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The sluggish flash PMI data and Richmond Fed data, has yields moving lower, the dollar lower and stocks higher.
Looking at the yield curve, the shorter end is lower as traders adjust to the surprise weakness and ponder does this ease the Feds (and the markets) anxiety about growth/inflation, just when things were tilting the other way?.
Looking at the major indices:
The small-cap Russell 2000 is leading the way with a gain of 4.63%
In a Forex:
GBPUSD: The GBPUSD moved above both its 100 and 200 hour MAs (blue and green lines on the chart below) at 1.2406 and 1.2448 respectively. The 38.2% of the April trading range is at 1.2455 and the next upside target needed to get to and through to increase the bullish bias.