins its self-driving car business into a new company called Waymo
● JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) announced a doubling of the volume of its share buyback program, and presenting their prospects for 2017 a year at a meeting with investors.
Компания Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (
Nasdaq: ISRG) announced that, that its board of directors approved an increase in the volume of the share repurchase program to $3 billion.
● Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) held negotiations on investing in the SoftBank technology fund at $100 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal citing informed sources.
● Pfizer Inc. (PFE) announced an increase in its quarterly dividend by 6,7%.
● Investors expect, that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates on Wednesday and make economic forecasts for the first time since the presidential election
● China has threatened to punish one of the American automakers with an antitrust fine. Analysts believe, that this could be a response to Trump's support for Taiwan
● Silicon Valley startup Lucid Motors will unveil its electric car on Wednesday, which will have to compete with Tesla. Его поддерживают китайские инвесторы
● American regulators suggested, so that all new cars must have technology, allowing them to "communicate" with each other. They hope, that this will help reduce the number of accidents
● Goldman Sachs plans to appoint David Solomon and Harvey Schwartz as CEOs Lloyd Blankfein. They will replace the role played by Gary Cohn., who leaves the bank for the Trump administration
● Wells Fargo will be subject to US regulatory sanctions for, what failed stress test. He will be prohibited from setting up organizations abroad and buying companies from the non-banking sector, пока он не исправит проблемы
● Oculus VR, owned by Facebook and engaged in virtual reality, changed its structure. She now has two divisions, focused on mobile devices and personal computers. В результате этого Oculus теперь ищет нового гендиректора
● French pharmaceutical company Sanofi is in talks to buy Swiss rival Actelion. Trade size can reach $30 billion
● In the United States, retailers and other companies, highly dependent on imports,
против идеи республиканцев ввести tax на импорт, because of which they can suffer greatly,
рассказали FT лоббисты ● Heineken aims to increase sales through cider and its various brands. So, Expected, что продажи сидра будут очень быстро расти в Центральной и Восточной Европе в ближайшие годы
