Asian stocks are practically still this trading morning with concerns about how stable the emerging markets really are raising but once again. USA are threatening to escalate the tensions between them and China which caused even more panic in the markets. European indices are gladly growing although tensions between them and US are also only growing.
Topix lost 0.2 percent.
Kospi went up 0.2 percent.
Hang Seng didn’t change much.
S&P 500 futures added 0.3 percent.
Stoxx Europe 600 went up 0.2 percent.
MSCI all-Country World lost less than 0.05 percent.
MSCI Emerging Markets added 0.1 percent.
Equities are mostly down because of the growing dollar that is pushing all of its counterparts dowm even though there are some inner problem for each of them.
Greenback added 0.3 percent against the basket of six major currencies and went to the highest point in a two weeks.
Euro lost 0.4 percent - $1.1578.
Yen lost 0.3 percent – 111.36 per dollar.
Lira lost 0.3 percent – 6.6575 which is the lowest point in three weeks.
Commodities are mixed with losses marking precious metals’ sector of the market.
WTI oil adds 1.36 percent - $70.75 per ounce.
Brent advanced 0.83 percent - $78.80 per ounce.
Natural gas lost 0.89 percent - $2.86 per MMBtu.
Heating oil increased 2.3 percent - $229.48 per gallon.
Gold lost 0.544 percent - $1.200.2 per ounce.
Silver declined 1.59 percent - $14.33,
Platinum lost 1.24 percent - $779.02 per ounce.