April 23, 2015 – Forex Daily Market News

During yesterday’s American session, we saw a lot of movement on the stock market. The U.S. fast-food chain McDonald’s released its quarterly earning report which exceeded the expectation and pulled the price of the stock up by 3.13%. After the market closed, the Facebook announced its earning report which disappointed investors and on pre-market we see a fall of 2% so far. Contrarily eBay, which also published its earning report after the stock market closed, showed that the profit was higher than expected. On pre-market eBay peaked more than 5% up. Today, pay attention to Amazon, Google Inc and Microsoft stocks as they will release their reports which is connected with great binary option trading opportunity!

During the European session we should pay attention to the European Flash Manufacturing and Services PMI index which will come out at 8.00AM (GMT). The reading is expected to be strong, which might support European single currency. Yesterday, Euro experienced drop, partially due to uncertainty over Greece debt. The EUR/USD pair declined below 1.0700 before the data comes out. The European stock market suffered losses which might be bigger, if the German data shows lower figure than expected.

Asian session was quiet. Nikkei added 0.27%, HSI down 0.38% and Australian ASX up 0.12%. The Hong Kong stocks reached the highest level since 2007, when reached over 28,000. However, the Chinese manufacturing index declined to 49.2 – one year low – which pushed the HSI back down below 28,000.

Today’s main events:

08.00 GMT: EUR – Flash Manufacturing PMI – measures the activity level of purchasing managers in the manufacturing sector.

08.00 GMT: EUR – Flash Services PMI – measures the activity level of purchasing managers in the services sector.

08.30 GMT: GBP– Retail Sales – measure the change in the total value of inflation-adjusted sales at the retail level

14.00 GMT: USD – New Home Sales – measures the annualized number of new single-family homes that were sold during the previous month

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