Today’s Markets?
In Asia, Japan?+0.2%?to 8947. Hong Kong?+0.8%?to 21822. China?+1.7%to 2104. India?+0.3%?to 18562.?
In Europe, at midday, London?+0.5%. Paris?+0.5%. Frankfurt?+0.5%.?
Futures at 7:00:?Dow flat. S&P?-0.1%. Nasdaq?+0.1%. Crude?+0.2%?to $86.43. Gold?+0.2%?to $1722.80.
Economic calendar
Auto sales
Chain Store Sales
7:30 Challenger Job-Cut Report
8:15 ADP Jobs Report
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims and?Productivity and Costs
9:00 PMI Manufacturing Index
9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
10:00 ISM Manufacturing Index,?Construction Spending and?Consumer Confidence
10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories and?EIA Natural Gas Inventory
4:30 Money Supply and?Fed Balance Sheet
Earnings
AIG, AmerisourceBergen, Barrick Gold,?Blue Nile, Cablevision, Cigna, Digital River, Edison International, Exxon Mobil,?Fluor, Furniture Brands,?Hillshire Brands,?Kellogg,?Las Vegas Sands,?Lincoln National, LinkedIn,?Marathon Petroleum,?Monster Worldwide,?New Gold?Newmont Mining, R.R. Donnelley,?Starbucks,?ValueClick and?Visteon?
Stories
Knight Capital Up and Running After Power Outage on First Day of Trading After the?Storm ? ?From The New York Observer
Birth of a market? As Dodd-Frank takes hold, swaps futures are in the limelight From Automated Trader?
Swap-Trading Rules Won?t Be Finished by November, O?Malia Says From Bloomberg
Nasdaq acquires Mergent indexing business From Financial Times
Niederauer Says NYSE Open Was Smooth as Closure Ends From Bloomberg
Q&A with Joe Mecane: NYSE’s head of US equities From Financial News
A Year After MF Global?s Collapse, Brokerage Firms Feel Less Pressure for Change From New York Times