- Market leader ARK Innovation ETF puts in stellar performance, gaining 8.31%; currently at $40.4
- Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% Friday
- Asia-Pacific markets are trending positively as ASX 200 skyrockets by 2.79%, reaching 7,158.
Friday's trading session saw to it that markets closed higher Friday; Nasdaq gained 1.88% and closed at 11,323. S&P 500 ended the session at 3,993 after a 0.92% gain.
Trading in the US will continue today in around 10 hours time, meanwhile Asia-Pacific session in progress; markets are rising as ASX 200 is up by 2.79%, hitting 7,158. European markets ended a mixed session Friday whilst FTSE withdraws to 7,318 (down 0.78%).
Friday's gains have given market bulls further impetus to expect strong macro data going forward, such as United States Core Retail Sales is projected to outperform its last figure with 0.5%. It previously stood at 0.1%; data will be released Wednesday. United States Producer Price Index is projected to outperform its last figure with 0.5%. It previously stood at 0.4%; data will be released tomorrow at 13:30 UTC.
Also worthy of note, as things stand, upcoming United States Crude Oil Inventories data is projected to fall short of market expectations with newly published data of 1.36 million, following on from the preceding figure of 3.92 million. New data is set to be published Wednesday.
While most stocks did well Friday, some did better than others as ARK Innovation ETF trades at $40.4 having gained 8.31%. IShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF (up 5.03%) is also performing well.
Friday's bullishness contained stock stragglers as iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF closed at $25.35 having dropped 0.04%.
EWH closed at $19.21 after gaining 8.9% Friday
IShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF lived up to expectations Friday by maintaining its set course — after finishing Thursday at $17.64, iShares, Inc. – iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF went up to $19.22 before paring its losses and closing at $19.21.
Continuing its recent sideways trend, iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF closed at $25.35 after a flat day Friday
Pointing in a similar direction, Friday's session was more of the same — iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF closed a flat day of trading at $25.35 Friday after ending Thursday at $25.36.