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FTSE / DOW

Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow lost 8 points to 17,070, the Nasdaq lost 11 points to 4,562 and the S&P 500 lost 3 points at 1,998.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 24.72 points at 15,651.46 and the Hang Seng down 66.65 points at 25,231.27.

WTI crude oil traded at $94.45 a barrel and Brent at $101.83.

Gold settled at $1,265.10 an ounce.

Live long and prosper!

Quiz of the week's news

3 / 7 for me.

German Industrial Production m/m 1.9% 0.5% 0.4%

Morning Market Summary

DOW / FTSE / DAX

2/7 for me this week , i'm improving .

Midday Report

CAD Employment Change -11.0K 10.3K 41.7K

CAD Unemployment Rate 7.0% 7.0% 7.0%

CAD Labor Productivity q/q 1.8% 0.1% -0.1%

USD Non-Farm Employment Change 142K 226K 209K

USD Unemployment Rate 6.1% 6.1% 6.2%

USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%

CAD Ivey PMI 50.9 55.7 54.1

Investors Intelligence: 13% Bears, lowest since ’87 Crash -

Is that good or bad I wonder!

Lowest since 87 CRASH LOL!! Nothing to worry about then! :0)

Closing Market Summary

Bad skinny for bulls.

Its like RSI being well overbought.

In fact well well well overbought.

Although I must admit my local landlord hasnt asked me what stocks to buy and neither as my taxi driver, so maybe its different this time.

ps, Cynic as mind. LOL.

Well I'm short the FTSE most days - I closed this morning and have just reopened @6870.

A report on The Fool looking for FTSE 100 9,000 plus, I kid you not.

Best I go to the pub then!

FTSE short closed @6,841.8 +28.2.