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Agreed jaDEB, markets acting very boring and in a predictable pattern.

Dow +0.06%, S&P +0.24%, Nas +0.55%

Eco Calendar:

08:00 Ger GDP exp 2.3% actual 2.5%
10:00 Ger Ifo Business Climate
16:00 US New Home Sales

T40 @ +14 pips 8:45

VIX 12.03 +1.01%

Moon’s F&G  31 Fear

Asia Pacific: 8:03am / Tokyo 3:02pm

Nikkei closed +0.9%
Hang Seng flat
Shanghai +0.3%
Aus +0.3%

Alsi +0.49% @ 49 891, T40 +0.47% 44 840

New highs Advhlth, Grandparade, Sabmiller, Netcate, Medclin, Remgro

Telkom offered to buy BCX for $256mil, TLK -0.84%, BCX +9.06% now.

ALSI up +0.06% @ 49 648, T40 +0.16 % @ 44 629.

New highs Advhlth, Santam, Medclinic, Netcare, Bats, flu season or what?

Rand firmer after higher than expected inflation data yesterday, interest rate increase expected this week.

Dow ended last night +0.97%, Nas +0.86%, S&P +0.81%, futures up on Chinese data.

VIX @ 11.91 -8.10%, T40 @ +275 pips @ 8:11am

Today Asia Pacific 1:48 in Tokyo:

Nikkei +2.3%
Hang Seng +0.7% 
Shanghai +0.4%
ASX +1.1%

All these happy-chappies boosted by China’s better-than-expected manufacturing data earlier this morning (3:45am), prev & , expected 48.1, actual 49.7.  Also Bank of China’s pumping of 120 billion Yuan ($19.2 billion) into interbank markets this week, all in effort to stabilize market sentiment.

Eco Calendar:

09:30 German PMI, expect 54.0
10:30 GB GDP (YoY) exp 3.1% (QoQ) exp 0.8%
15:00 SA Interest Rate Decision, prev and exp 5.50% (not anymore I guess)
16:00 US Existing home sales

SA retail sales (YoY) came in @ 1.0, expected 2.0, previous 2.2, ignorance is blizzzzz.

Alsi -0.08% @ 49 199, T40 @ -0.11% @ 44 086.

New highs Grandparade, Omnia, Supergrp, Firstrand, Advtech, Sabvest and intraday-high Rbplat, Anglo, Advhlthl.

New low Abil -6.67% @ 799

Asia-Pacific @ 7:05am local 1:05pm Hong Kong:

Nikkei Average -0.3%
Hang Seng +0.9%
Shanghai flat
ASX -0.1%

Earning today from Tencent & Sony

VIX @ 12.13 -0.82%, T40 +0.09% 41 pips atm

Eco Calendar:

08:00 German CPI
10:30 GB Claimant Count Change & Unemployment Rate exp 6.8%
11:30 GB BoE Carney & Inflation report
13:00 SA Retail sales, prev 2.2% exp 2.0%
14:30 US PPI

Obviously more subdued than yours, but I'm happy for you! ;-)

Shame O, stay strong.

US ended with Dow +.20%, Nas -0.41%, S&P -0.12%

Mittal reported 1Q net loss narrowed, supported by higher steel and iron ore shipments. (Closed SA +5.96% @ 4000)

Asia-Pacific 1:26 Hong Kong time:

Nikkei +0.2%
Hang Seng -0.1%
Shanghai -0.6%
ASX -0.3%
Kospi +0.2%
Taiex -0.5%

Earlier today Chinese CPI (YoY) came in @ 1.8%, exp 2.0%, prev 2.4% and German Trade balance expected 16.6B came in @ 14.8B.

Eco Calendar:

10:30 GB Manufacturing Production (MoM) prev 1.0%, exp 0.3%
10:30 GB Trade balance prev -9.09B exp -9.00B

Diarize:

Wednesday next week: Tencent Earnings

Moon’s F&G @ 29 ‘Fear’, worse than previous close @ 34 ‘Fear’

Ukraine rebels ignore Putin call to delay self-rule vote.

Alsi ended 49 026, T40 43 900 (+0.12%), Mr Price up on trading update (+4.84% @16775), Clover buys Dairybell’s yoghurt & milk units.

New highs MrPrice, Nedcor, MTN, Medclin, Bidvest, Firstrand, Sasol, OldMutual, Brait.

No new lows.

T40 @ -98 pips atm