With American Treasury yields being higher than the markets were ready to accept, Asian and European numbers are far away from satisfactory today with quite some major losses in both of the regions.

Topix gained 0.2 percent.

Kospi lost 1.5 percent.

S&P 500 futures declined 0.3 percent.

Hang Seng is down 1.7 percent.

MSCI Asia Pacific is down by 1.1 percent.

Stoxx Europe 600 lost 0.7 percent.

FTSE decreased 0.9 percent.

DAX declined 0.1 percent.

MSCI Emerging Market shed 1.9 percent.

Equities are growing despite dollar’s performance in the world arena today. With greenback gaining point against major peers it would be natural to see losses in other currencies, but we only see green today.

Dollar gained 0.1 percent against the basket of six major peers and reached the highest point in almost 2 months.

Euro advanced 0.2 percent - $1.1501 with the biggest rise in two weeks.

Pound gained 0.3 percent - $1.2979.

Oil is losing for the first time this week and although the losses are not that great for us to worry, bullish behavior of the asset has put a lot of hope on it over the past few weeks.

WTI oil declined 0.18 percent - $76.27 per barrel.

Brent is down by 0.2 percent - $86.12.

Natural gas grew 0.09 percent - $3.23 per MMBtu.

Heating oil lost 0.25 percent - $243.12 per gallon.

Gold grew 0.06 percent - $1203.60 per ounce.

Ounce of silver is up 0.14 percent - $14.69.

Platinum picked its per-ounce price up by 0.06 percent - $826.23.