Asian stocks and indices were mixed this trading m=morning with more and more mixed messages coming from Trump on trade war with China and his intentions to bring more American businesses back home. European performance is really similar to Asian as well.
Topix went up 0.2 percent.
Hang Seng declined 1.2 percent.
Shanghai Composite lost 0.8 percent.
MSCI Asia Pacific declined 0.6 percent.
S&P 500 futures added 0.1 percent.
Stoxx Europe 600 went up 0.1 percent
DAX advanced by less than 0.05 percent.
MSCI Emerging Market sank 1 percent.
Equities are waking up from the weekend’s slumber and are mostly losing due to growing greenback.
Dollar added 0.1 percent against the basket of six major currencies.
Euro lost 0.1 percent - $1.154.
Pound declined 0.1 percent - $1.2908.
Gaining oil is trying to pick commodities market up and there is mixed success in it for the segment of the market.
Barrel of WTI added 0.9 percent - $68.36.
Brent advanced 1.08 percent - $77.66 per barrel.
Natural gas lost 0.29 percent - $2.77 per MMBtu.
Heating oil climbed 0.84 percent - $223.68.
Gold is still at $1.200.40 per ounce point.
Silver added 0.46 percent - $14.24 per ounce.
Platinum advanced 0.04 percent - $782.61.