This marks my 10th anniversary as custodian of the Traders Thread and I am passing
the reins to skinny who has kindly assented to continue the tradition.

Thank you all for your company and support over the years.

Best wishes,

G.

Good morning traders!

In the US last night, the Dow fell 32 points to 16,880, the Nasdaq rose 20 points to
4,463 and the S&P 500 was flat at 1,970.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 38 points at 15,684 and the Hang Seng off
31 points at 24,701.

WTI crude oil traded at $100.27 a barrel and Brent at $106.51.

Gold settled at $1,294 an ounce.

Good hunting!

G.

Many thanks for your work over the years Greystone.

Enjoy the lay in tomorrow! :-)

Opening Market Overview

Cheers skinny. Good luck with the thread...

German Unemployment Change -12K -5K 7K

Italian Monthly Unemployment Rate 12.3% 12.6% 12.6%

EUR CPI Flash Estimate y/y 0.4% 0.5% 0.5%

EUR Core CPI Flash Estimate y/y 0.8% 0.8% 0.8%

EUR Unemployment Rate 11.5% 11.6% 11.6%

EUR Italian Prelim CPI m/m -0.1% 0.1% 0.1%

Midday Report

World Markets reaction to Fed.

CAD GDP m/m 0.4% 0.3% 0.1%

USD Unemployment Claims 302K 303K 284K

USD Employment Cost Index q/q 0.7% 0.5% 0.3%

Hope you'll enjoy a happy, healthy retirement Alan, and thanks for your years on the thread. (The South West group is still meeting)