{"id":38440,"date":"2013-05-21T05:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T09:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=38440"},"modified":"2013-05-21T05:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T09:07:58","slug":"europe-stocks-retreats-as-yen-weakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/05\/21\/europe-stocks-retreats-as-yen-weakens\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe stocks retreats as yen weakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <u><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The European stock rose during the muted holiday trading on Monday with a positive investor sentiment towards the economic data released throughout last week. Shares in Europe are expected to open at a lower rate while investors wait for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke comment on whether\u00a0\u00a0 the central bank would start on tampering its bond-buying program.<span id=\"more-1862\"><\/span>UK\u2019s FTSE 100 index was leading shares with 0.48% to 6,755.63 points, while Frankfurt the DAX30 index marked a record high close after climbing 0.69% to 8.455.83 points and the French CAC40 rose 0.54% to 4,022.85 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian stock market was traded in a negative territory on Tuesday while the Bank of Japan begins a two-day policy meeting. The European currency grew from $US1.2834 to $US1.2868 in New York on Friday .The US dollar dropped from 103.19 yen to 102.51 yen. The Japanese yen had reached a record low against the US dollar at 103.31 yen.<\/p>\n<p>Milan\u2019s index dropped by 0.55% to 17,506 points according to data released while the Japanese Nikkei share slipped and touched a 5-1\/2 year high as investors such as Sharp scooped up\u00a0under performing\u00a0stocks. The Nikkei rose by 0.1% to 15,381.02, marking its highest after being traded in a negative territory.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Nasdaq gained 0.20% to 3506.4 points and S&amp;P 500 rose by 0.24 % to 1,671.42 points while The Dow Jones average gained 0.13% to 15,373.70 points.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/jpy\/europe-stocks-retreats-as-yen-weakens.html\">Europe stocks retreats as yen weakens<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\">| HY Markets Official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article provided by <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hymarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HY Markets Forex Blog The European stock rose during the muted holiday trading on Monday with a positive investor sentiment towards the economic data released throughout last week. Shares in Europe are expected to open at a lower rate while investors wait for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke comment on whether\u00a0\u00a0 the central bank &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/05\/21\/europe-stocks-retreats-as-yen-weakens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Europe stocks retreats as yen weakens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}