NASDAQ index leading the way
The three major indices are higher but off premarket levels in early US trading. A snapshot of the market currently shows:
- Dow industrial average up 234 points or 0.69% at 34725
- S&P index up 46 points or 1.01% at 4612.91
- NASDAQ index up 157 points or 1.01% at 15695
The small-cap Russell 2000 index is up 36 points or 1.66% at 2235.26.
In other markets as US stock trading gets underway:
- Spot gold is up at $13 at $1787
- Spot silver is down $0.11 at $22.69
- WTI crude oil futures are trading at $60.41
- Bitcoin is trading up at $58,475 near highs for the day
in the US debt market,
- 2 year yield is trading at 0.591% +6.5 basis points
- 5 year yield is at 1.204%, up 5.8 basis points
- 10 year at 1.480%, up 3.9 basis points
- 30 year 1.821%, +3.5 basis points
IN the forex market, the NZD is the strongest of the majors while the CHF is the weakest.
