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FTSE / DOW YTD

Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow rose 212 points to 17,885 the Nasdaq rose 48 points to 4,765 and the S&P 500 rose 21 points at 2,063.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 143.88 points at 17,648.50 and the Hang Seng down 56.12 points at 24,709.37.

WTI crude oil traded at $50.48 a barrel and Brent at $56.57.

Gold settled at $1,262.00 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

Quiz of the week's news

3/7.

CHF Retail Sales y/y 2.2% 0.4% -1.2%

0/7... All time low alert!

Failing that, you can always claim you had better things to do than swot up on current affairs. :)

1/7

Opening Market Summary

GBP Trade Balance -10.2B -9.0B -8.8B

US Futures

Woodford Patient Capital Trust eyes 10% returns.

Midday Report

CAD Building Permits m/m 7.7% 4.8% -13.8%

CAD Employment Change 35.4K 4.7K -4.3K

CAD Unemployment Rate 6.6% 6.7% 6.6%

USD Non-Farm Employment Change 257K 236K 252K

USD Unemployment Rate 5.7% 5.6% 5.6%

USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m 0.5% 0.3% -0.2%

New 2015 high for the FTSE and DOW looking at 18K again.

Closing Market Summary