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European indices finished today's cash trading mixed with majority of blue chips indices from Western Europe deviating less than 0.3% from yesterday's closing prices
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DAX futures (DE30) climbed back above 16,000 pts and reached the highest level since January 2022
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Wall Street indices launched today's trading lower. However, losses were being erased as the session went on and now S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 are trading in positive territory. Dow Jones trades slightly lower on the day
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Asian session as well as the first half of the European session was marked with USD strengthening, which put pressure on precious metals and energy commodities
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USD started to lose ground in the afternoon allowing silver to recover from losses and gold to reapproach $2,000 area
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Netflix dropped 4% after company released disappointing Q1 2023 earnings report that showed slowdown in subscriber growth
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IBM and Tesla are set to report Q1 2023 financials after close of the Wall Street session today
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Bloomberg reported that Bank of Japan is unlikely to tweak its yield curve control policy at April meeting
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Cryptocurrencies were trading lower today with Bitcoin dropping below $29,500 mark and Ethereum moving below $2,000 area
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GBP and NZD are the best performing major currencies while JPY and CAD lag the most
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Final CPI inflation data from euro area for March confirmed flash reading and showed headline CPI dropping from 8.5 to 6.9% YoY while core gauge ticked higher from 5.6 to 5.7% YoY
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Japanese industrial production increased 4.6% MoM in February (exp. 4.5% MoM)
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UK CPI inflation decelerated from 10.4 to 10.1% YoY in March (exp. 9.8% YoY). Core gauge stayed unchanged at 6.2% YoY (exp. 6.0% YoY)
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Canadian housing starts data for March came in at 213.9k (exp. 240k)
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Oil recovered part of the losses after the DOE report showed a massive 4.58 million barrel draw in US inventories (exp. -2.5 mb)
Nasdaq-100 (US100) continues to struggle in the vicinity of the upper limit of an Overbalance structure. Recent price action signals indecisiveness with the index trading mostly sideways over the past 2-3 weeks. However, earnings reports from Tesla, IBM and others may provide fuel for the move of the tech-heavy index. Source: xStation5
