2nd November 2021 Morning Report

Tuesday 2nd November 2021

U.S. stocks markets rallied on Monday with the major indices all up at records highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.15%, while the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite index rose 0.07% and 0.43%, respectively.

Other key overseas markets were mixed with Britain’s FTSE 100 up 0.88%, Germany’s DAX 30 rising 0.8% and France’s CAC 40 gaining 1.03%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 2.61% after the ruling party maintained its majority in Sunday’s parliamentary election. The Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.88% and China’s Shanghai Composite declined 0.08%.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil jumped eighty cents to $84.37 a barrel and gold rose $9.90 to $1,793.80 an ounce. The 10 - year US bond yield fell to 1.563%.

Morning Report 2 November 2021

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