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Market Talk – December 8, 2021

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ASIA:

 

The major Asian stock markets had a green day today:

  • NIKKEI 225 increased 405.02 points or 1.42% to 28,860.62
  • Shanghai increased 42.48 or 1.18% to 3,637.57
  • Hang Seng increased 13.21 points or 0.06% to 23,996.87
  • ASX 200 increased 91.50 points or 1.25 to 7,405.40
  • Kospi increased 10.08 points or 0.34% to 3,001.80
  • SENSEX increased 1,016.03 points or 1.76% to 58,649.68
  • Nifty50 increased 293.05 points or 1.71% to 17,469.75

 

 

The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

  • AUDUSD increased 0.00597 or 0.84% to 0.71791
  • NZDUSD increased 0.00259 or 0.38% to 0.68145
  • USDJPY increased 0.21 or 0.19% to 113.70
  • USDCNY decreased 0.03364 or -0.53% to 6.33105

 

Precious Metals:

  • Gold decreased 0.31 USD/t oz. or -0.02% to 1,783.73
  • Silver decreased 0.056 USD/t. oz or -0.25% to 22.414

 

Some economic news from last night:

Japan:

Current Account n.s.a. (Oct) increased from 1.034T to 1.180T

GDP (QoQ) (Q3) decreased from 0.5% to -0.9%

GDP (YoY) (Q3) decreased from 1.9% to -3.6%

India:

Interest Rate Decision remain the same at 4.00%

 

Some economic news from today:

Japan:

Economy Watchers Current Index (Nov) increased from 55.5 to 56.3

 

EUROPE/EMEA:

The major Europe stock markets had a negative day:

 

  • CAC 40 decreased 50.82 points or -0.72% to 7,014.57
  • FTSE 100 decreased 2.55 points or -0.03% to 7,337.35
  • DAX 30 decreased 126.85 points or -0.80% to 15,687.09

 

 

The major Europe currency markets had a mixed day today:

  • EURUSD increased 0.00769 or 0.68% to 1.13485
  • GBPUSD decreased 0.0008 or -0.06% to 1.32370
  • USDCHF decreased 0.00385 or -0.42% to 0.92063

 

Some economic news from Europe today:

France:

French Non-Farm Payrolls (QoQ) (Q3) decreased from 1.2% to 0.4%

US/AMERICAS:

US Market Closings:

  • Dow advanced 35.32 points or 0.1% to 35,754.75
  • S&P 500 advanced 14.46 points or 0.31% to 4,701.21
  • Nasdaq advanced 100.07 points or 0.64% to 15,786.99
  • Russell 2000 advanced 17.92 points or 0.8% to 2,271.71

 

Canada Market Closings:

  • TSX Composite declined 85.3 points or -0.4% to 21,077.35
  • TSX 60 declined 3.73 points or -0.29% to 1,277.68

 

Brazil Market Closing:

  • Bovespa advanced 537.86 points or 0.5% to 108,095.53

 

ENERGY:

 

The oil markets had a green day today:

 

  • Crude Oil increased 0.43 USD/BBL or 0.60% to 72.4800
  • Brent increased 0.46 USD/BBL or 0.61% to 75.9000
  • Natural gas increased 0.141 USD/MMBtu or 3.80% to 3.8490
  • Gasoline increased 0.0439 USD/GAL or 2.09% to 2.1439
  • Heating oil increased 0.0359 USD/GAL or 1.61% to 2.2605

 

The above data was collected around 13:00 EST on Wednesday

 

  • Top commodity gainers: Natural Gas (3.80%) and Zinc (2.70%), Coal (3.18%), Lumber (3.16%)
  • Top commodity losers: Oat (-2.61%), Wheat (-1.47%), Palm Oil (-1.91%), and Canola (-1.63%)

 

 

The above data was collected around 13:15 EST on Wednesday

 

BONDS:

 

Japan 0.046%(-0.8bp), US 2’s 0.6815% (-0.01%), US 10’s 1.5161%(+3.42bps); US 30’s 1.8736% (+0.06%), Bunds -0.313% (+6.2bp), France 0.043% (+6.6bp), Italy 1.042% (+12.4bp), Turkey 20.54% (+7bp), Greece 1.374% (+12bp), Portugal 0.365% (+10.1bp); Spain 0.42% (+8.44bp) and UK Gilts 0.761% (+3bp).