Despite positive economic and earnings news, stocks have been soft overnight and into this morning with US Index futures down 0.4%-0.5% so far today, along with the Dax and FTSE. Investors appear to be more interested in what two Fed
Building in yesterday’s moderate gains of about 0.3% for US large-cap indices (although the small cap Russell 2000 finished down 0.8%), world equity markets have been climbing overnight and into this morning. In Asia Pacific trading, the Nikkei gained 1.5%