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Asian Markets Trade Up Ahead Of Yellen

By Spreadex Market OverviewFeb 11, 2014 09:57AM ET
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Asian Markets Trade Up Ahead Of Yellen
By Spreadex   |  Feb 11, 2014 09:57AM ET
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AM Analysis

A positive session in Asia overnight

European futures are indicating a higher open, following a positive session in Asia overnight with the FTSE indicating a 20 point higher open. With a light economic calendar, markets are likely to remain subdued ahead of Janet Yellen’s testimony later today. This could give investors valuable insight into how the Federal Reserve plans to approach tapering and interest rates over the next couple of years.

The Federal Reserve has already chosen to slow the pace of its bond-purchases twice, reducing its monthly buying from $85 billion to $65 billion. With a worse than expected payroll figure on Friday and a deteriorating economic data, the Fed could use this to ease of tightening.

UK financial stocks are likely to be in the limelight after Barclays reported full-year profit that missed analyst estimates. Profits in 2013 declined 37 percent as stricter regulation put pressure on its fixed –income business. Pre-tax profit fell to £2.52 billion from £3.99 billion a year earlier, with analysts expecting a £2.99 billion consensus. Chief Executive Office Antony Jenkins will continue to eliminate jobs to remove £1.7 billion pounds of costs by 2015. Despite the miss, Barclays have announced they have increased the bonus pool by 10% to £2.38 billion.

– Lee Mumford

PM Analysis

Janet Yellen’s first public comments as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve

The main headline of the afternoon concerns Janet Yellen’s first public comments as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve.  Whilst addressing a House Committee Yellen emphasised the importance of the work done by her predecessor Ben Bernanke and that she will look for continuity during the transition.  It was in this vain that she stated she expects to continue to reduce asset purchasing but hinted new guidance may be needed.

The labour market was highlighted as an area where the recovery was far from complete and that she will not rely solely on unemployment numbers as a sign of genuine recovery.  She pointed to the large number of Americans unemployed for longer than six months and part-time workers who would prefer full time work as data that is not represented by merely the unemployment figure.

– Alex Conroy

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