The Traderszone Network

the latest development should support the global equity and commodities markets. Oil rallies investors anxiously await the outcome of the U.S.

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Former ECB chief economist Ottmar Issing speaking to the BBC 7 Nov
– too many countries joined up with less than complete credentials
– negative interest rates present problems for bank profitability
Issing was the architect of the euro and says he sees relative stability in the currency but has fears for the Eurozone’s future.

Your economic data/event calendar for today 7 Nov
G’day everyone.
I trust you had a good week–end ready for what undoubtedly will be a whirlwind week.
The FBI have started the ball rolling and the fallout is still being felt.

Over the course of the past few days I have been tracking the slow grind upward in the VIX on Twitter, noting that it had been up seven, eight and eventually nine (as of Friday) days in a row.  As the VIX is a mean reverting animal, I find it interesting that until Friday, the VIX had never risen for nine consecutive days in 27 years of VIX data.  Perhaps even more interesting, during the same period, the VIX had fallen nine days in a row on nine separate instances and even m

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Our live blog is tracking reaction after the FBI said the new emails don’t change its July conclusion there’s no grounds for prosecution.