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Skinny has flagged up why it might of interest to keep an eye on some of the Insurers this week DYOR.

Morning!


In the US on Friday, the Dow lost 18 points to 17,635, the Nasdaq rose 9 points to 4,689 and the S&P 500 gained 1 point at 2,040.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 517.03 points at 16,973.80 and the Hang Seng down 188.23 points at 23,899.15.

WTI crude oil traded at $75.82 a barrel and Brent at $77.74.

Gold settled at $1,185.00 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

Band aid 2014

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Opening Market Summary

Japan slips into surprise recession, paves way for tax delay, snap poll

S/Watch seems back to normal now Ian, what about you others?

Skinny Insurers don't seem affected so far do they.

Stan - no - perhaps their houses are in order (ahem).

Maybe, but notice that a few have had quite a run upwards over the 6 weeks or so looking at their charts.

Of the three mentioned, only ADM is under performing the market this morning - RSA is flirting with blue!

US Futures

Midday Report

Complaints to FCA

CAD Foreign Securities Purchases 4.37B 11.32B 10.28B

USD Empire State Manufacturing Index 10.2 12.1 6.2

Draghi speaks at 2pm.

USD Capacity Utilization Rate 78.9% 79.3% 79.3%

USD Industrial Production m/m -0.1% 0.2% 1.0%

Closing Market Summary