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Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow rose 16 points to 16,443, the Nasdaq rose 2 points to
4,355 and the S&P 500 was unchanged at 1,920.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 24.52 points at 15,135.27 and the Hang Seng
down 125.23 points at 24,458.90.

WTI crude oil traded at $96.92 a barrel and Brent at $104.59.

Gold settled at $1,306.70 an ounce.

Live long and prosper!

Morning skinny. lol

:-)

German Industrial Production m/m 0.3% 1.4% -1.7%

Morning skinny.

Opening Market Overview

Russia escalates economic battle with U.S., EU with food import ban

Spanish 10 year Bond auction - (%|cover) 2.69|2.1 previous 2.09|2.3

GBP Asset Purchase Facility 375B 375B 375B

GBP Official Bank Rate 0.50% 0.50% 0.50%

Midday Report

Re Bank Rate

Interesting reading!

EUR Minimum Bid Rate 0.15% 0.15% 0.15%

USD Unemployment Claims 289K 305K 302K

CAD Building Permits m/m 13.5% -1.8% 13.8%

CAD Ivey PMI 54.1 54.1 46.9

Market Closing Overview