USA

Commodities

• Gold Futures (Aug): $1,620/oz, up $1.70 from $1,618/oz
• Oil Futures (WTI LSC Sep – NY trading): $89.78/barrel, down $0.35 from $90.13/barrel

Treasury yields

Quite volatile over the last few days!

• 30-year: 2.58%, down 4 points from 2.62%
• 10-year: 1.50%, down 4 points from 1.54%
• 5-year: 0.61%, down 5 points from 0.66%

Share market indices

• S+P 500: 1,385 -0.05%
• DJIA: 13,073 -0.02%
• NASDAQ: 2,946 -0.41%

Tech stock news

• “Apple today announced that downloads of OS X Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history … Facebook integration will be available in an upcoming software update to Mountain Lion.” [More]

Tech stock price movements

• Substantial rises (more than 2.0%)
  • Yelp [NYSE:YELP]: up 5.69% to $20.62
  • Nokia [NYSE:NOK]: up 2.84% to $2.17
• Substantial falls (more than 2.0%)
  • Salesforce [NYSE:CRM]: down 4.27% to $125.87
  • Facebook [NASDAQ:FB]: down 2.34% to $23.15
  • Groupon [NASDAQ:GRPN]: down 9.09% to $6.90
  • Micron Technologies [NASDAQ:MU]: down 2.63% to $6.11
  • NetFlix [NASDAQ:NFLX]: down 2.00% to $57.75
  • Palo Alto Networks [NYSE:PANW]: down 3.51% to $55.00
  • RedHat [NYSE:RHT]: down 3.67% to $53.67
  • VMware [NYSE:VMW]: down 3.48% to $92.37
  • Zynga [NASDAQ:ZNGA]: down 2.43 to $3.01

PORTFOLIO

Portfolio index

Apple has helped our index outperform markets today.
The AUD continues to rise, but it did not stop our AUD-denominated index from rising today.
That’s worth a smile.

Index values

• Portfolio Index (USD): 1.064 +1.08%
• AUD 1.00 = USD 1.0551 +0.26%
• Portfolio Index (AUD): 1.009 +0.82%

NASDAQ

• Apple [AAPL] $595.03 +1.68%
• Amazon [AMZN] $236.09 -0.51%
• Google [GOOG] $632.30 -0.42%

NYSE

• Linkedin [LNKD] $104.18 +0.73%
• VMware [VMW] $92.37 -3.48%