Angela Merkel Received The Majority In The Parliament Once Again

According to the preliminary data of the electoral committee of Germany, the chancellor of the country, Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Party, received the majority in the parliament yet again, having collected about 42% of the votes. It is interesting to note that the results of the elections, which passed in the country this weekend, appeared to be the most impressive for the party since 1990. For the financial markets this news carries, certainly, positive coloring: in any case political stability in the strongest, from an economic point of view, country of Europe has to be present if the 'Old World' wants prosperity in the future of the European Union.

At the same time, according to the specified data of exit polls, the Free Democratic Party (the colleague of the block of Angela Merkel) lost a fraction in the parliament which was not a very positive moment. As a whole participants of the market didn't doubt the victory of Angela Merkel. Therefore any essential movements, even in the currency market after this event, we shouldn't be waiting for. The EUR/USD currency pair bargains today without changes, trading at 1.3534.

Main macroeconomic releases for the week are going to be preliminary data on the PMI indexes for September and IFO Business Climate in Germany, which will be published today and tomorrow. Dynamics of economic indicators in the leading economy of the Eurozone improved recently, and therefore it is possible to expect an additional positive support for the Euro.

From the technical analysis point of view, the next level of the current ascending trend in EUR/USD is the level of 1.37. However for the pair to continue to go up it is important to hold the support level on 1.34.

The publication of data on activity index in the industry of China (according to the HSBC version), which becomes another important event at the beginning of this week. In September, according to preliminary estimates, the indicator grew to 51.2 points having completely recovered from summer recession. On this background the Chinese stock market shows moderate growth - for 0.8%. Other Asian platforms are weaker at the moment, Australian ASX200 loses 0.4%, and Japanese Nikkei falls for 0.15%.