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Friday, March 12, 2010

Yesterday, the figure for the number of new applications for unemployment benefits was announced in the United States. Analysts expected a decline over the last week of February to 460.000. The figure published was with 462,000 for the first week of March, slightly higher than expected. In response to this news, the AEX-index decreased and eventually reached a closing price that was 0.6% lower tan the opening at 339.02.

Despite the disappointing figure for the number of new applications for unemployment benefits, U.S. markets closed higer than Wednesday. This was caused by the fact that the U.S. stocks jumped in the last hours of trading due to positive market outlooks of CEO Pandit of Citigroup. He revealed that in his opinion the bank will be very profitable again in the future.

Next week, important macro-economic figures will be published for the Euro zone: the unemployment rate and the CPI

The 6M Euribor remained unchanged at 0.96%. The 10Y Swap increased three basis points to 3.39%.

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