Over the last week, the USD has fallen against most other majors, and only gained against the JPY and the CHF as carry trades have picked up the pace again.  Both the ISM Manufacturing and Non-Manufaturing Indices have showed better than forecasted figures, but the ISM Prices Paid showed weaker than forecasted figures, telling us that the growth in the US i picking up a tad, while inflation pressures eases.
 
The S&P 500 added 0.3 percent to 1530.44 Friday last week. The Dow average increased 0.3 percent to 13,611.68. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.4 percent to 2666.51. For the week, the S&P 500 climbed 1.8 percent, the Dow average gained 1.5 percent and the Nasdaq composite added 2.4 percent.

Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index gained 0.3 percent to 398.41 as of 11:24 a.m. in London. National benchmarks gained in all of the 18 western European markets, except Spain. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 and France's CAC 40 added 0.2 percent. Germany's DAX rose 0.4 percent. The Stoxx 50 added 0.3 percent, as did the Euro Stoxx 50, a measure for the euro region.

Jorge Manuel Gerivaz added more profits this week and is now confortable in the lead with gains of 242%, followed by Mr. Doleschall from Hungary with 154%. Among the top 10 of WTI eight participants have now gains over 100%. Closing the ranking of participants with gains over 100% is Slovenian leader Lan with 107.81%