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May 19, 2023
- Yesterday's star of the day ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas appreciates 17.08% while outperforming its peers
- Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% yesterday
- Asia-Pacific markets are up as ASX 200 is up by 0.61%, hitting 7,280.8.
Before today's session: markets closed higher yesterday, as Nasdaq closed the day at 12,700, having gained 1.51%. S&P 500 gained 0.94% and closed at 4,198.
US markets are set to open today in around 7 hours. In the meantime, Asia-Pacific session in progress; markets are rising as ASX 200 ascends to 7,280.8 (up 0.61%). Upbeat European markets ended yesterday higher as DAX is up by 1.33%, hitting 16,163.
Deere & Company & Catalent Inc have released their earnings reports with Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation & Royal Bank Of Canada are set to publish their respective reports as scheduled.
Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as United States Initial Jobless Claims beat the 254,000 projections, with 242,000.
Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States Existing Home Sales (Apr) released yesterday at 14:00 UTC with a figure of 4.28 million, while the previous figure was 4.43 million. United States Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (May) came out at -10.4, while a consensus of analysts was expecting -19.8.
Also worthy of note, United States Fed Chair Powell speech scheduled to come out today at 15:00 UTC.
While most assets did well yesterday, some did better than others as ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas trades at $3.77 having gained 17.08%. United States Natural Gas Fund LP (up 8.41%) is also performing well.
Yesterday's bullishness contained stragglers as iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF closed at $25.35 having dropped 0.04%.
IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF has been pretty quiet for the last a month, trading mostly flat and moving by only 0.02 cents on average.
United States Natural Gas Fund LP has increased a total of 51 cents over the past 6 days, with yesterday's session contributing to the uptrend.
