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Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow rose 26 points to 18,299 the Nasdaq rose 30 points to 5,078 and the S&P 500 rose 6 points at 2,129.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 138.78 points at 20,029.05 and the Hang Seng up 115.62 points at 27,706.87.

WTI crude oil traded at $59.43 a barrel and Brent at $66.27.

Gold settled at $1,2275.80 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

Athens sees EU deal soon, Greeks' approval of government stance dwindles

Opening Market Summary

GBP CPI y/y -0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

GBP PPI Input m/m 0.4% 0.8% 0.4%

GBP RPI y/y 0.9% 0.9% 0.9%

GBP Core CPI y/y 0.8% 1.0% 1.0%

GBP HPI y/y 9.6% 7.7% 7.4%

GBP PPI Output m/m 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%

Dean Potter - obituary

EUR German ZEW Economic Sentiment 41.9 48.8 53.3

EUR Final CPI y/y 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

EUR ZEW Economic Sentiment 61.2 62.4 64.8

EUR Final Core CPI y/y 0.6% 0.6% 0.6%

UK inflation negative for first time since 1960, pulled down by early Easter

Deflation: UK and EU countries comparison

China stocks jump the most in four months on reform plan

US Futures point to fresh record highs

Midday Report

USD Building Permits 1.14M 1.06M 1.04M

USD Housing Starts 1.14M 1.02M 0.94M

Sounds like a team of old(er) lags!

Hatton Garden raid: Seven men arrested

I would have thought they would have skedaddle out of the country by now!

A nice little tax haven somewhere!

Maybe over confident about not being caught!

Closing Market Summary