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US indices finished yesterday's trading higher. S&P 500 gained 0.71%, Dow Jones added 0.55% and Nasdaq jumped 0.95%. Russell 2000 gained 1.71%
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Stocks traded mostly lower during the Asian trading. Nikkei dropped 0.38%, S&P/ASX 200 moved 1.12% lower and Kospi declined 0.75%. Indices from China traded mixed
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DAX futures point to a higher opening of the European session
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Media report that Democrat Raphael Warnock has won a Senate seat in one of the Georgia races. The second race is still too close to call
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Bitcoin jumped above $35,000 for the first time
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Trump issued executive order forbidding transactions with 8 software apps from China
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OPEC+ agreed that Russia and Kazakhstan will increase production by a total of 75k bpd in February and another 75k bpd in March. Saudi Arabia voluntarily agreed to make a 1 million bpd production cut.
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API data showed a 1.66 million barrel decline in oil inventories (exp. -1.5 mb)
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Precious metals pull back while oil and agricultural commodities gain
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AUD and NZD are the best performing major currencies while USD and JPY lag the most
Almost 685 thousand new coronavirus cases were reported yesterday. Source: worldometers, XTB
