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Morning!

In the US last night, the Dow finished up 389.17 at 24,033.36 the Nasdaq up 71.16 at 6,941.28 and the S&P 500 up 32.57 at 2,614.45.

In Asia, the Nikkei was recently up 20.23 points at 21,325.10 - the Hang Seng down 40.34 at 30,139.76 - crude oil traded at $63.51 a barrel and Brent at $68.12.

Gold settled at $1,332.80 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper.

The Papers

U.S. escalates China trade showdown with tariffs on $50 billion in imports

Good morning!

Morning all.

Markets quiet due to school holidays but do I detect they may be in the mood to move up?

Dow futures currently down 514 points - tin hat time again this afternoon.

Dow

Hard to say what this afternoon will bring.

FTSE seems to have largely decoupled though. Or at least beta has gone very low.