Equity markets remained solid as investors become less wary of the US government shutdown.
Stocks
- The S&P 500 Index jumped by 0.77 percent as of 15:20 London time. Financial sector was leading the gains today.
- The Nasdaq 100 recovered some its losses from yesterday and jumped 0.20 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average also soar by 0.45 percent.
- The Stoxx Europe 600 Index reacted positively to Italian trade balance data and jumped by 0.30 percent.
- Germany’s DAX Index gained 197 points today and jumped up by 1.77% percent.
- The MSCI Emerging Market Index moved lower by 0.40% on a volume of 11.2M shares.
Currencies
- The Dollar Spot Index finally moved higher by 0.13% on the back of better US data.
- The Euro moved lower again and dropped by 0.31 percent; the high of the day was $1.1303 and the low of the day was 1.1234 against the dollar.
- The British pound reclaimed its 1.28 against the dollar despite the Brexit chaos. It GBP/USD jumped by 0.09%, the low of the day was 1.2784 and high of the day was 1.2840.
- The Japanese Yen maintained its strength and moved higher by 0.10 percent.
Bonds
- The yield on 10-year Treasuries moved higher by one basis point to 2.66 percent.
- Germany’s 10-year was unchanged and stayed 0.10 percent.
- Britain’s 10-year yield also remained unchanged at 1.161.
Commodities
- West Texas Intermediate crude jumped higher by 1.71 percent to $55.74.
- Gold move higher as uncertainty around geoploticis continued and touched the highest level in two days, it jumped by 0.3%
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