Spotlight on Oil and Prices as the market awaits Fed’s announcement

US stocks had relatively low volatility on Monday as the market awaited the Fed’s announcement on

Wednesday. FOMC is expected to announce its quantitative easing program.

Twitter stocks drop despite earnings surpassing Estimates

Twitter stocks take a plunge in after-hours trading despite having met analysts’ quarterly earnings

expectations on Monday.

GOLD ($1,229.30/oz t, +0.09%): Gold prices edged lower on Monday, amid expectations the Federal

Reserve will end its bond-buying program later this week. More >>

OIL (WTI: $81.00/bl, -0.04%; BRENT: $85.83/bl, -0.05%): Oil prices dropped on Monday after U.S. financial

institution Goldman Sachs cut its 2015 price forecast. More >>

NATURAL GAS ($3,637/MmBtu, -0.90%): U.S. natural gas futures fell to an 11-month low on Monday, as

investors bet that mild weather will dampen early-winter demand for heating fuel. More >>

DAILY BRIEFS

Europe stocks fall as banks see profit-taking after ECB’s tests

European stocks fell on Monday as investors booked recent gains after the European Central Bank review

of the region's banks and a German business sentiment index dropped to its lowest in almost two years.

German business confidence drops for 6th month

Business confidence in Germany, one of the largest economy in Europe, has dropped for a sixth

consecutive month as concerns over the turmoil in Ukraine and elsewhere continue to take their toll.

PSI-20 fell almost 1% in today’s session

PSI-20 declined almost 1% in today’s session penalized by major losses on BCP and PT. BPI and Galp

bucked the downward trend. The Portuguese Index followed the trend of other European Indexes.

BCP´s shares sink almost 4%

The results of the stress test applied by ECB confirmed the lead in the most adverse scenario, penalizing

the bank’s shares which dropped almost 4% to €0.09.

27THOCTOBER 2014

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PSI20: -0.86% DAX30: -0.95% FTSE100: -0.40% S&P500: -0.15% NIKKEI225: +0.63%

Asian markets grow, euro rises after ECB bank tests

Asian equities are mostly trading higher, after a major test of the health of European banks went some

way towards calming fears over the fragility of the region's economy.

NQ Mobile jumps after filing 2013 Report

NQ Mobile Inc. (NQ), the Chinese mobile-security service provider that short-seller Carson Block has

accused of overstating revenue, rose to a four-month high after it filed its twice-delayed 2013 annual

report.