Morningstar Morning Research Update Friday, Dec 21, 2012
Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:52 am Press Release: Morningstar
21-Dec-2012
Overseas Market
Report Stocks moved higher as Republican, John
Boehner stated he was going to keep working on a fix to the
fiscal cliff.
Third-quarter GDP was revised upwards today
to 3.1% from 2.7%. Economists had expected a more modest
uptick. The Commerce Department now thinks that consumer
spending rose 1.6% in the quarter compared to the previous
estimate of 1.4%. GDP also looked better than previous
thought due to lower levels of exports, mainly due to lower
oil prices... Read More
Foreign Equities (21-Dec-2012 /
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Change
%
Change
Dow Jones
(US)
13312
60
0.45
S&P
500
1444
8
0.55
NASDAQ
3050
6
0.20
FTSE 100
Index
5958
-3
-0.05
DAX
30
7672
4
0.05
CAC
40
3667
2
0.06
Nikkei 225
(Japan)
10039
-121
-1.19
HKSE
22660
36
0.16
SSE Composite
Index
2168
6
0.28
BSE
Sensitive
19454
-22
-0.11
NZ
50
4075
52
1.30
Commodities
(21-Dec-2012 /
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Change
%
Change
Aluminium
2026
-22
-1.09
Copper
7743
-154
-1.96
Nickel
17502
-173
-0.98
Gold
1648
-21
-1.28
Silver
29.9
1.1
3.72
Oil - West Texas
crude
90.0
1.6
1.79
Lead
2305
-14
-0.63
Zinc
2037
-17
-0.82
Currency (21-Dec-2012 /
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Change
%
Change
$A vs
$US
1.0483
-0.0009
-0.09
$A vs
GBP
0.6440
0.0004
0.06
$A vs
YEN
88.47
-0.25
-0.28
$A vs
EUR
0.7916
0.0010
0.13
$A vs
$NZ
1.2563
-0.0026
-0.21
$US vs
Euro
0.7551
0.0016
0.21
$US vs
UK
0.6143
0.0010
0.16
$US vs
CHF
0.9115
0.0021
0.23
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