Asian and European markets are mostly gaining as the new trading month begins. With good news coming from the United States and Canada, some of the positive outlook of traders is aimed on Asia and Europe.
Kospi lost 0.2 percent.
Nikkei 225 Stock Average added 0.5 percent.
Hang Seng increased 0.3 percent.
S&P 500 futures gained 0.5 percent.
Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.1 percent.
MSCI World Index of developed countries lost 0.1 percent.
MSCI Emerging Market lost 0.2 percent.
NAFTA deal being discussed and all of the nuances of the deal being settled gives a lot of lost stability to the currency trading, especially to ASD, CAD and MXN trading
Dollar gained less than 0.05 percent against the basket of six major currencies. Small gain let the greenback go to the highest point in three weeks.
Euro lost 0.2 percent which is the weakest in three weeks - $1.1599.
Peso gained 0.9 percent – 18.548 per dollar.
CAD gained 0.5 percent – c$1.2842 – the best price in almost 5 months.
Commodities are mixed with oil still climbing up and Brent reaching 4-year-high even as OPEC meeting took place a week ago.
WTI oil adds 0.15 percent - $73.36.
Brent is up 0.13 percent - $82.84.
Natural gas adds 0.57 percent - $3.03 per MMBtu.
Heating oil increases 0.3 percent - $235.56 per gallon.
Gold lost 0.46 percent - $1190.7 per ounce.
Silver declined 0.42 percent - $14.65 per ounce.
Platinum is in the gain - +0.03 percent - $816.21.