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FTSE / DOW

Good morning traders!

In the US at night, the Dow fell 27 points to 17,087, the Nasdaq rose 18 points to
4,474 and the S&P 500 added 3 points at 1,987.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 63 points at 15,266 and the Hang Seng
up 93 points at 24,065.

WTI crude oil traded at $103.12 a barrel and Brent at $108.03.

Gold settled at $1,304 an ounce.

Good hunting!

G.

German Flash Manufacturing PMI 52.9 52.2 52.0

German Flash Services PMI 56.6 54.7 54.6

Opening Market Overview

EUR Flash Manufacturing PMI 51.9 52.0 51.8

EUR Flash Services PMI 54.4 52.7 52.8

GBP Retail Sales m/m 0.1% 0.2% -0.5%

Midday Report

USD Unemployment Claims 284K 310K 302K

USD Flash Manufacturing PMI 56.3 57.5 57.3

Flash? They don't still sell that do they?

Its all to do with the diffusion index or something like that, so I guess that's rediffusion.

USD New Home Sales 406K 485K 504K