Dollar brings real joy to traders today with breaching 7 months high point as hopes for its growth is only getting bigger with Federal Reserve and ECB meeting scheduled for the next couple of days. European and Asian stocks edged higher. Oil is down.
Stoxx Europe 600 lost 0.1 percent.
S&P 500 Futures grew 0.1 percent, they are now at the highest point in almost 3 month.
DAX lost 0.05 percent.
MSCI Emerging Market lost 0.5 percent.
MSCI Asia Pacific is also 0.3 percent down – lowest point in a week,
Dollar added 0.1 percent against the basket of six major currencies and is now at the best performance in almost seven months.
Euro lost 0.05 percent - $1.1746.
Pound lost 0.1 percent - $1.3358 – weakest point in a week after Brexit talks threaten to disrupt May’s party from the inside.
WTI oil lost 0.26 percent - $66.19 per barrel.
Brent is 0.46 percent in the red zone - $75.53 per barrel.
Natural Gas costs 2.92 per MMBtu after having lost 0.54 percent.
Gold lost 0.16 percent - $1293.88 per ounce.
Copper is also losing – 0.49 percent loss brought an ounce of the metal to $323.35 per pound.
Wheat costs $533.00 per bushel after 0.28 percent loss.
Cocoa gained 1.5 percent - $2.444.00 per metric ton.