March 14, 2014 – Stock Market News

Today’s Hot Asset – Barclays

Stocks in Asia traded sharply lower during there last trading session of the week. Investors were extremely concerned about the current state of China’s economy. This news has also been combined with the news that tensions between Russia and Ukraine are rising and this is swaying investors towards safer haven assets such as gold. All this pessimism weighed on sentiment and created the sharp slide.

Stock markets in Europe have recently opened and are also trading lower. Investors within the region already look to be having the same concerns as investors within Asia. This should create quite a few good put option opportunities for binary options investors as the session progresses.

Stocks in the U.S. tumbled during a very active session yesterday. Investors in the U.S. set the trend for today’s investors, as fears about the situation in Ukraine scared them away from riskier assets.

Today’s hot asset is, Barclays. Barclays look set to lay-off thousands of members of staff, as senior bosses try and overhaul the troubled financial institute. As Barclays are the seventh largest bank by assets this news will resound around the trading world and this should create volatility on this asset throughout today and next week.

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