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Thursday, July 22, 2010

After five bad days the AEX finally experienced a good trading day. The Amsterdam Stock Exchange closed at 326.36 points, a gain of 1.8%. The profit was mainly due to good results from U.S. banks including Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo.

U.S. president Barack Obama has put his signature under the so-called ‘Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act’. The Reform Act provides the strongest consumer protection in history, according to Obama. The Reform Act provides, inter alia, the establishment of an oversights board that will monitor the financial markets.

Yesterday, the gold price increased by 0.72% and now yields to USD 1192 per ounce. The gold price is already increasing for months and will continue to increase according to experts. Several outlooks forecast that the gold price will yield to USD 1350 at the end of 2010.

Tomorrow the results of the stess tests will be publicly announced, which were executed at the 91 biggest banks of Europe. Yesterday, leaking information about the results of the stress tests already resulted in a decline of the Euro.

The 6M Euribor remained unchanged at 1.13%. The 10Y swap decreased with 4 basis points to 2.86%.

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