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...(-0.72%) at 12,036 Currencies €/$ 1.08 (1.08) $/¥ 120.18 (120.12) £/$ 1.49 (1.49) €/£ 0.7242 (0.7249) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.54 at 56.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.50 at 50.92 100 Oz Gold...
...at 103.79 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -1.70 at 1,293...
...(Financial Times) Currency manipulation should be part of trade talks, Senators say: “A bipartisan majority of the US Senate demanded that US President Barack Obama address “currency manipulation” in trade...
...the US government shutdown. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/70b2ab3a-2ca4-11e3-8b20-00144feab7de.html Rupee Leads Weekly Advance in Asian Currencies on Fed Asian currencies rose this week, led by India’s rupee...
...Dax up +16.37 (+0.19%) at 8,472 Currencies €/$ 1.29 (1.29) $/¥ 102.47 (102.46) £/$ 1.51 (1.52) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.33 at 103.58 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.49 at 95.69 100 Oz Gold...
...) unchanged 0.00 at 3.31 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.70% UK 2.94% Germany 1.92% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe -0.75bps at 87.24bp Markit iTraxx Europe +1.1bps at 100.26bp...
...50.41 (-1.32%) at 3,755 Dax down -69.12 (-0.87%) at 7,875 Currencies €/$ 1.28 (1.28) $/¥ 92.89 (92.93) £/$ 1.51 (1.51) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.37 at 107.48 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.07...
...of the most shameful episodes of the British empire. http://on.ft.com/Y5d2vv Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.66% at 1,071 Americas DJIA up +0.39% at 14,036 S&P 500 up +0.73% at 1,531...
...China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: DOWN Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -103.32 (-0.97%) at 10,496 Topix down -9.66 (-1.10%) at 871.40 Hang Seng down -140.23 (-0.60%) at 23,190 US markets S&P 500 down...
...1.84% UK 2.01% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe -0.78bps at 99.05bp Markit iTraxx Europe +0.96bps at 103.93bp Markit iTraxx Xover +3.53bps at 423.93bp Markit CDX IG -0.5bps at 87.16bp...
...Macintosh computers to the United States fromChina next year, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in remarks published on Thursday, in what could be a important test of the nascent comeback in U.S.electronics...
...(Nymex) down -0.36 at 87.02 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +3.30 at 1,728...
...) at 1,103 FTSE100 up +54.80 (+0.95%) at 5,850 CAC 40 up +50.55 (+1.48%) at 3,459 Dax up +81.24 (+1.13%) at 7,284 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 79.59 (79.62) £/$ 1.61 (1.61) Commodities ($) Brent Crude...
...“Asian shares ambled higher on Friday and were on course for a weekly gain of more than 2 percent, their best in two months, after manufacturing surveys from China and the United States raised hopes that...
...(Wall Street Journal) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +112.89 (+1.27%) at 8,994 Topix up +5.11 (+0.69%) at 750.75 Hang Seng up +165.35 (+0.82%) at 20,231 US markets S&P 500 up +0.87...
...A secret US bank ‘recovery plan’ programme has been going on for two years, applied to five of the country’s biggest banks and overseen by the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...
...€/$ 1.24 (1.24) $/¥ 78.73 (79.09) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.31 at 103.16 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.18 at 87.64 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -3.90 at 1,560...
...The drop in raw materials prices on Wednesday came as the US dollar, the currency in which most commodities are denominated, rose to its highest level against a basket of leading currencies since September...
...€/$ 1.31 (1.32) $/¥ 80.87 (81.16) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.03 at 118.68 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.05 at 103.06 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,632...
...Currencies in the region dropped as US jobless claims rose, fighting in Libya escalated, and protests erupted in Saudi Arabia. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 1% to 134.84 as of 11:38 am in Tokyo....
...China ups holdings of US debt in April China, the largest foreign holder of United States Treasuries, bought more federal bonds in April for the first time since October despite concerns over the US debt...
...up +0.99% at 529.29 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.29% at 6,036 Currencies €/$ 1.35 (1.35) $/¥ 84.22 (84.32) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.08 at 78.79 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.11 at 76.60 100 Oz Gold...
...But oil was $0.72 up at $40.87 per barrel....
...Seng down 572.28 at 17,110.12 European markets (Fri) FTSE100 up 109.91 at 4,980.25 Eurofirst 300 up 31.87 at 1,089.38 Currencies 05.19am BST €/$ 1.3627 (1.3866) $/Y 103.06 (105.19) £/$ 1.7570 (1.7708)...
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