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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Unemployment in the euro zone countries remains at 10.0% in July. Despite good macroeconomic figures for the first half of the year, the euro zone economy hasn’t managed to create more jobs.

Euro zone inflation, measured by the consumer price index has decreased slightly. Compared to a year earlier, prices rose 1.6% during the year from August 2009. The same index for July resulted in a figure of 1.7%. The decline in the index is mainly due to cheaper oil. During August the price of oil dropped 9.6%.

The current average daily trade in foreign exchange contracts amounts to more than USD 4,000 billion. This figure was published by the Bank for International Settlements. In 2007 daily trade was at USD 3,300 billion a day. During this period deals with immediate delivery grew the fastest: almost 50% to USD 1,500 billion.

United States consumer confidence, as published by the Conference Board, has risen to 53.5 points. Analysts expected an increase to 50.7 points and a month ago the index was still at 50.4. The baseline (100 points) for the index is the confidence level of 1985.

The 6M Euribor remains at 1.14% and the 10Y swap increased 6 basis points to 2.37%.

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