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HANG SENG INDEX (^HSI)
| Previous close | 18,736.44 |
| Open | 18,785.28 |
| Volume |
| Day's range | 18,530.82 - 18,841.22 |
| 52-week range | 14,597.31 - 25,050.59 |
| Avg. volume | 2,633,656,874 |
- Yahoo Finance UK
FTSE tumbles into red as pound and oil rise
Shares in oil producers were some of the biggest drags on the day, while the pound pushed higher against the dollar.
- Reuters
World stocks push pause ahead of U.S. payrolls
LONDON (Reuters) -World stocks stalled, Treasuries held on to price gains and the dollar was nursing heavy losses on Friday ahead of U.S. non-farm payrolls data, the next big test for investors looking for more signs of a rates policy shift from the Federal Reserve. Data overnight including falling U.S. job openings and contracting U.S. manufacturing activity, raised fresh hopes of easing cost pressure and added to evidence that Fed rate hikes may have cooled the economy. "The U.S. growth story is reasonably strong looking at December payrolls, business inventories and even the current trackings of U.S. GDP are better than average," said Rich Kelly, head of global strategy at TD Securities in London.
