INVESTORS AWAIT FED RATE SETTING MEETING SINCE THE CHINESE STOCK EXCHANGE CRASH

USPA NEWS - Investors have the spirit to the Fed meeting next week, the outcome seems highly uncertain. The Fed will raise its rates, at the risk of creating new market turbulence or she will wait a little longer? The answer is perhaps to be found in the indicators to be published this afternoon (Paris Time).

U.S. government debt prices extended gains Friday, with U.S. stocks expected to open weaker and investors cautious about next week's meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve and wary of any attempts by the market to rally. The Fed will meet on September 16 and 17, with the timing of the U.S. central bank's first rate hike in nine years a continued source of debate in the markets. FRENCH CAC 40 STOCK INDEX IS STILL IN DOWNTREND------------------------------- The CAC 40 resumes its downtrend Friday after a decline of 1.5%. Chinese statistics continue to blow hot and cold on the markets, with ever marked volatility. The Paris index is nevertheless well anchored in its range of 4500-4700 points he has not left since August 26. (According to easy bourse).

CHINA ANNOUNCES REFORMS TO ACCELERATE THE GROWTH IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS------------- Faced with stronger than expected slowdown in growth, Beijing announced a series of 'reforms' welcomed by the markets: accelerated works programs, greater use of public-private partnerships and harmonisation of the management of regional debts. These announcements helped the Shanghai Stock Exchange to resume 1.3% on the week, despite a 1.4% drop on Friday. In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has also strengthened its stimulus policy promising to lower taxes on corporations at least 3.3 percentage points from the next financial year that starts in April 2016. The Nikkei soared 7.7% Wednesday, its biggest gain since 2008, but soon fell blown. The Japanese index, the most liquid in Asia, proves as one of the most volatile in the current period.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The steps following the upset Fellow Chinese mini crash of this summer, are still paying the price of this destabilisation that has been impacting both finance and growth. Indeed the balance of the average growth of the world can only be based on the growth of a minority of countries that would suffer the rest the world when it comes to shake financial markets. Addiction interconnected partnerships, offshoring and other economic and industrial alliances necessarily affect stock markets, with all that this implies. There must be a reaching point of balance, to get more stability in the worldwide equilibrium, considering the actual context of conflicts, migrant crisis in Europe, and the climat change bad effects on the planet.Source: Easybourse, AFP, CNN