Global Market Trends (9th Dec., 2021)

December 9, 2021

MAJOR INDEXES

Market report as of 8th, December 2021

NAME	LAST	CHG	%CHG
S&P 500	4,701.210	14.4600	0.310
NASDAQ	15,786.99	100.070	0.640
DJIA	35,754.75	35.3200	0.100
*FTSE	7,337.950*	0.90000	0.010
*NIKKEI	28,725.47*	-135.15	-0.47
*HSI	24,254.860*	257.990	1.080
*SHANGHAI	3,673.040*	35.4700	0.980
VIX	20.370000	0.47000	2.360
*DAX	15,687.57*	0.48000	0.000

S&P500 MARKET MOVERS

TOP

NCLH	Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd	8.201%
CCL	Carnival Corp	5.514%
RCL	Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd	5.207%
LVS	Las Vegas Sands Corp	4.424%
UAL	United Airlines Holdings Inc	4.239%

BOTTOM

KR	Kroger Co	5.014%
NXPI	NXP Semiconductors NV	4.525%
KHC	Kraft Heinz Co	3.941%
BF.B	Brown-Forman Corp	2.747%
STX	Seagate Technology Holdings PLC	2.599%

SECURITIES

BONDS

NAME	YIELD	CHG
US 10-YR	1.5040	-0.0050
US 30-YR	1.8760	+0.0010
US 5-YR	1.2560	-0.0050
US 2-YR	0.6780	-0.0010
US 3-MO	0.0810	+0.0150
BUND 10-YR	-0.336	-0.0260
JPN 10-YR	0.0530	+0.0080
UK 10-YR	0.7370	-0.0400

FUTURES & COMMODITIES

NAME	LAST	CHG	%CHG
*OIL	72.040	-0.320	-0.44
*NAT GAS	3.7860	-0.029	-0.76
*GOLD	1,7840	-1.500	-0.08
*SILVER	22.285	-0.105	-0.47
*WHEAT	785.00	-9.500	-1.20
*COPPER	4.3490	-0.045	-1.02

CURRENCIES

NAME	LAST	CHG	%CHG
JPY/USD	0.8810	+0.001	+0.130
USD INDEX	96.090	+0.200	+0.20
USD/JPY	113.54	-0.1200	-0.110
GBP/USD	1.3190	-0.0020	-0.130
EUR/USD	1.1320	-0.0030	-0.230
USD/CAD	1.2670	+0.002	+0.180
AUD/USD	0.7160	-0.0010	-0.100

Analyst View
U.S. stocks investors were not too much deterred by the new Covid variant as the indexes notched higher for the third day consecutively and investors gained. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose over 34 points or 0.1%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were higher by 0.3% and 0.6%, respectively. This after the S&P 500 posted its best day since March on Tuesday.

Ticker	Security	Last	Change	Change %
I:DJI	DOW JONES AVERAGES	35754.75	+35.32	+0.10%
SP500	S&P 500	4701.21	+14.46	+0.31%
I:COMP	NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX	15786.987996	+100.07	+0.64%

The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey or JOLTS showed 11.03 million job openings in October, the highest number of openings since July, when businesses were looking to fill 11.1 million positions. It marked an increase from September when there were an upwardly revised 10.6 million open jobs.

Vaccine makers, In corporate news, shares of Pfizer rose after the company, along with its partner BioNTech said the third dose of their vaccine can ward against the variant.

Ticker	Security	Last	Change	Change %
PFE	PFIZER INC.	51.40	-0.32	-0.62%
BNTX	BIONTECH SE	291.94	-10.75	-3.55%

Commodities, Oil also ticked higher to the $72 per barrel level.

European Markets, European shares sustained a bullish trend across the board. The FTSE 100 Index rose by 0.03% to 7339.65, The DAX climbed up by 0.01% to 15,689.42 and the CAC 40 also rose by 0.17% to 7,026.38.

Asian market, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index gained 1.4%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.1% and China's Shanghai Composite index climbed 1.2%. Japan downgraded its growth estimate for the last quarter to minus 3.6% from an earlier reported contraction of 3.0%. The change reflected weaker consumer and public demand and trade and lower levels of private inventories.

SOURCE: CNBC
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