The job market news is not positive and that is the main reason why news media is not highlighting the recent 90,000 layoffs in US alone. This is a 44% increase from the first quarter of the year 2010 but the news is not welcomed by many as more job cuts are expected in the third and fourth quarter. A rise is seen when some private companies added 20,000 jobs but that is not enough for the downward job market trend.

It is analyzed that unemployment rate is 6% and job market being very strong but the question is for how long will the unemployment be faced by the people as the economy is moving downwards. Finance sector is the major sector which faced job cuts this year. In UK alone 8,000 job cuts has been witnessed and in US the job cut totals 19,000 in financial sector only. Financial sector is known to be the most critical sector of economy and any dramatic change in this sector indicates clear signs of danger. The biggest problem is that the governments are not taking this matter seriously and the news media is controlled by the government which helps in playing the same goal “not to create unemployment hype”. US job market is huge and those laid off can be switching jobs around other states but UK job market is different and the joblessness in UK is severe. The foreign students studying in Britain are jobless because the economy is a vacuum tube. learn more about UK Job Market

Dow have suddenly fallen below 10,000 points and is currently at -9880. Many analysts had forecast that the market would rise after a short fall but due to Euro downfall and North-South Korean crises as reported by the news media, the U.S. Stock Market is in doldrums. The investors have dumped the stocks as tensions gripped the world market. Nearly all investors are concerned about the fall of Euro which has fallen steeply, click to read about Euro News, Analysis and Forecast.

Nasdaq and S&P are sharing the agony as they have also witnessed downfall with the fall of Dow. NASDAQ being a technology market should had an upward trend but as the crises are serious, even the technology market is not safe for investments. The gold market has also fallen but investors are pretty sure that this would not be the recession of US stock market again. The downfall is still known to be for a short period and may not last long as analysts observed. The Oil prices have also witnessed a change of 3% in negativity. The U.S. stock market would witness a downfall of nearly 4% in 3 days period and would not recover soon as expected by the investors. Since Gold Investments are considered to be safer, the falling price of gold doesn’t attract investors because the economy is stable and outlook is positive.

US stock markets have raised today and is said to incline for the next three days. The stock market forecasts reveal that due to falling price of gold and Greece crises under control, the stock markets rose slightly but investors are still unclear as China’s tighten monetary policy is slowing down the growth in that country.

A 10% decline of Dows’ made traders believe that correction is the right word but many analysts said that a pullback was overdue and Europe’s future is just a non-issue. The traders expressed situations in the financial markets as troubled and unstable. The US corporate bonds have fallen straight and the prices of oil, copper and gold dropped. Gold forecasts have resulted in negative whereas gold was often seen as a safe-haven asset, dropped. Gold acts as a hedge against inflation and its price fall indicates that investors are less worried about growth of precious metal. The bad news is that the feds will be raising interest rates at the end of this year which has made investors worried about future predictions of stock market.

Gold and oil prices have sharply declined in the past 5 days due to issues unclear to investors. It is mainly due to US stock market downfall and euro zone crises which have made the precious metal and gasoline prices to fall.

Gold has witnessed +4.86% change which was a good sign. Now onwards, gold prices shall decline for the next 10 days or so.

Oil has witnessed -13.31% change which still continues to decline till the month of June.

The Gold and Oil markets have been hit by US Stock market as major shares are on the doldrums. It is expected that the market will be recovered soon.

The American stock market is on the doldrums as heavy losses have been witnessed by the investors. Dow Jones have fallen more than 1000 points which is incredibly low after the 2007 recession. The market doesn’t seem to recover till the end of the month of May but mid of June would be a recovery period for NYSE. NASDAQ (IXIC) and S&P (GSCP) follow the downward trend of NYSE. Reuters name the fall of stock market as “correction” but this is not what market correction is. It is only because of Euro-Zone’s debt crises which could easily put the global economic crises into jeopardy.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has declined to almost 9% this month which is a bad indicator. Nasdaq and S&P have fallen 2.71% and 3.6% respectively which is not healthy for investors. On the other hand, UK stock market has shown some recovery in the past few days. The forecast for UK stock market is very important as it plays an important part in world economies. Signs of recovery in UK market shows that the US stock market will recover soon in the month of June. “This is the right time to by US stocks as a large market volume displacement has occurred which will recover soon profiting the investors” said Chris Jason, board member of Fed. The predictions are clear, as the market is falling and investors confused, it is time to invest and selling your shares is not a intellectual move to make.

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The month of May 2010 is tremendous for gold investors as gold price tends to rise from here now on to new extents. Since forex is on the doldrums and the sadness is not likely to recover in the near future, the gold will rise extensively as investors are likely to switch back to gold. The gold trade world-wide has increased because of Indian buyers. The major investment is not gold jewelry anymore, but is now treated as the only solid asset required by middle-class investors as well as foreign central banks.

