Here is a snapshot of the global markets across stocks, currencies, bonds, commodities and cryptocurrencies.
Continuing crude oil price surge, positive earnings updates, rising bond yields, moderating Dollar Index etc. characterize the world financial landscape at this hour. Asian equity markets mostly closed in the red. European stocks recouped losses amidst buoyant earnings updates. American stock futures portend gains on opening. The Dollar Index which measures the greenback against a basket of 6 currencies retreated. Bond yields surged across tenors and geographies. Political tensions, outage in turkey, supply concerns etc. caused crude oil prices to shoot up further. Gold gained in tandem with the drop in the Dollar Index. Cryptocurrencies dropped further. Bitcoin is down more than 1 percent.
Stock Indexes:
DJIA at 35,447.80, up 0.22%
S&P 500 at 4,591.40, up 0.31%
Germany’s DAX at 15,818.71, up 0.29%
U.K.’s FTSE 100 at 7,578.99, up 0.20%
France’s CAC 40 at 7,181.67, up 0.67%
Euro Stoxx 50 at 4,282.73, up 0.59%
Japan’s Nikkei 225 at 27,467.23, down 2.80%
Australia’s S&P ASX 200 at 7,332.50, down 1.03%
China’s Shanghai Composite at 3,558.18, down 0.33%
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng at 24,127.85, up 0.06%
Ten-Year Govt Bond Yields:
U.S. at 1.884%, up 0.88%
Germany at 0.0045%, up 126.47%
France at 0.390%, up 5.98%
U.K. at 1.2675%, up 3.98%
Japan at 0.137%, up 1.87%
Currencies:
EURUSD at 1.1347, up 0.20%
GBPUSD at 1.3625 up 0.23%
USDJPY at 114.50, down 0.10%
AUDUSD at 0.7214, up 0.44%
USDCAD at 1.2475, down 0.30%
Dollar Index at 95.56, down 0.18%
Commodities:
Crude Oil WTI Futures (February) at $86.06, up 1.45%
Brent Oil Futures (March) at $88.57, up 1.21%
Gold Futures (February) at $1,818.75, up 0.35%
Cryptocurrencies:
Bitcoin at $41,511.81, down 1.08%
Ethereum at $3,076.12, down 3.05%
BNB at $458.72, down 1.54%
Cardano at $1.39, down 7.79%
Solana at $134.15, down 2.51%
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