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Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow fell 28 points to 17,635 the Nasdaq lost 10 points to 4,850 and the S&P 500 lost 4 points at 2,040.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 281.19 points at 19,004.71 and the Hang Seng up 117.56 points at 23,835.53.

WTI crude oil traded at $48.17 a barrel and Brent at $57.54.

Gold settled at $1150.70 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

Federal Reserve rejects 2 banks’ capital plans in annual ‘stress tests’

Maybe interesting today?

Another one to watch today if UKX reflects Asia. Having hit a three month high back end of Febuary, retraced and bounced of 50DMA.

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Opening Market Summary

A bit late but :-

GBP Trade Balance -8.4B -9.7B -9.9B

US Futures

Midday Report

CAD NHPI m/m -0.1% 0.2% 0.1%

CAD Capacity Utilization Rate 83.6% 83.7% 83.4%

USD Core Retail Sales m/m -0.1% 0.6% -0.9%

USD Retail Sales m/m -0.6% 0.3% -0.8%

USD Unemployment Claims 289K 306K 320K

USD Import Prices m/m 0.4% 0.2% -2.8%

Us just jumped 80 points?

Carney pushes back UK rate hike expectations

US stocks rising

Closing Market Summary