After the recovery of stock markets around the globe, the investment scenarios has boosted up due to friendly market conditions and attractive investment opportunities. Gold market has proved itself as one of the best investment options available to the investors. Those people who generally invest in stock market lose the most because the stock market forecasts and media reports are based on assumptions and not real-time statistics. This causes a lot of problems for the small scale investors who not knowingly invests blindly in one place. A better option now is to start selling forex in your possession and wait for 2 months max before you can purchase euros, pounds or dollars again. The best way is to purchase forex online and invest in the market. On the other hand, stock market is doing tremendously well.

Gold investments are always there to empower your asset value. Your shares can fall, your forex may devalue, but the gold price remains stable throughout times which makes it the best investment option for the upcoming months. The gold rate is likely to exceed from $1169 to $1220 in the next two months.

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By Daniel Riches (Financiere Correspondent)

Dollar fell today against Yen due to extreme remarks from the Bank of Japs’ governor about their country’s price weakening speculations. They said that the state bank will ease monetary policy by the end of this month.

This, not only effected dollar rates in Japan but signaled the Asian economy about the low spectrum of dollar downfall. The greenback is likely to fall until some serious measures are taken by the U.S. Govt. On the other hand, U.S. stock market gained as dollar weakened allowing investors to grow hopes and investments. The dollar declined to 93.15 yen from 93.21. The dollar dropped against the Swiss franc nearly one cent to 1.0663 from 1.0739 francs a day ago. The maturity came after guesswork increased about a looming EU verdict to execute a rescue package for Greece. The dollar also appears to be weaker when compared to the Canadian and the Australian dollars.

There is evidently more pressure to sell dollars from corporate clients. Financiere analysts forecasts that if Retail Sales post a strong gain, they could stoke rumor that the Fed will raise rates sooner rather than later and boost the U.S. Dollar.

Gold forecast for the month of April 2010 is slightly bearish than the previous month as dollar has gained some stability in the world market (for details “dollar rises against euro”) but this stability of dollar is temporary as U.S. economy has yet to come out of recession clouds. The yellow metal had made major strides during the recession period due to panic buying by investors.

Since the recovery of shares, forex and investment market is expected, investors are likely to pull out their money from gold investments and put it in equity and other investment options. This strategy of investors may impact the gold prices and the yellow metals may not make big strides in the coming months probably the month of April and May as predicted by our financial analysts. In fact, gold is a lover of tragedies and whenever there is an adversity gold prices gain because people tend to buy gold during crisis times.

A long term investment in gold is always feasible because gold prices tend to incline against paperback economies. Investors should not put all their eggs in one basket, instead, they should try to keep some investments in gold and invest other in equity and forex which will more likely return 14% to 16% profit. The monthly gold forecast and gold outlook are universal.

The U.S. dollar rose on Saturday against Euro, the future plunging currency. Our financial advisory division forecasted euro plunge in near future and warned investors to avoid further investments in euro, at least for six to eight months. The dollar rose to 0.9 percent marking its current position to $1.340. The dollar is now looked upon as safety currency because euro’s outlook is blurred, unclear and uncertain. It is very common amongst investors that when they become uncertain about investments, they try to invest in major currency which is now U.S. dollar after euro’s downfall.

The yen also fell against dollar and 15 other most traded currencies as Japanese consumer price (CPI) plunged this week forcing its central bank to raise interest rates. Similarly, the Canadian and Australian dollars also fell against the greenback.

U.S. payrolls added 190,000 jobs in March, increasing the likelihood the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the near future. This will give a stronger position to the dollar but only for a short-term. For long term investments, investors should move ahead towards “Better investment than U.S. dollar” which is gold.

But The U.S. dollar is the most regularly used currency in international market up till this day. The fact that the U.S. is the world’s largest trading nation is only part of the reason. The value of international market in dollars is much larger than the total business conducted by the U.S. and countries with currencies linked to the greenback. This is predominantly true in Asia, where many countries bill more than 80% of their exports in dollars.

India is the world’s largest gold-consuming nation. The share of gold in international market is 1.5X that of the U.S. although its GDP is only one-twentieth the size of the U.S. GDP. With its soaring rate of gold consumption, India accounts for 18% of the annual worldwide gold demand, while its share of global GDP on nominal dollar GDP is only 1.6%.

India is experiencing an 80% growth in gold investment following a relaxed trade and market limitations. The gold increased 242 per cent between March 1999 and March 2010 which is equivalent of an average annual return of 13.1 per cent and it also outpaced inflation which has increased by 30 per cent during the decade or by an average 2.7 per cent a year. Monetary authorities in India are not tremendously positive about the outlook of U.S. dollar thus their hedge against Dollar will help to set the stage for an alternative reserve currency/asset, an offer broadcasted by countries like China, France and Russia.

Despite the slump in the housing market in the past two years, property has produced the second highest return after Gold keeping PSU and BSE on third & forth respectively.