The major US indices are up for the 2nd consecutive day. Yesterday, the NASDAQ index soared by 3.43%. The S&P index increase by 2.65%. Today the border indices are tacking on additional gains of 2.25% or more.

A snapshot of the market currently shows

looking around other markets:

  • spot gold is up $5.65 or 0.35% at $1655
  • spot silver is up $0.21 or 1.15% at $18.85
  • WTI crude oil is trading at $84.55 or -1.06%
  • Bitcoin is trading at $19,638

in the US debt market:

  • 2 year yield 4.415%, -0.4 basis points
  • 5 year yield 4.191%, -4.6 basis points
  • 10 year yield 3.99%, -2.5 basis points
  • 30 year yield 4.027%, +1.1 basis point

In the forex market:

  • EURUSD is testing its high for the day and back above the 200 bar MA on the 4-hour chart at 0.9860. The pair is in a swing area that has a high at 0.9877. Get above that level and the bullish bias increases with the 0.9900 level as the next target (see daily chart below).
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EURUSD on the daily chart

The NZD is the strongest and the GBP is the weakest.

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The strongest to the weakest of the major currencies