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Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow lost 162 points to 17,349 the Nasdaq lost 40 points to 5,019 and the S&P 500 lost 17 points at 2,080.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 116.17 points at 20,108.08 and the Hang Seng down 371.56 points at 22,796.79.

WTI crude oil traded at $40.80 a barrel and Brent at $47.16.

Gold settled at $1128.10 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

Asian shares slide; dollar loses edge on Fed minutes

A technical bounce or 8 straight falls!

The last time we had 8 straight falls looks to have been 23/11/2011 - in fact it became 9 straight falls on the 24th!

I vote for an up day but oil is bothering me. Oil must be due a bounce soon but WTI may have to drop below $40 first

Opening Market Summary

England win the toss at the Oval and will bowl first.

Yuan drops after IMF move

U.S. stock futures point to third day in the red

Ashes: England v Australia LIVE

GBP CBI Industrial Order Expectations -1 -10 -10

I posted this on Tuesday. This guy seems to have got his sums about right:

Market timer Tom McClellan sees stocks set up for ‘ugly decline’ as early as Thursday

Midday Report

Yuan bearish bets at five-year high; Asia FX outlook worsens: Reuters poll

USD Existing Home Sales 5.59M 5.45M 5.49M

USD Philly Fed Manufacturing Index 8.3 6.9 5.7

USD CB Leading Index m/m -0.2% 0.2% 0.6%

Greece crisis: PM Tsipras 'to hold September election'

Closing Market Summary

Eighth consecutive down day for the FTSE - it did close down on 11 consecutive days on 27th January 2003.

Skinny,

You do cheer me up!

Eight days is enough for me. I'm 100% invested now and would very much like to see FTSE rise for nine consecutive days next.

A bit of a relief rally on oil would be most appreciated although I'm not sure where that's going to come from in the short term. Of course it always appears when you least expect it ;-)