Good morning traders!

In the US last night, the Dow rose 92 points to 16,133, the Nasdaq added 30 points
at 4,268 and the S&P 500 gained 11 points at 1,840.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 427 points at 14,876 and the Hang Seng
ahead 83 points at 22,477.

WTI crude oil traded at $102.92 a barrel and Brent crude at 110.30.

Gold settled at $1,317 an ounce.

Happy Friday!

G.

Intraday high of May 22nd last year was 6875.62.

Intraday high of this year Jan 21st was 6867.42.

All time high on 30th Dec 1999 was 6950.60.

Opening Market Overview

GBP Retail Sales m/m -1.5% -0.9% 2.6%

GBP Public Sector Net Borrowing -6.4B -9.3B 10.4B

I would imagine that HSBA,VOD,BP.BATS,GSK & RDSB are responsible for a large percentage of today's rise.

Gold ticking up again.

That's good, Skinny.

Support level currently is supposed to be 1306.25, I think.

CAD Core CPI m/m 0.2% 0.1% -0.4%

CAD Core Retail Sales m/m -1.4% 0.2% 0.4%

CAD CPI m/m 0.3% 0.1% -0.2%

CAD Retail Sales m/m -1.8% -0.5% 0.6%

USD Existing Home Sales 4.62M 4.73M 4.87M