US stock retracted yesterday and the majority of Asian markets have followed suit this morning. Yesterday the dollar continued to weaken, treasury prices rose, and oil and gold both moved lower.

Today in the U.S is quadruple witching, meaning four key expirations, stock index futures and options, and stock futures and options, which is likely to put some volatility into the market. For much of the week, the CBOE volatility index has held below 24.

In the U.K, economic news of note will be the release of the M4 Money Supply data for August released at 8.30am.

The UK market and the European markets have opened, down a fraction today. U.S futures markets are pointing to a slightly negative start when their markets resume trading this afternoon. Futures currently forecast the Dow to open down circa 30 points, the Nasdaq and S&P are currently pointing to a flat start to trading.

Sources: Reuters: BBC: Bloomberg: Lawshare: Deutsche Bank (db): Proquote: Financial Times: Wall Street Journal: CLSA: Sharescope: Market News. Capital Economics: CNBC: Wikipedia: GaveKal:

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