ASIA:

The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:

• NIKKEI 225 decreased 250.67 points or -0.90% to 27,522.26
• Shanghai decreased 32.49 points or -0.91% to 3,522.57
• Hang Seng increased 13.20 points or 0.05% to 24,965.55
• ASX 200 decreased 166.60 points or -2.27% to 7,175.80
• Kospi decreased 28.39 points or -0.99% to 2,834.29
• SENSEX decreased 427.44 points or -0.72% to 59,037.18
• Nifty50 decreased 139.85 points or -0.79% to 17,617.15

The major Asian currency markets had a negative day today:

• AUDUSD decreased 0.00152 or -0.21% to 0.71995
• NZDUSD decreased 0.0048 or -0.71% to 0.67270
• USDJPY decreased 0.28 or -0.25% to 113.734
• USDCNY decreased 0.00638 or -0.10% to 6.33950

Precious Metals:

• Gold decreased 6.25 USD/t oz. or -0.34% to 1,832.11
• Silver decreased 0.08 USD/t. oz or -0.33% to 24.350

Some economic news from last night:

Japan:

CPI, n.s.a (MoM) (Dec) decreased from 0.2% to 0.0%

National Core CPI (YoY) (Dec)remain the same at 0.5%

National CPI (MoM) decreased from 0.3% to 0.1%

National CPI (YoY) (Dec) increased from 0.6% to 0.8%

New Zealand:

Business NZ PMI (Dec) increased from 50.6 to 53.7

External Migration & Visitors (Nov) increased from -27.30% to 3.80%

Permanent/Long-Term Migration (Nov) decreased from 717 to 130

Some economic news from today

India:

FX Reserves, USD increased from 632.74B to 634.97B

EUROPE/EMEA:

The major Europe stock markets had a negative day:

• CAC 40 decreased 125.57 points or -1.75% to 7,068.59
• FTSE 100 decreased 90.88 points or -1.20% to 7,494.13
• DAX 30 decreased 308.45 points or -1.94% to 15,603.88

The major Europe currency markets had a mixed day today:

• EURUSD increased 0.00336 or 0.30% to 1.13454
• GBPUSD decreased 0.00406 or -0.30% to 1.35541
• USDCHF decreased 0.0052 or -0.57% to 0.91207

Some economic news from Europe today:

UK:

Core Retail Sales (YoY) (Dec) decreased from 2.2% to -3.0%

Core Retail Sales (MoM) (Dec) decreased from 0.7% to -3.6%

Retail Sales (MoM) (Dec) decreased from 1.0% to -3.7%

Retail Sales (YoY) (Dec) decreased from 4.3% to -0.9%

Euro Zone:

Consumer Confidence (Jan) decreased from -8.4 to -8.5

US/AMERICAS:

US Market Closings:

• Dow declined 450.02 points or -1.3% to 34,265.37
• S&P 500 declined 84.79 points or -1.89% to 4,397.94
• Nasdaq declined 385.1 points or -2.72% to 13,768.92
• Russell 2000 declined 36.12 points or -1.78% to 1,987.92

Canada Market Closings:

• TSX Composite declined 436.79 points or -2.07% to 20,621.39
• TSX 60 declined 26.16 points or -2.04% to 1,254.05

Brazil Market Closing:

• Bovespa declined 160.31 points or -0.15% to 108,941.68

ENERGY:

The oil markets had a mixed day today:

• Crude Oil decreased 0.13 USD/BBL or -0.15% to 85.4200
• Brent decreased 0.27 USD/BBL or -0.31% to 88.1100
• Natural gas increased 0.132 USD/MMBtu or 3.47% to 3.9340
• Gasoline decreased 0.0077 USD/GAL or -0.31% to 2.4545
• Heating oil increased 0.016 USD/GAL or 0.60% to 2.6878

The above data was collected around 11:25 EST on Friday

• Top commodity gainers: Lithium (2.35%) and Natural Gas (3.47%), Palm Oil (2.60%), Palladium (2.39%)
• Top commodity losers: Lumber (-3.79%), Cocoa(-2.22%), Oat(-1.95%) and Rubber(-1.86%)

The above data was collected around 11:35 EST on Friday.

BONDS:

Japan 0.129%(-1.4bp), US 2’s 1.01% (-0.019%), US 10’s 1.7616% (-4.95bps); US 30’s 2.0840% (-0.04%), Bunds -0.063% (-3.6bp), France 0.33% (-3.3bp), Italy 1.355% (-1.5bp), Turkey 21.54% (+0bp), Greece 1.702% (+0.1bp), Portugal 0.551% (-6.6bp); Spain 0.624% (-4.9bp) and UK Gilts 1.172% (-5.5bp).