Today’s Markets?
In Asia, Japan?+1.8%. Hong Kong?+2.9%. China?+0.6%. India?+2.5%.?
In Europe, at midday, London?+1.7%. Paris?+2.1%. Frankfurt?+1.5%.?
Futures at 7:00:?Dow?+0.5%. S&P?+0.5%. Nasdaq?+0.6%. Crude?+1.7%to $100. Gold?+0.3%?to $1777.20.
Economic calendar
8:30 Consumer Price Index and?Retail Sales
9:15 Industrial Production
9:55 Reuters/UofM Consumer Sentiment
10:00 Business Inventories
Fed Speak
1:00 PM Fed’s Lockhart: ‘Employment Consequences of the Great Recession’
Stories
ICE Traders Held Talks With CME From Wall Street Journal
Peregrine CEO set to leave jail after guilty plea From Reuters
BlueMountain tempts banks to ditch their derivatives From Reuters
U.S. financial risk council could use more sunlight – GAO From Reuters
SEC says bolstering market technology standards a priority From Reuters
4 years after Lehman, Street?s future is a mystery From Crain’s