ASIA:

The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:

• NIKKEI 225 increased 26.70 points or 0.10% to 27,990.17
• Shanghai increased 50.68 points or 1.64% to 3,134.08
• Hang Seng increased 723.41 points or 4.11% to 18,343.12
• Kospi increased 5.68 points or 0.23% to 2,480.33
• ASX 200 decreased 4.70 points or -0.07% to 7,141.60
• SENSEX increased 248.84 points or 0.40% to 61,872.99
• Nifty50 increased 74.25 points or 0.41% to 18,403.40

The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

• AUDUSD increased 0.00882 or 1.32% to 0.67871
• NZDUSD increased 0.00843 or 1.38% to 0.61783
• USDJPY decreased 0.896 or -0.64% to 139.156
• USDCNY increased 0.00556 or 0.08% to 7.04686

Precious Metals:

• Gold decreased 1.89 USD/t oz. or -0.11% to 1,769.91
• Silver decreased 0.465 USD/t. oz or -2.12% to 21.500

Some economic news from last night:

China:

Fixed Asset Investment (YoY) (Oct) decreased from 5.9% to 5.8%

Industrial Production (YoY) (Oct) decreased from 6.3% to 5.0%

Chinese Industrial Production YTD (YoY) (Oct) increased from 3.9% to 4.0%

Chinese Unemployment Rate remain the same at 5.5%

Japan:

Industrial Production (MoM) (Sep) decreased from 3.4% to -1.7%

GDP (QoQ) (Q3) decreased from 1.1% to -0.3%

GDP (YoY) (Q3) decreased from 4.6% to -1.2%

Some economic news from today:

India:

Exports (USD) (Oct) decreased from 35.45B to 29.78B

Imports (USD) (Oct) decreased from 61.16B to 56.69B

Trade Balance (Oct) decreased from -25.71B to -26.91B

New Zealand:

GlobalDairyTrade Price Index increased from -3.9% to 2.4%

EUROPE/EMEA:

The major Europe stock markets had a mixed day:

• CAC 40 increased 32.49 points or 0.49% to 6,641.66
• FTSE 100 decreased 15.73 points or -0.21% to 7,369.44
• DAX 30 increased 65.21 points or 0.46% to 14,378.51

The major Europe currency markets had a green day today:

• EURUSD increased 0.00518 or 0.50% to 1.03771
• GBPUSD increased 0.01351 or 1.15% to 1.18918
• USDCHF increased 0.00155 or 0.16% to 0.94445

Some economic news from Europe today:

UK:

Average Earnings Index +Bonus (Sep) decreased from 6.1% to 6.0%

Claimant Count Change (Oct) decreased from 3.9K to 3.3K

Employment Change 3M/3M (MoM) (Sep) increased from -109K to -52K

Unemployment Rate (Sep) increased from 3.5% to 3.6%

France:

French CPI (MoM) (Oct) increased from -0.6% to 1.0%

French HICP (MoM) (Oct) increased from -0.5% to 1.2%

Spain:

Spanish CPI (YoY) (Oct) decreased from 8.9% to 7.3%

Spanish HICP (YoY) (Oct) decreased from 9.0% to 7.3%

Germany:

German ZEW Current Conditions (Nov) increased from -72.2 to -64.5

German ZEW Economic Sentiment (Nov) increased from -59.2 to -36.7

Euro Zone:

GDP (QoQ) (Q3) decreased from 0.8% to 0.2%

GDP (YoY) (Q3) decreased from 4.3% to 2.1%

Trade Balance (Sep) increased from -52.4B to -34.4B

ZEW Economic Sentiment (Nov) increased from -59.7 to -38.7

US/AMERICAS:

US Market Closings:

• Dow advanced 56.22 points or 0.17% to 33,592.92
• S&P 500 advanced 34.48 points or 0.87% to 3,991.73
• Nasdaq advanced 162.19 points or 1.45% to 11,358.41
• Russell 2000 advanced 27.95 points or 1.5% to 1,889.2

Canada Market Closings:

• TSX Composite advanced 72.97 points or 0.37% to 1,210.62
• TSX 60 advanced 4.48 points or 0.37% to 1,210.62

Brazil Market Closing:

• Bovespa advanced 907.79 points or 0.81% to 113,161.28

ENERGY:

The oil markets had a mixed day today:

• Crude Oil increased 0.174 USD/BBL or 0.20% to 86.044
• Brent decreased 0.003 USD/BBL or 0.00% to 93.137
• Natural gas increased 0.0944 USD/MMBtu or 1.59% to 6.0274
• Gasoline decreased 0.0109 USD/GAL or -0.43% to 2.5176
• Heating oil increased 0.0546 USD/GAL or 1.54% to 3.5986

The above data was collected around 11:56 EST on Tuesday

• Top commodity gainers: Lumber (2.86%), Cotton (4.02%), Palladium (2.22%) and Bitumen (7.93%)
• Top commodity losers: Palm Oil (-1.92%), Coffee (-5.87%), Methanol (-1.53%) and Silver (-2.12%)

The above data was collected around 12:02 EST on Tuesday.

BONDS:

Japan 0.248%(+0.8bp), US 2’s 4.39% (-0.017%), US 10’s 3.8255% (-4.15bps); US 30’s 4.00% (-0.063%), Bunds 2.113% (-4.6bp), France 2.603% (-5bp), Italy 4.056% (-11.4bp), Turkey 11.58% (-2bp), Greece 4.26% (-6.9bp), Portugal 3.069% (-8.9bp); Spain 3.147% (-5.7bp) and UK Gilts 3.297% (-6.4bp).

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