Financial Breakfast: Morning News Summary for December 28, 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

This is your Benzinga news summary and trader's outlook covering headlines from overnight and today's pre-market session.


The largest bond (physically) is New York Cable Railway, which measures approximately 2 feet by 3 feet including coupons, $1000 denomination dated 1884.

Benzinga's Top News

Domestic Pre-Market Trading

  • U.S. Equity Markets trade higher as Dow futures trade up about 30 points.
  • U.S. Dollar trades about 0.02% lower.
To see more pre-market news, click here.

Overseas Trading

  • European markets are mixed in afternoon trading. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.63%, Germany's DAX lost 0.02% and France's CAC 40 gained 0.51% on the session.
  • Asian stocks ended the session mixed. China's Shanghai added 0.19%, Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 0.2%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.59%
To see more overseas news, click here.

Upgrades/Downgrades

  • Oppenheimer upgrades VMware VWM to Outperform
To see more of today's upgrades, click here.

  • CLSA downgrades Paychex PAYX to Sell
To see more of today's downgrades, click here.

On the Economic Calendar

    No Major Economic Data
To see more economic news, click here

Earnings

    No Major Earnings this Morning
To see more earnings announcements, click here.

Corporate News

To see more corporate news, click here.

Commodities

  • Precious metals are trading lower, with gold posting losses of about 0.23%
  • Energy futures are trading lower, with crude oil posting losses of about 0.31%
  • Natural Gas futures are lower by about 0.57% and copper is trading higher by about 0.88%
To see more commodities news, click here.


Benzinga's Morning Radar

Technical Levels for Futures and Forex
Name Resistance-2 Resistance-1 Mid Pivot Support-1 Support-2
E-Mini Dow 12294 12256 12221 12183 12148
E-Mini S&P 500 1268 1264 1260 1256 1252
Gold 1606 1600 1595 1589 1584
Crude 103.20 102.23 100.81 99.84 98.42
Natural Gas 3.22 3.16 3.12 3.06 3.02
EUR/USD 1.3095 1.3082 1.3069 1.3056 1.3043
US Dollar Index 80.33 80.23 80.13 80.04 79.94


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