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Today's Headlines Markets Rally on Supportive U.S. Data Supportive U.S. data of late has helped bring some of the optimism in markets, but the mood is markedly less ebullient than witnessed during the previous sessions, when better-than-expected Chinese and American factory data powered a wholesale rush into stocks. Thursday’s data out of the U.S., including weekly initial jobless claims, retail sales updates, and factory orders and pending home sales for July have also been well received. These reports have helped to cap, for now, fears about a US 'double-dip', and leant credence, in the eyes of many, to September’s nascent rally. That said, many traders may be reluctant to enter fresh positions ahead of Friday’s non-farm payrolls data. Previous Headlines More »   Market Report   Overnight Releases*   Releases Today*   No Key Closing Levels Last Previous 1 SGD 3 month SOR Fixing 0.31% 0.31% 2 SGD 6 month SOR Fixing 0.48% 0.46% 3 2 Year US Treasury Yield 0.50% 0.49% 4 10 Year US Treasury Yield 2.63% 2.57% 5 30 Year US Treasury Yield 3.72% 3.64% 6 EUR/USD 1.2825 1.2809 7 USD/YEN 84.28 84.44 8 AUD/USD 0.9110 0.9117 9 DJIA 10320 10269 10 WTI Crude Oil (US$) 75.02 73.91 11 Baltic Dry Index 2835 2741 12 Gold Spot (US$/oz) 1250.95 1244.30 Market Report   Overnight Releases*   Releases Today*   No Economic Report/Events Expected Actual 1 Nonfarm Productivity -1.9% -1.8% 2 Initial Jobless Claims 475K 472K 3 Continuing Claims 4450K 4456K 4 Factory Orders 0.2% 0.1% 5 Pending Home Sales MoM -1.0% 5.2% Market Report   Overnight Releases*   Releases Today*   No Economic Report/Events Expected 1 Change in Nonfarm Payrolls -105K 2 Change in Private Payrolls 40K 3 Change in Manufacturing Payrolls 10K 4 Unemployment Rate 9.6% 5 ISM Non-Manufacturing Composite 53.2 View full report* »

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