Todays’ performance of Asian stocks and indices is quite satisfactory as new rumors about Chinese-American talks emerge in the market. Even though this week brought the biggest and longest decline for the Asian segment of the market in 16 years todays’ recovery is very satisfactory. European segment was steady
Hang Seng gained 1.6 percent.
Topix added 1.1 percent.
Kospi climbed 0.2 percent.
S&P 500 futures lost 0.05 percent.
MSCI Asia Pacific gained 0.7 percent
Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.05 percent.
MSCI Emerging Market went up 0.9 percent.
Currencies have no sudden moves in their own segment of the market.
Dollar rose less than 0.05 percent against the six major counterparts.
Euro went up 0.05 percent - $1.1627 which is the strongest point in a week.
Lira lost 0.3 percent – 6.3663 lira per dollar.
Commodities are not as sunny as they were yesterday with oil falling right before the crude sounld reach the milestone point.
WTI lost 0.67 percent - $69.90
Brent declined 0.25 percent - $79.54 per barrel.
MMBtu of natural gas added 0.04 percent - $2.83.
Heating oil is still at $225.78 per gallon price.
Gold declined 0.05 percent - $1.210.30 per ounce.
Ounce of silver lost 0.13 percent - $14.28.
Copper costs 270.05 per pound after 0.92 percent gain.
Platinum increased 0.66 percent - $805.07.