Good morning traders!

In the US last night, the Dow fell 129 points to 15,844, the Nasdaq lost 56 points at
4,004 and the S&P500 shed 21 points at 1,782.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 179 points at 15,335 and the Hang Seng
off 60 points at 23,278.

WTI crude oil traded at $97.44 a barrel and Brent crude at $109.70.

Gold settled at $1,258 an ounce.

Good hunting!

G.

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Midday Market Overview

CAD NHPI m/m 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%

CAD Capacity Utilization Rate 81.7% 81.1% 80.6%

USD Core Retail Sales m/m 0.4% 0.2% 0.2%

USD Retail Sales m/m 0.7% 0.6% 0.4%

USD Unemployment Claims 368K 321K 298K

USD Import Prices m/m -0.6% -0.7% -0.7%

Afternoon all.

USD Business Inventories m/m 0.7% 0.4% 0.6%

End-of-day Market Overview