The Traderszone Network

Consumer confidence at -3 for July.
Prior was -8, so an improvement from the April survey (survey occurs every 3 months).

The always-efficient so-called markets exhibited some interesting behavior once again this evening.

First of all, Dow futures flash-smashed higher after re-opening following AAPL’s earnings blow out, only to settle back down to reality very shortly after…

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Fidessa’s Jeff Anderson shares his thoughts on changes to CME Rule 553.

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Banks may need to find up to $50bn of extra capital for new European entities.

BOJ’s Funo was out earlier with some comments, he’s still on the wires.
– BOJ is guiding monetary policy with eye on possible drawbacks of ultra-loose policy.
Seems they’ve been “on the verge” of boosting inflation for a very long time.  

According to ANZ Bank, the headline weak employment growth masks the underlying improvement in the labour market.
ANZ don’t see this as such a negative report, citing the following: