Equities mixed after Wall Street ended mixed - 13.2.2025

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Todays’ Market Summary

The Dollar strengthening has reversed
The US stock index futures are up currently
Brent is edging down presently.
Gold prices are extending gains

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Global equity indexes are pointing in different directions currently after Wall Street closed mixed on Wednesday following hot inflation data. Tesla shares rose 2.44% outperforming market amid reports Chief Executive Elon Musk plans to spend the next four months working at the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, as he aims to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, Alphabet shares slid 0.88% on Wednesday.

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Forex news

Currency Pair	Change
EUR/USD	+0.5%
GBP/USD	+0.5%
USD/JPY	-0.1%
AUD/USD	+0.1%

The Dollar strengthening has reversed today. The live dollar index data show the ICE US Dollar index, a measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of six rival currencies, ended 0.1% higher on Wednesday.

EUR/USD slowed its advancing while GBP/USD ended flat yesterday as European Central Bank voting member Robert Holzmann told that the global tariffs enacted by US President Donald Trump had increased inflationary risks in the euro zone and a larger 50 basis point rate cut “would not be a good decision.” Both Pound and euro are higher against the dollar currently. USD/JPY accelerated its advancing while AUD/USD reversed its climbing on Wednesday with both the yen and the Australian dollar higher against the Greenback currently.

Stock Market news

Indices	Change
DJIA	+0.1%
Nikkei 225	+0.4%
Hang Seng (HSI)	-1.2%
Australia 200	-0.1%

The US stock index futures are up currently ahead of unemployment benefits and producer prices reports at 14:30 CET. US stocks ended mixed on Wednesday with the three main US stock benchmarks recording daily returns in a range from -0.5% to 0.03% while Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee that policymakers were in no hurry to make more interest rate cuts after data showed US consumer prices rose more than expected in January.

European stock indexes are mixed currently after closing marginally higher yesterday. Asian stock indexes futures are mixed currently with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index leading losses while Japanese producer price index inflation data came in stronger than expected in January.

Commodity Market news

Commodities	Change
Brent Oil	-0.2%
WTI Crude Oil	-0.3%

Brent is edging down presently. Prices ended over 2% lower on Wednesday as president Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform he and Putin had "agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now." The US oil benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures lost 2.66% and are lower currently. Brent crude slid 2.36% to $75.18 a barrel on Wednesday.