Morning wrap (23.12.2021)

8:02 AM 23 December 2021
  • US indices continued to recover from the recent sell-off yesterday. S&P 500 gained 1.02%, Dow Jones added 0.74% while Nasdaq jumped 1.18%. Russell 2000 moved 0.86% higher

  • Indices from the Asia-Pacific region also traded higher. Nikkei added 0.8%, S&P/ASX 200 moved 0.3% higher and Kospi gained 0.5%. Indices from China traded 0.3-0.9% higher

  • DAX futures point to a slightly higher opening of the European cash session today

  • Studies from the United Kingdom showed that risk of hospitalisation due to Omicron variant is lower than in case of Delta variant

  • China ordered 13 million residents of Xi'an city to stay at home amid coronavirus outbreak in the city. 

  • Japan boosted the real GDP growth forecast for fiscal-2022 (April 2022 - March 2023) from 2.2 to 3.2%. Upgrade was in-line with market rumours

  • South Korea will releases 2.08 million barrels of oil and 1.09 million barrels of petroleum products from its strategic reserves between January and March 2022

  • Cryptocurrencies traded sideways yesterday and so far today. Bitcoin trades slightly above $48,000 mark

  • EUR and NZD are the best performing major currencies while JPY and USD lag the most

  • Majority of precious metals gain but palladium lags behind, dropping 2%. Oil trade little changed while industrial metals gain slightly

PALLADIUM is the worst performing precious metal today. Commodity drops around 2% and threatens to break back below the support zone at $1,835. Palladium has been trading in a downward move for over half a year and has shed 40% of its value during the period. Source: xStation5

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