Kayaking in the Cook Islands, 2019: Photo by H. Becker
A solid start to the trading week for Asian stocks, outside of Hong Kong, with the USD mixed against the majors as S&P futures start to gain. Bitcoin has jumped again on the weekend break, now back above the $19000 level, while gold has been relatively quite and unable to make any gains so far in the opening session, currently treading water at the $1834USD per ounce level:
The Shanghai Composite is up slightly going into the close, currently up 0.3% to 3359 points while in Hong Kong the Hang Seng Index has gone the other way, down nearly 0.6% to 26361 points. Japanese stock markets are re-engaging to the upside with the Nikkei 225 up 0.4% to 26737 points while the USDJPY pair is slowly pushing to get back above both trailing ATR resistance and the 104 handle but remains weak:
