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U.S elections brought damages to the state according to foreign policy experts

An interview conducted by CNBC with the President of Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer stated that even the election has ended, the damages can still be felt in the United States because the country’s international allies worries about global trade agreements. Even after the vote casting, allies would struggle and lack confidence. This caused other countries to doubt the businesses in the United States, regardless who among Trump or Clinton will acquire the victory.

Bremmer further stated his predicted outcome about the tendency that the power in the Middle East more likely will be given to Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. While in Europe, the issue regarding Brexit will become more vague and undetermined as it will endure longer process. On the other hand, in the Asian continent, China is expected to fill the demand vacuum since it has the capacity to expand worldwide as well as to globally invest to infrastructure assets.

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Financial Markets Gunning for Biggest Moves Post-Brexit
The international financial market has been experiencing its biggest and most volatile movements ever since the Brexit referendum was released on June 2016 due to an unprecedented Trump victory in the US elections. Gold stocks have increased significantly and has now posted its biggest movement since Brexit, while 10-year US Treasury yields have weakened by up to 20 points, its biggest reversion since June. Meanwhile, S&P 500 futures decreased by more than 3% and VIX futures increased by a total of 4%.

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ConocoPhillips to sell gas assets worth $8 billion
The largest independent energy corporation, ConocoPhillips (COP.N) decided to sell their natural gas assets worth $8 billion and they also have plans of cutting 4% on their capital budget by next year. According to the company’s executives, the purpose of this cut back is to allocate funds for further operational improvements. The policy emphasized not only about the reduction of oil costs but it also highlighted the marked down of commodity prices which prevented the progress of Conoco for the past two years.


The planned disbursement for 2017 is allocated to shale productions which is associated with the United States and focuses on Europe and Alaska. Compared with the past decade of 28 nations that the company is serving, the focus for this year seems smaller, seeing the COP.N to manage within 14 locations only worldwide. The company’s estimated spending in 2017 production should be 1.54 million to 1.57 million of oil barrels each day.

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Emerging Markets Sell-Off Increases after Trump Victory
The sell-off in emerging markets exhibited an unexpected increase following concerns that developing economies around the world could possibly be hit by export drops and capital outflows once President-elect Trump assumes office. The Treasury market finished off the week with its worst outputs since 2009 prior to a US bank holiday on Friday. Donald Trump has previously outlined a more protectionist scheme and could introduce fiscal and economic stimulus which could prompt the Federal Reserve to increase the frequency of its interest rate hikes this coming 2017.

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Australia Should Scrap its Largest Bank Notes like India - UBS Group AG
UBS analysts are saying that Australia should also scrap its big bank notes and follow in India’s footsteps, since this would be ultimately beneficial for the Australian economy as well as for Australian banks. Some projected benefits would include increase in bank deposits and tax revenues, while decreasing the occurrence of crime and fraud. India had previously made a move to remove its large banknotes as part of its crackdown on the country’s black economy as well as to counter tax evasion. The European Central Bank also stated last February that the central bank was discussing on removing 500 EUR banknotes since these high-value bills were often touted to be used for criminal and illegal purposes.

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Higher volumes of exports boosted Japan's economy
The Japan's economy have seen greater improvement from the month of July until September due to a higher number of international trades. The country's GDP escalated to 2.2% within three months. Japan is greatly concern about the anti-free trade rhetoric supported by the newly-elect US President D. Trump since it is expected that this campaign would bother the Japanese region.
Subsequent to the results of the U.S elections, the yen curtailed versus the dollar. Hence, the country's good became cheaper in abroad, this brought positive talks for the foreign exporters. The world's third-largest economy accumulated a better-than- expected result of 0.5% while the forecast showed 0.2% only. However, some analysts who stated that the nation is relying much on exports and considered that these are windfalls only.

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U.S. Dollars Strengthens Unabatingly That May Lead to Inflation
Greenback continues to surge with the unexpected win of Trump that signals inflation to take place sometime in the future. It climbed as high as 99.247 on Monday during Asian session from 97 handle prior to election. His principles advocated during his campaign such as protectionism, changes in immigration, infrastructures and debt spending set inflation back to the market at the same time, this would cause the U.S. Dollars to further appreciate in value. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 2 percent from 1.80 percent before election. This surge is expected to continue with short-term trend moves up, it is anticipated for U.S. Dollars to get stronger.

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Chinese Industrial Production rose but retail sales slowed down
The economic activity of China was presumed to stabilize last month, however, retail sales fall off due to worries about the outlook of the US-China trade frictions under the administration of President Donald Trump. Moreover, the industrial sector performed a better-than-expected 6.1% growth in the month of October while the retail industry dropped an estimated 10% sales.
China’s fixed-asset investment further acquire 8.3% increase for the past 10 months of the present year, this result exceeded the expectation from January to October seeing the government allocated infrastructure expenditures in order to reinforce growth as shown in the official data on Monday.

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Economists Expect Increased Inflation Rates, Unemployment Surge Under Trump Presidency

A group of economists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are speculating that although a number of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed policies could boost economic growth in the US, his other policies could possibly have a negative impact on the national economy in the long term. The group of economists came up with three possible scenarios during Trump’s presidency, the first one being a full implementation of all of Trump’s campaign platforms, the second one being an enactment of only Trump’s fiscal policies, and the third one being a hawkish Federal Reserve paired with restrictions of US immigration and trade policies.

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Better Global Economic Standing Despite Rise in Unemployment Rate
Recent data showed a 3% growth but this was because of short-term fleeting factors. The unemployment rate stayed low while the underemployment and long-term unemployment has increased with weakened nominal wage and inflation. This is in contrast of unemployment rates released by IMF saying that it increased were majority part-time.
Australia's economic status is performing better than other countries and it would get stronger if there will be more investments and invigorate business confidence. However if the investments remained subtle, company earnings would be affected and be in tension. Also, the consumer consumption would stay low if the job earnings would not increase.
The RBA should keep interest rate slow and maximize infrastructure spending to increase in employment rates in current global economic environment.

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US Dollar Drops, Asian Stocks Bounce Back as Trump Victory Shock Fades
For the first time in nearly four days, Asian stocks increased in value while the USD dropped from its five-month high against the Japanese yen due to investors questioning the possible overreaction of the financial market to Donald Trump’s recent win during the US elections. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index increased due to energy shares after crude oil prices rose to its highest levels in seven months after the OPEC finally agreed on proposed output cutbacks. For the major currencies, the KRW had the most gains after rebounding from its near-record lows since June 2016. The Japanese 10-year bond yields were also able to maintain its zero value after staying within negative territory for a total of eight weeks.

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The highest-ranking Russian official accused for receiving $2m bribe

The Economy Minister of Russia, Ulyukayev were accused for accepting payments after he approved the takeover of 50% stake of Bashneft to a giant oil company, Rosneft. According to the investigators, the Russian minister collected $2m (£1.6m) worth of bribe, however, Ulyukayev pleaded not guilty on the allegation.

Alexei Ulyukayev is considered to be the highest-ranking Russian official to be dismissed and arrested since the failed coup in 1991.

The minister was arrested Tuesday morning and expected to face eight to 15 years of imprisonment but he continued to denied the blame and described it as “an act of provocation against a state official”. Moreover, the court allowed him to take a house arrest until January 15.

President Vladimir Putin take an immediate action and impeached Mr. Ulyukayev since the 60-year-old minister broke the trust of Putin. The acting economy minister recently appointed was Yevgeny Yelin.

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Morgan Stanley Bank Gained $10m After Stocks Rallied

Morgan Stanley acquired more than 10 million U.S. dollars equivalent to 8 million pounds of shares after Trump’s victory in U.S. presidential election. Stocks rallied in effect of post election and the bank, Morgan Stanley collected as much as a fifth of their collated earnings as their highest for more than a year.

After the election, this has been the best performance as stocks recovered from 2008 to 2009 financial crisis. The market sees Trump’s campaign to elevate inflation of infrastructures and Federal Reserve’s fiscal policies that further boost banks turnover.

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Dollar Falls, Bonds Increase, Asian Stocks Fluctuate Prior to Yellen Statement
The USD lost a significant amount of its value as compared to other major currency pairs while Treasury yields surged and Asian stocks experienced fluctuations prior to the release of the US inflation data, as well as a testimonial from Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen which is expected to determine market expectations on the US interest rate. Meanwhile, the EUR edged higher after a nine-day slump as the dollar index reverted back from its highest level reached in nine months. New Zealand and Australian stocks extended its gains, while benchmark Treasuries also inched higher. Crude oil prices fell as American stockpiles incurred more gains in the market.

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The number of jobless claimants in UK grew by 9.8K

The office for National Statistics of UK presented mixed data of unemployment rate which fall to 4.8% from the previous 4.9%, it is considered the lowest since the third quarter of 2005.. The Claimant Count Change presented a negative outlook as the number climb up to 9.8k in the month of October, the result is greater than the expected which is 2K only.
Moreover, the data released last September got affected and modified as it rise to 5.6k with only 0.7K on the previous result. This occurrence showed some signals about the worsening conditions in the labor ministry. This complication further stirred the GBP/USD as it insignificantly slid downside.