Markets are mostly stable today with no extreme movements in Asia or in Europe. Although equities suffer a little bit, stock market are calm, awaiting federal government meeting of the United States that is hoped to shed some light onto the tariffs situation.

Topix lost 0.5 percent.

Hang Seng gained 1.6 percent.

Shanghai Composite advanced 1.3 percent.

Nikkei Stock Average is up 0.28 percent.

MSCI Asia Pacific went up by less than 0.05 percent.

Stoxx Europe 600 added 0.1 percent.

S&P 500 futures rose 0.1 percent.

MSCI Emerging Market added 0.3 percent.

Dollar experienced the biggest gain in a week with other currencies being on the low-key. Euro and pound are falling because of the Brexit misunderstanding looming over them.

Dollar advanced by 0.2 percent which is the biggest gain for the greenback in more than a week.

Euro lost 0.3 percent with Brexit adding more and more pressure to the region - $1.1736 – the weakest point for European currency in more than a week.

Pound declined 0.2 percent - $1.316.

Oil couldn’t hold onto the positions gained by the crude in the previous days and overall growing dollar causes commodities to stay in the red zone for today.

WTI doesn’t extend the two-days-in-a-row-gains with 0.62 percent drop - $71.83 per barrel.

Brent declined 0.6 percent - $81.38.

Natural gas lost 0.55 percent - $3.07 per MMBtu.

Heating oil dropped 0.47 percent - $229.45 per gallon.

Gold is down 0.48 percent - $1199.30 per ounce.

Silver declined 0.5 percent - $14.42.

Ounce of platinum added 0.32 percent - $825.67.