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Published in TZ Latest News 14 July, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Futures Levitate As Portugal Troubles Swept Under The Rug

Futures took off earlier today, driven by a round of risk on exhuberance starting in Asia, where bourses were up around a third of a percent this morning. Gains are being led by the Shanghai Composite (+1%), Nikkei (+0.9%), HSCEI (+0.5%) and KOSPI (+0.3%). The Indonesian rupiah is down 0.6% today after the country’s central bank said that the current account deficit widened to around 4% in Q2, compared with around 2% in the prior quarter. The Singaporean dollar is also slightly weaker (-0.1%) after Singapore reported a weaker than expected Q2 GDP number (-0.8% QoQ saar vs +2.4% expected).

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