Mixed performance in the Asian markets is extended into today, although it has been quite a tendency this week. Europe on the other hand is looking pretty good with indices there experiencing jumps that they haven’t seen in several weeks.

Hang Seng advanced 0.4 percent.

S&P 500 futures rose 0.5 percent.

Nikkei Stock Average 225 lost 0.2 percent.

Shanghai Composite climbed 0.7 percent.

Topix decreased 0.4 percent.

Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.2 percent.

FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent.

DAX from Germany surged 0.4 percent.

MSCI Asia Pacific grew 0.8 percent – the largest jump in 2 weeks.

MSCI Emerging Market grew 1.1 percent.

Greenback has been extremely unstable with its value against the six major peers changing for several times a day. That is also not allowing other currencies to find a stable position.

Dollar lost 0.1 percent against the basket of six major peers.

Euro jumped 0.3 percent - $1.134.

Pound lost 0.1 percent - $1.2981.

Oil has stabilized for now, although it seems to be quite a habit for the crude to lose price with the opening of the market and then gain it all back during the day.

WTI oil advanced 0.04 percent - $56.27 per barrel.

Brent grew 0.47 percent - $66.43 per barrel.

Natural gas decreased 4.84 percent - $4.6 per MMBtu.

Heating oil rose 0.41 percent - $210.44 per gallon.

Gold increased 0.41 percent - $1215.1 per ounce.

Silver adds 0.92 percent - $14.21.

Platinum is up by 0.44 percent - $838.95 per ounce.