How the ECB Economic Forecast Clears the Path for U.S. Markets

The key to the U.S. market Thursday emanated from overseas, and I believe helps to clear a path for U.S. stocks to rise moving forward. The European Central Bank (ECB) meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, the world’s last divided city, offered a key tidbit from its highly publicized activities. The ECB’s economic forecast is critical to the U.S. market because of the interrelation between the dollar and euro and the U.S. Fed’s interest in it. The news was good for Europe, but how does that translate into American English? See the full report here. Article interests SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY), PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq: QQQ), iShares Europe (NYSE: IEV), iShares Germany (NYSE: EWG), Global X FTSE Greece 20 (NYSE: GREK).

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