Currencies

• EUR/USD The Euro declined against other currencies after rumors surfaced the earth that Greece will be exiting the EUROZONE. The decline stopped after Greece Finance Minister denied these reports.


• USD/JPY Good NFP number failed to raise the USD against the JPY. The JPY remains strong, technically. BoJ says that its recent policy has generated certain positive effects.


• GBP/USD The cable continued to rally. Technically, GBPUSD maybe heading towards 1.700.

Commodities

• Gold continued to drop after a strong NFP number. However, the decline which started on April 29th, showed some reversal, and Gold seems to be turning up again, on profit taking.

• Oil continued to experience the fall. After dropping from 113 to 94 USD a barrel, OILUSD is showing some consolidation.

Equities

• U.S.stocks The Dow closed in positive on Friday. Closing higher by 0.43%, driven by a good NFP number. Added jobs to the market helped to push the Equities higher. The S&P also closed up by 0.46%.


• European stocks closed in the red on Friday. FTSE, CAC and DAX all closed negative on news that Greece may leave the EuroZone.


• Asian stocks At the time of writing this report, Nikkei was down by 0.66%, Hang Seng was up by 0.50% and Shanghai was up by 0.30%

Sources: Bloomberg, FT