{"id":50255,"date":"2014-04-29T08:11:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=50255"},"modified":"2014-04-29T08:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T12:11:34","slug":"stocks-market-review-29th-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/04\/29\/stocks-market-review-29th-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Market Review 29th April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <u><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/L42ObV\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stocks &#8211; Asia<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Stocks in Asia were seen swinging between losses and gains on Tuesday after the corporate data releases with a regional gauge near its lowest close in a month and the markets in Japan were shut for a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s benchmark Hang Seng index climbed 0.09% to 22,152.00 at the time of writing, while the Chinese benchmark Shanghai Composite edged 0.84% higher to 2,020.34 on Tuesday.<span id=\"more-3915\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The property developer China Vanke slid 1.82%, while China Petroleum &amp; Chemical Corp fell 1.6% after the refiner reported its first-quarter profit which came in lower than forecasted. China\u2019s biggest carrier, China Unicorn climbed 3.60% higher, while the real estate company Hang Lung Properties gained 3.14%.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stocks &#8211; Australia<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In Sydney, the benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 index fell 0.92%, to close at 5,485.30. Australia\u2019s largest gold producer, Newcrest Mining, lost 3.1% while the food company, Goodman Fielder added 4.25%.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stocks &#8211; Europe<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In Europe, stocks were trading higher, following the release of several earning reports from major companies as the market wait for important macroeconomic reports from Germany, the UK and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The European Euro Stoxx climbed 0.54% to 3,182.85 at the time of writing while the German DAX rose 0.85% to 9,526.35. At the same time the French CAC 40 edged 0.29% higher to 4,473.57, while the UK benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 0.55% to 6,737.02.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the Labour Ministry reported the unemployment rate for the first quarter, which climbed to 25.93%, up from the previous figure of 25.73%.<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s retail sales are expected to show a flat reading in February month-on-month and expected to show a 0.7% drop on an annual basis.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">FOMC Meeting <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Federal Reserve will begin its two-day monthly policy meeting later in the day with predictions that the Federal Reserve will announce another cut to its stimulus for the fourth time in a row.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Visit<\/i><\/strong><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i><a title=\"HY Markets\" href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1fxqljy\" target=\"_blank\">www.hymarkets.com \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0to find out more about our products\u00a0<\/i><\/b><strong><i>and start trading today with only $50 using the latest trading technology today<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/S5pqgd\">Stocks Market Review 29th April<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/L42ObV\">| HY Markets Official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Article provided by <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/L42ObV\" target=\"_blank\">HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HY Markets Forex Blog Stocks &#8211; Asia Stocks in Asia were seen swinging between losses and gains on Tuesday after the corporate data releases with a regional gauge near its lowest close in a month and the markets in Japan were shut for a public holiday. Hong Kong\u2019s benchmark Hang Seng index climbed 0.09% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2014\/04\/29\/stocks-market-review-29th-april\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stocks Market Review 29th April&#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-50255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50255","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=50255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}