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This week we are seeing the shadow of a new recession. Although the GDP growth in the US is being higher than the expected, today, the Dow had a day in red and felt by 0.31% to 9712 points. But there Isn’t motive to alarm, this week we had many macroeconomic news.

We must be optimistic, according to the Inflation record in the European Union of the 16 , the Eurozone inflation felt more than expected by a 0.3 per cent year on year in September. This means that the ECB will not have to raise interests in order to contain the inflation, and the European economy will continue be boosted at least the whole 2010.

In despite of these good news, there are some black clouds in the skyline. The PMI of Chicago has been unexpectedly low this month, 46.1 points versus the 50 points of August. This means that central United States are destroying economic activity, and if we sum that this month the market lost 254.000 jobs instead of the expected 210.000, it’s not difficult to understand why many people is opting for sell their risky assets.

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The president of the Federal Reserve(Fed),Ben Bernanke,pointed last Tuesday that from a technical point of view, the recession in USA is ”provably over”.However, has also pointed that the US recovery will be ”relatively slow in the beginning and unemployment will only decrease gradually”.

”I’ve seen some agreement in the forecasts of recovery from the community of analysts.But the general opinion of the most of us is that the economic growth in 2010 will be moderate”.added.

Bernanke also asked to put ”urgent” actions to overlook the ‘’structural” weaknesses is holding nowadays the financial system.

”We must urgently approach the structural weaknesses of the financial system, particularly in the regulatory frame, to ensure we do not suffer again the enormous costs of the lasts years
The president Obama has also the same opinion about the necessity of ”urgent” measures in the financial system to prevent a new crisis of the current to happen.”

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