Hello traders!

Wall Street's bears got the upper hand tonight....

The Dow fell 120.54 points to 10,924.74 with the Nasdaq Composite off 33.42 points at 2,100.25 and the S&P500 down 11.36 points at 1,239.20.

See you in the morning with the latest....

G.

hmm i wonder the impact on the FTSE............................

On an ex div day, any down side will be exagerated.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning down 74.53 points at 15,700.17, while the Nikkei was recently down 262.3 points at 14,909.51.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, was at $72.09 a barrel, up 17 cents from $71.92 in US trade overnight.

A fair list of ex-dividends to be aware of today...

Happy trading!

G.

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