Wall Street fecha semana sem rumo. Grandes tecnológicas pressionam

[Surfer]

Pelo menos não em todas as matérias.

Lembraste do Durão quando afirmou que o pais estava de tanga?!

Pois nessa altura quase ninguém o levou a sério e alguns até gozaram com o homem, outros acusaram-no de maldizeres.

E não é que o homem falava a verdade?!.....Eheheheh

Imagina se ele compara-se Portugal à Argentina?! Nem as forças policiais lhe valiam como ao Francisco Assis.

Enfim......

Abraço!

[Karamba]

Como refere o Bill Gross, a "salada" do mercado de dívida pública ainda poderá dar uns trocos aqui pela europa (a propósito, já repararam que a salada americana ainda continua a pingar (?)...embora menos do que por estas bandas).

Entretanto, sente-se (e ouve-se) que os políticos europeus estão completamente à nora com este "super euro", embora alguns -como o nabo do Schroeder- digam o contrário (os políticos mentem todos os dias eheh)
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DEFLATION RISK?

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Monday he did not see any threat of deflation in Germany.

"As the head of the council of economic experts said this morning he thought the IMF report was exaggerated. We don't see any danger of deflation in Germany," Schroeder told a news conference following a meeting of leaders of his Social Democrat party.

But Berlin's DIW institute said on Monday it saw a high risk of deflation in Germany and called on the European Central Bank to cut interest rates quickly.

DIW chief economist Gustav Adolf Horn said in an interview with Reuters it agreed with the International Monetary Fund which issued a blunt warning at the weekend that Germany could soon see falling prices.

"We share the IMF's assessment," Horn said. "We have had a bourse crash, stagnation of the gross domestic product, appreciation of the euro -- all that leads to (downward) pressure on wages and prices."

The June Euribor futures contract, a market barometer of euro zone rate expectations, hit a fresh contract high of 97.805, and was last at 97.790, up 2.5 bps.

The Euribor strip was indicating three-month interest rates at 2.205 percent, and pricing in an 80-percent chance that the ECB will cut rates by a quarter of a point by the end of June.

With no major economic indicators set for release this week, markets will be awaiting a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday, who will address the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.

The June Bund future shot to a high of 117.58, its highest since February 1999 on a continuation basis, with the June contract marking a life-of-contract peak as safe-haven concerns were refreshed.

June Bunds were was last up 59 ticks on the day at 117.47.

The benchmark 10-year Bund yield was 7.6 basis points down to yield 3.762 percent.

Bunds outperformed U.S. Treasuries with the 10-year yield spread narrowing six basis points to 28 from its widest levels this year. The 10-year euro swap spread was 16 basis points.