This morning proved to be very kind towards Asian segment of the market as one can clearly see the gains in the region even though trade war talks are as strong as ever over the region. Europe is all submerged into Brexit talks, but the markets are doing pretty good, given that there are talks of no-deal Brexit being possible.

Shanghai Composite gained 1.9 percent.

Topix went up 0.9 percent.

Hang Seng added 1.3 percent.

S&P 500 futures went up 0.1 percent.

Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.3 percent.

S&P 500 futures lost 0.05 percent.

MSCI All-Country World went up 0.3 percent.

FTSE 100 gained 1 percent.

Greenback didn’t perform all that well this week and as the end neared we can see that it wants to gain some of the lost power back by pressing on euro and pound.

Dollar grew 0.2 percent which is the biggest gain of the week for the greenback against the basket of six major currencies. This morning dollar was losing and weekly losses reached 1 percent.

Euro lost 0.1 percent - $1.1763.

Pound declined 0.8 percent - $1.3156.

Commodities have mixed performance with most of attention focused on oil output and OPEC meeting that is supposed to take place this weekend.

WTI oil gained 0.64 percent - $70.77 per barrel.

Brent is struggling to go higher than $0.97 percent - $79.46 per barrel.

Natural gas extends yesterday’s losses with 0.81 percent decline - $2.95 per MMBtu.

Heating oil rose 0.96 percent - $224.93.

Gold is down 0.61 percent - $1203.90.

Silver grew 0.49 percent - $14.38.

Platinum is down 0.45 percent - $831.71.