The main stock exchanges in Asia and the Pacific moved in no particular order, with Tokyo (+0.9%) driven by the decline in the yen, which reached its lowest level against the dollar since 1990.
Futures for Europe (decreasing) and US price lists (positive) are mixed while awaiting consumer confidence in France and the Eurozone.
Also arriving are the minutes of the latest meeting of the Bank of England and the mortgage requests and weekly crude oil inventories from the USA.
Shanghai is down (-1.26%), Taiwan is positive (+0.37%), Seoul is little moved (-0.07%), Sydney is up (-0.51%).
Hong Kong (-1.26%), Mumbai (+0.76%) and Singapore (+0.41%) are still open.
The spread between BTPs and German 10-year Bunds rises to 129.7 points, with the Italian annual yield falling by 2.4 points to 3.62% and the German one by 2.5 points to 2.32%.
The dollar rose to 0.92 euros and 151.71 yen, stable at 0.79 pounds.
Crude oil is falling (WTI -0.97% to 80.83 dollars per barrel), gas is rising (+0.73% to 27.33 euros per MWh), while both gold is falling (-0.84% to 2,179 dollars per ounce) and steel ((-1.32% to 3,502 dollars per ton).
On the Tokyo stock exchange, the stocks of the major exporters are in the spotlight, favored by the decline in the yen. In particular, Sanyo (+4.38%) is running Casio (+2.29%), Sharp (+2.09%), Suzuki (+4.66%), Nissan (+1.86%) and Honda (+0.96%) Cautious Toyota (+0 ,12%).
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