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The whole world is not so peace, don't believe the problem can solve soon

What to do now? Choose some stocks you like there and figure out how much money you can to invest? Long term and short term amount.

Then wait for the charge in March. Be patient!

17 Feb 2009

US Market

The Dow open at 7845 and close at 7552 –297.81 (-3.79%)

Sector performance (% change on day): Financials (-9.82%), Tech (-4.54%), Health Care (-2.02%), Consumer Staples (-1.75%), Consumer Discretionary (-4.01%), Industrials (-4.77%), Energy (-6.31%), Telecom (-4.26%), Materials (-4.67%), Utilities (-4.90%).
The EUR roll down from last night high 1.2672 to 1.2560 low at 7:20am and around 1.26002 at 4:56pm. The EUR is weak because of the risk on the Weak Eastern European economy

The GBP is in range trade around 1.4300 to 1.4150 and at 4:57 pm the rate is 1.4167

The AUD is weak and moving down from previous day 0.65 to early morning 0
+0.6337 and around 0.6405 at 4:59pm

The JPY is weaker and rolling three time to 92.60 from 91.59 and at 4:59pm the rate is 92.43.

The Gold price is Feb is 971.8 and Mar is 970 at 5:02 pm
The Crude Oil March is 34.93and April is 38.54 at 5:02pm

Japan Market
The Nikkei open at 7539 and closed at 7534 –111.07(-1.45%)

UFJ closed at 437 –14 previous 451
Fast Retailing closed at 10040 previous 10480 (-4.19%)
Canon closed at 2315 previous 2365 -50(-2.11%)
Toyota closed at 3060 previous 3010 +50 (+1.66%)

HK Market

The HS Index open at 12783 and closed at 13016 -70 (+0.55%) the turnover volume is 428M previous 417M .

The 005 closed at 56.7 previous 57.5 (-1.39%) turnover 43.7M previous is 30.589M
The 3988 closed at 2.14 previous 2.08 0.06(+2.885%) turnover 627M previous is 591M
The 1398 closed at 3.37 previous 3.37 (0%) turnover 347M previous day is 338M

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China market
The Shanghai Market opened at 2271 and closed at 2209 with high volume 1352M previous day 1692M previous close 2319

The BOC RMB3.28 previous day RMB3.46 –5.21%
The ICBC RMB3.84 previous day RMB4.01 –4.24%

Release Reports

International –US Time
12:00 a.m. JPN: Dec Indexes of Business Conditions, revision
12:00 a.m. JPN: Jan Steel Production
4:30 a.m. UK: Feb Agents' Summary of Business Conditions
4:30 a.m. UK: Dec Average weekly earnings
5:00 a.m. GER: Q1 Ifo World Economic Climate
5:00 a.m. EU: Dec Construction output
6:00 a.m. UK: Feb CBI Industrial Trends Survey, Total Order Book Balance Expected: -46 Previous: -43
8:30 a.m. CAN: Dec Wholesale Trade Previous: -1.6%

US – US Time
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
7:00 a.m. MBA Mortgage Application Refinance Index for Feb 13: Previous: -30.3%.
7:45 a.m. ICSC Chain Store Sales Index For Feb 14: Previous: Unch.
8:30 a.m. Jan Housing Starts: Expected: -5.5%. Previous: -15.5%.
8:30 a.m. Jan Import Prices: Expected: -1.3%. Previous: -4.2%.
8:55 a.m. Redbook Retail Sales Index For Feb 14: Previous: +0.7%.
9:15 a.m. Jan Industrial Production: Expected: -1.7%. Previous: -2.0%.
9:15 a.m. Jan Capacity Utiliztion: Expected: 72.3%. Previous: 73.6%.
2:00 p.m. Jan FOMC Minutes
4:30 p.m. API Oil Industry Report For Feb 13

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