Dance And Keep Laughing Although The Market Is Not As Beautiful As It Looks

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 Equity moves saw a number of major indexes around the world record gains driven by growth stocks giant United States (US) as Treasury yields eased ahead of the Jackson Hole Symposium.


Investors' wait to hear Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell's announcement regarding the implementation of tightening policies to control inflation will be answered late tonight's session local time.


Looking at the situation, there are 2 possible implementations of interest rate increases which are 50 basis points or 75 basis points which will be determined by Powell at the Jack Hole Symposium later.


That streak, Wall Street closed 'freshly green' with the Dow Jones up 0.98% at 33,291.78, the S&P 500 reaching 1.41% at 4,199.12 and the Nasdaq Composite adding 1.67% at 12,639.27.


In the European zone, the STOXX index rose 0.30 while the excellent performance of US stocks pushed MSCI's gauge of global shares up 1.26%.



In the Asian region, Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 0.81%, Topix added 0.45% while South Korea's Kospi advanced 0.53% and Kosdaq gained 0.49%.


MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan traded 0.13% higher.


On the opposite side, the benchmark US 10 note yield was down 6.7 basis points at 3.037%.


Currency trends saw the greenback slip 0.2% against the rest with the Euro up 0.05% at $0.9974.


For commodities, the price of oil traded down when there is a possibility that the global market for Iran's oil exports is blocked in addition to the rate increase factor.


For that reason Brent crude fell $1.88 at $99.34 while WTI oil lost $2.37% at $92.52.

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