Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: stock news — 11-11-2011.

European stocks advanced, recouping this week’s losses, after the Italian Senate approved an austerity package, raising optimism that the euro area’s second- most indebted country will contain the debt crisis.

The Senate in Rome voted 156 to 12 to pass the package of measures promised to the European Union in a bid to boost growth and cut Italy’s debt of 1.9 trillion euros ($2.6 trillion), the world’s fourth biggest. Opposition lawmakers did not take part in the vote, allowing the bill to pass.

In Greece, a new unity government led by Lucas Papademos was sworn in today with a mandate to implement budget measures and decisions related to a 130 billion-euro bailout agreed on an Oct. 26. Elections may take place on Feb. 19. The new government said Evangelos Venizelos will remain the country’s finance minister and deputy prime minister.

National benchmark indexes advanced in 15 of the 18 western European markets today. France’s CAC 40 rose 2.8 percent and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 gained 1.9 percent. Germany’s DAX rose 3.2 percent, while Italy’s FTSE MIB jumped 3.7 percent.

Telecom Italia SpA gained 5.3 percent after third-quarter net income surged 33 percent to 807 million euros, beating analysts’ estimates for 708.5 million euros.

Banks and insurers paced gains. BNP Paribas surged 5.7 percent to 32.24 euros. National Bank of Greece SA gained 2.5 percent to 2.09 euros and Alpha Bank SA added 2.9 percent to 1.08 euros.

Allianz SE, Europe’s biggest insurer, rose 5.6 percent to 76.25 euros after saying it is “ready to take a closer look” at assets such as mortgages that some troubled banks may sell. The company posted a bigger-than-estimated 84 percent drop in third-quarter profit after writing down Greek government debt and investments in financial companies.

Vivendi jumped 2.6 percent to 15.87 euros after its Universal Music Group unit agreed to buy the recorded-music assets of EMI Group from Citigroup Inc. in a deal valued at 1.2 billion pounds ($1.9 billion).

Aker Solutions ASA, Norway’s biggest oil rig maker, rallied 8.5 percent to 71.50 kroner after the company signed a contract with Lundin Petroleum AB to build a 700 million kroner ($124 million) subsea production system for the Brynhild project on the Norwegian continental shelf. The contract is valued at 700 million kroner. Lundin Petroleum gained 5.5 percent to 176.20 kroner.

Galp Energia SGPS, Portugal’s largest oil company, slumped 11 percent to 13.25 euros, its biggest decline in three months, after an agreement to sell a 30 percent stake in its Brazil unit to China’s Sinopec Group for $3.54 billion.

U.S. stocks rallied, preventing a weekly drop in benchmark indexes, as American consumer confidence topped estimates and Italy’s approval of debt- reduction plans eased concern about Europe’s debt crisis.

Stocks extended gains as the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment rose to 64.2 this month, the highest since June. The median estimate of economists surveyed called for 61.5. Earlier gains were driven by a drop in Italian bonds yields as the Senate approved budget measures in a bid to allow for a new government. In Greece, Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, will be sworn in as premier of a unity government.

Dow 12,155.50 +261.71 +2.20%, Nasdaq 2,677.01 +51.86 +1.98%, S&P 500 1,263.74 +24.04 +1.94%

All 10 groups in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose as 491 stocks climbed.

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and Citigroup Inc. (C) increased at least 3.1 percent as financial shares advanced.

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and Alcoa Inc. (AA) climbed more than 2.6 percent to pace gains among the biggest companies.

Walt Disney Co. (DIS) jumped 7 percent as the biggest theme-park operator reported a 30 percent gain in profit, beating estimates. Higher fees from pay-TV operators, advertising gains and improved results at resorts drove revenue and profit growth. Audience ratings for ESPN increased 13 percent in the quarter, according to Nielsen data provided by Barclays Capital. Disney resorts benefited from higher ticket prices and a new ship.

E*Trade Financial Corp. fell 3.3 percent to $9.17. The online brokerage’s board rejected putting the company up for sale following a strategic review spurred by Citadel LLC, the company’s biggest shareholder.

World markets: Nikkei  +0.16%, Hang Seng +0.91%, Shanghai Composite +0.06%, FTSE  +0.94%, CAC  +1.44%, DAX +1.98%.  

Crude oil: $98.20 (+0,4%).

European stocks advanced  before the Italian Senate votes on austerity measures and a new unity government takes charge in Greece.

Asian stocks plunged, with the regional index headed for its biggest drop in seven weeks, after Japan’s machinery orders dropped and China’s export growth slowed and Europe’s debt crisis has infected Italy.

Global stocks dropped this week as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis stirred political turmoil across the region, with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou both offering to step down. Italian 10-year bond yields have breached the 7 percent level at which Greece, Portugal and Ireland sought bailouts.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average slipped 2.9 percent, the most since Aug. 5. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 2.4 percent. China’s Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.8 percent as the nation’s exports rose at the slowest pace in almost two years. India’s markets were closed today.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index tumbled 5.3 percent, the most since Aug. 9.

Financial stocks were the main drag for the MSCI Asia Pacific Index amid concern political wrangling in Europe will hinder efforts to contain the debt crisis. Papandreou’s drive to put together a unity government in Greece descended into disarray as rival parties squabbled over his replacement.

