{"id":63892,"date":"2014-11-18T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=63892"},"modified":"2014-11-18T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:26:28","slug":"stock-markets-report-18th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2014\/11\/stock-markets-report-18th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Markets Report 18th November"},"content":{"rendered":"
November 18, 2014<\/div>
\r\n<\/div><\/div>

By HY Markets Forex Blog<\/a><\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n

US stocks were little changed as the US industrial production declined in October, while the world\u2019s largest economy\u2019s Empire Manufacturing Index came in lower than forecasted.<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 index climbed 0.07% to 2,041.32, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.07% to close at 17,647.75 and Nasdaq technology slid 0.43% lower to 4,671.00 at the time of writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Traders will be focusing on both the inflation report and minutes from the Federal Reserve\u2019s (Fed) minutes from its October 28-19 meeting, which may determine the central bank\u2019s next move.<\/p>\n

The US industrial production fell 0.1% in October, lower than analysts forecast of a 0.2% rise, while the nation\u2019s Empire Manufacturing Index climbed 10.16 points in November, compared to the previous figure of 6.17 points in October.<\/p>\n

Asia Stocks<\/span><\/h2>\n

Stocks in the Asian region were swinging in between gains and losses on Tuesday after data showed that Japan\u2019s economy fell into recession in the last quarter as traders await a decision from the nation\u2019s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to cut sale-tax increase and call an election.<\/p>

\r\n
\r\n

Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n

\r\n

<\/a>\r\n\t Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p>

\r\n
\r\n
\r\n

<\/a>\r\n\t Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p>

\r\n<\/div>\r\n

\r\n
<\/div>\n

The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be holding a press conference later in the day, where he\u2019s expected to announce a delay in the October sale tax increase and call an election for mid-December.<\/p>\n

The Japanese yen weakened to a seven-year low against the US dollar on Tuesday, trading around 116.60 yen on Tuesday versus 115.40 yen overnight.<\/p>\n

The benchmark Nikkei 225 index rallied 1.68% to 17,259.70 points during the early trading hours, while Tokyo\u2019s Topix index gained 1.63% to 1,388.37 points.<\/p>\n

Hitachi saw gains, with shares rising 2.6%, while Sony rallied 5%, Hino Motor was up 1.8% and Suzuki Motor added over 2%.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u2019s Hang Seng index declined 0.19% to 23,752.78 points, while the Chinese mainland Shanghai Composite fell 0.21% to 2,468.74 points at the same time.<\/p>\n

Home prices dropped in 69 out of 70 cities in October, a report from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.<\/p>\n

The Korean kospi index rallied 1.01% to 1,963.18 points, while the Australian S&P\/ASX 200 index fell 0.15% lower to 5,404.60 points.<\/p>\n

Europe Stocks<\/span><\/h2>\n

European stocks opened with gains on Tuesday, boosted by the latest comments from the European central Bank(ECB) as traders awaits Germany\u2019s ZEW index figures and Britain\u2019s inflation data.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s Euro Stoxx 50 gained 0.11% to 3,088.04, while UK\u2019s benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.18% to 6,683.79 at the time of writing. In France, the CAC 40 index added 0.01% to 4,226.69 and the German DAX 30 index edged 0.23% higher to 9,327.52.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Deposit into your trading account today and receive up to $5,000 deposit bonus! Register today!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.<\/span>hymarkets.com\/hylp\/lp2014101<\/span>6.html<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Stock Markets Report 18th November<\/a> appeared first on | HY Markets Official blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By HY Markets Forex Blog US stocks were little changed as the US industrial production declined in October, while the world\u2019s largest economy\u2019s Empire Manufacturing Index came in lower than forecasted. The S&P 500 index climbed 0.07% to 2,041.32, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.07% to close at 17,647.75 and Nasdaq technology slid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}