Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning down 74.53 points at 15,700.17, while the Nikkei was recently down 262.3 points at 14,909.51.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, was at $72.09 a barrel, up 17 cents from $71.92 in US trade overnight.

A fair list of ex-dividends to be aware of today...

Happy trading!

G.

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