HSBC Holdings Plc, the U.K.’s largest lender by market value, sank 9.1 percent in Hong Kong after profit at its investment bank declined amid political and economic uncertainty in Europe. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. sank 8.7 percent to HK$4.74 after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised $1.1 billion selling shares of ICBC, as the world’s biggest lender is known, at a discount.

Japanese industrial companies dropped after a report showed the nation’s machinery orders fell more than economists forecast in September, indicating companies may hold off capital outlays as Europe’s crisis threatens the global economic recovery.

Fanuc Corp., a maker of industrial robots slipped 4.1 percent to 12,280 yen in Tokyo. Komatsu Ltd., Asia’s biggest maker of construction equipment, dropped 5.1 percent to 1,898 yen.

Chipmakers tumbled after the price of computer-storage chips dropped to their cheapest levels on record. Elpida dropped 10 percent to 377 yen. Toshiba Corp., which receives 18 percent of sales from semiconductors, retreated 6.7 percent to 323 yen. Inotera Memories Inc., a Taiwanese DRAM-chip maker, dropped 7 percent to NT$4.12.

Raw-material producers declined after copper dropped to a two-week low, crude oil fell for a second day and rubber plunged to the lowest price in 18 months.

BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company and the Australia’s No. 1 oil producer, slipped 2.2 percent to A$37.48. Glencore International Plc, the world’s largest commodities trader, sank 3.9 percent to HK$53.60 in Hong Kong.

European stocks dropped, erasing earlier gains, as a surge in French borrowing costs added to concern the region’s debt crisis is spreading.

Stocks tumbled yesterday after Italian borrowing costs surged to euro-era records. Italy’s 10-year bond yield yesterday closed at 7.25 percent, near levels that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts.

French 10-year bonds extended their declines today, sending the yield 20 basis points higher to 3.40 percent. The difference in yield with similar-maturity benchmark German bunds increased 18 basis points to 166 basis points, the most since the euro was introduced in 1999.

National benchmark indexes declined in 15 of the 18 western European markets today. France’s CAC 40 and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 both slid 0.3 percent, while Germany’s DAX rose 0.7 percent.

Credit Agricole SA slid 2.3 percent after France’s third- largest bank reported a drop in profit. The bank reported a 65 percent drop in third-quarter profit to 258 million euros as writedowns on Greek debt crimped earnings.

Vedanta Resources Plc led a retreat in mining companies, falling 9.5 percent after the largest copper producer in India reported a 92 percent drop in first-half profit to $27.8 million on foreign-exchange losses. The shares also fell as copper tumbled in London.

Air France-KLM lost 5 percent to 4.62 euros after Europe’s biggest airline reported a 31 percent drop in quarterly profit and said it expects to post a full-year loss as fuel costs surge and a sluggish economy weighs on ticket prices.

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. paced advancing shares, climbing 5 percent to 20.97 euros after third-quarter profit surged to 312 million euros from 13 million euros and the German government agreed to buy a 7.5 percent stake in the company from Daimler AG. The maker of Mercedes-Benz cars lost 1.2 percent to 33.16 euros.

U.S. stocks advanced, rebounding from yesterday’s tumble, as jobless claims declined while a retreat in Italian bond yields and the selection of a new Greek premier tempered concern about Europe’s debt crisis. Stocks tumbled yesterday as Italian bond yields surged to a record after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he won’t resign until austerity measures are passed. Concern about Greece’s leadership also contributed to the selloff as rival parties squabbled over the name of the next premier.

Today, the appointment of Lucas Papademos, the former vice president of the European Central Bank, to lead a unity government in Greece sent stocks higher. Italian government bonds rose after the ECB was said to purchase the securities and the nation sold the maximum amount of one-year bills on offer at an auction. A statement from S&P affirming France’s rating and saying that a “technical error” was to blame for a earlier message suggesting a downgrade also lifted equities.

The report showed the number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in seven months, a sign the recovery may be encouraging companies to limit cuts in headcount. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank is concentrating “intently” on reducing unemployment and projects inflation to stay under control for the “foreseeable future.”

Dow 11,893.86 +112.92 +0.96%, Nasdaq 2,625.15 +3.50 +0.13%, S&P 500 1,239.70 +10.60 +0.86%

Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of networking equipment, climbed 5.7 percent, the most in the Dow, as profit and sales beat estimates. Chief Executive Officer John Chambers is eliminating jobs, scaling back operating expenses and revamping a management structure that slowed decision making. The company also is refocusing on its main products: switches and routers, which ferry data across networks.

The second-biggest U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co. jumped 3.5 percent after raising its dividend for the first time since 2004 and emphasized drug discovery in a meeting with analysts today.

Apple Inc. slumped 2.6 percent amid concern that the company may ship fewer units of its iPad tablet this year due to supply constraints.

Resistance 3: $1.6015 (50.0% FIBO $1.5900-$1.6130)

Resistance 2: $1.5985 (Nov 10 high, 38.2% FIBO $1.5900-$1.6130)

Resistance 1: $1.545 (session high)

The current price: $1.5928

Support 1 : $1.5905 (session low)

Support 2 : $1.5870 (Nov 10 low)

Support 3 : $1.5840 (Sep 9 low)

Comments: the pair is corrected after falling on Nov 9. In focus resistance $1.5945.