Today’s performance of Asian and European stocks and indices is far from desirable. The losses are once again marking almost all of the major players and traders around the world are slowly going into the-end-of-the-week selloff which can possibly reflect well on the next week’s performance.
Topix lost 0.4 percent.
Nikkei Stock Average 225 declined 1.05 percent.
Hang Seng decreased 2.3 percent.
S&P 500 futures declined 0.4 percent.
MSCI Asia Pacific lost 1 percent.
Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.6 percent.
MSCI Emerging Market declined 1.5 percent.
Currencies are having mixed day as well. Dollar has been growing since yesterday with gains reaching as much as 0.6 percent this morning. Now 0.2 percent are added to the greenback’s price. Euro and pound are dipping to the weakest points in a week for both of the currencies.
Dollar grew 0.2 percent against the basket of six major currencies and climbed to the highest point in almost two weeks.
Euro lost 0.2 percent - $1.134.
Pound dipped 0.3 percent - $1.302.
Although we saw a recovery in prices for oil this morning, right now both WTI and Brent have fallen again taken other commodities down with them
WTI oil lost 0.71 percent - $60.24 per barrel.
Brent lost 0.51 percent - $70.29 per barrel.
MMBtu of natural gas grew 1.1 percent - $3.58.
Heating oil dropped 0.68 off its per-gallon price - $215.36.
Gold lost 0.29 percent - $1221.5 per ounce.
Silver lost 0.58 percent - $14.34 per ounce.
Platinum decreased 0.27 percent - $861.86 per ounce.