Peasuring Heads, Equity Markets Are Flooded With Red In The Morning

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 Several Wall Street indexes ended in the red with investors digesting signs of easing U.S. inflation and expectations of a less aggressive rate hike in battling the persistent price spike.


The Producer Price Index (PPI) published overnight witnessed a decline, as users' inflation rate decisions were made on Wednesday.


For these factors, Joe Saluzzi from Themis Trading underlined that now is the time for investors to properly digest the data released to determine the movement the Fed will make in the September meeting.


On the other hand, ANZ's analyst note also stated that the gains may reduce the tail of the previous market indecision, which is an over-reaction.


In that streak, Wall Street's closing session saw the Dow Jones Industrial up 0.08% at 33,336.67, the S&P 500 losing 0.07% at 4,207.27 and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.58% at 12,779.91.


In the European zone, the STOXX 600 closed in an ascending 0.06% flow and the MSCI benchmark worldwide stocks ended a high of 0.07%.



In the Asian session also Japan's Nikkei 225 started trading well at 1.92%, the Topix rose 1.59% while South Korea's Kospi reached 0.28% and the Kosdaq was flat.


MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.14%.


Currency flows showed the dollar index was still weak but it pared last session's losses slightly to be at 0.114% with the euro up 0.24% at $1.0322 while the yen was down 0.09% at $133.04 and the sterling was down 0.24% at $1.2196.


Meanwhile, Treasury yields showed a surge with the 10-year note level marker falling 29/32 in price to 2.8839% from 2.781% and the 30-year note down 78/32 at 3.1716% from 3.042%.


For commodities, US crude was up 2.6% at $94.34 and Brent crude added 2.3% at $99.90 after the International Energy Agency raised its demand growth forecast for 2022 if natural gas prices rebound.


Spot gold was also down 0.3% at $1,787.61 an ounce.

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