With several Asian stock markets closed Tuesday, world stock markets rose to a six-year high on Monday on optimism about the global economy heading into 2014, while the euro strengthened against the dollar and yen.
Tuesday 31 December 2013
U.S.STOCKS
U.S. stocks closed
mostly flat on Monday, with the Dow edging up to another record closing high
and the S&P 500 index's advance stalling in response to light trading
volume and weaker-than-forecast housing data.
U.S.TREASURIES
The 10-year Treasury
note rose 9/32 in price on Monday to yield 2.974 percent, after the yields rose
to 3.002 percent on Friday, the highest since July 2011.
FTSE
The FTSE 100 closed
down 19.60 points, or 0.3 percent, at 6,731.27 points, pausing after its
longest winning streak since October, which saw it rise around 4 percent since Dec.
18.
DOLLAR
The dollar last
fetched about 104.93 yen, down 0.2 percent on the day and inching away from
Monday's five-year high of 105.41 yen, the greenback's strongest level versus
the yen since October 2008.
NIKKEI
Japan's Nikkei stock
average rose to a fresh six-year high on Monday to close out 2013 with a 57
percent annual gain, its biggest in more than 40 years on the back of aggressive
economic stimulus by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
BRENT CRUDE
Brent crude shed 97 cents to settle at $111.21 a barrel
after earlier hitting a low of $110.90.
CRUDE OIL
Crude oil futures
tumbled on both sides of the Atlantic on Monday on early signals that oil
output in Libya may be starting to recover and concerns over a buildup in local
government debt in China, the world's second-largest oil consumer.
LME COPPER
Three-month copper
on the London Metal Exchange rose 0.1 percent to $7,381.25 a tonne by 0107 GMT.
Copper climbed to $7,415.50 a tonne on Friday, its highest since August 16.
COPPER
London copper edged higher on Tuesday to trade around a four-month high and aluminium rose for a third consecutive session to hover near a two-month top as an improved global economic outlook supported metals.
SILVER
Silver fell 2.4
percent to $19.56 an ounce. Silver is down 35 percent this year in its worst
annual performance since at least 1982.
SPOT PLATINUM
Spot platinum was
down 1.2 percent at $1,355.50 an ounce, snapping four consecutive sessions of
gains. ''
SPDR GOLD
SPDR Gold Trust, the
world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell 0.37
percent to 798.22 tonnes on Monday from 801.22 tonnes on Friday. In terms of
ounces, holdings fell to 25,663,578.79 from 25,760,019.68, their lowest since
2009
GOLD
Gold added $2.80 an
ounce to $1,198.80 by 0255 GMT, but was set to end this year down around 28
percent. Prices were sharply lower than all-time highs above $1,900 in 2011,
when a worsening debt crisis in Europe sparked buying.
U.S.MARKET UPDATE
U.S. stocks closed
mostly flat on Monday, with the Dow edging up to another record closing high
and the S&P 500 index's advance stalling in response to light trading
volume and weaker-than-forecast housing data.
The Dow Jones industrial
average rose 25.88 points, or 0.16 percent, to end at 16,504.29, a record
close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dipped just 0.33 of a point, or 0.02
percent, to finish at 1,841.07.
Friday 27 December 2013
ASIAN STOCKS
Asian markets looked
well placed on Friday as Wall Street reached record heights for a fourth
straight session, while rising U.S. yields lifted the dollar to new peaks on
the yen.
U.S.STOCKS
U.S. stocks rose on
Thursday, with the Dow and S&P 500 ending at record highs as retail shares
rallied following strong data about the holiday shopping season.''
U.S.TREASURIES
U.S. benchmark
Treasuries yields edged higher on Thursday, just below their two-year high of 3
percent, in light trading as most investors stayed out of the market after the
Christmas holiday.
NIKKKEI
The Nikkei shed 0.6
percent to 16,083.30 in mid-morning trade after earlier hitting a six-year high
of 16,232.69. The index was on track to end a seventh straight day of gains,
its longest such run since October.
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