Equities And Commodities Look Weak

The brief return of risk appetite at the start of the New Year seems to have quickly abated as a flow of poor economic data highlight the rapid deterioration in the global macroeconomic outlook. Weak earnings and poor retail sales in the US over the Christmas period, combined with a higher than anticipated unemployment number has weighed on the Dow Jones in recent trading days.

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