By Varinder Bansal, Research Analyst at CNBC-TV18
Global markets gained as oil price volatility settled down, but headline risk related to Middle East and North Africa region remained on Friday.
Alert - Taiwan is shut today US Economic News 4Q GDP revised downward growth of 2.8% after advance reading showed a 3.2% growth while market expected growth of 3.3% February consumer sentiment survey was at 77.5, best reading since January 2008 Currencies Dollar was up 78 bps versus Euro at 1.371 Yen rose 22 bps versus USD at 81.71 Commodities CRB Commodity Index was up 1.6%, best single-session performance in more than a month Crude Oil went up 0.7% at USD 97.97/barrel Natural gas was up 3.5% at USD 4.01 per MMBtu Gold prices ended down fractionally lower at USD 1409.7/ounce Silver was down 0.5% at USD 33.01/ounce. Data to watch Monday: Personal income and spending, Chicago purchasing managers index, pending home sales Tuesday: Auto sales, ISM manufacturing index, construction spending; Fannie/Freddie reform hearing before House financial services committee; and Bernanke's semi-annual report on monetary policy to Congress Wednesday: Mortgage applications, Challenger job-cut report, ADP employment report, oil inventories, Federal Reserve's Beige Book Thursday: Chain store sales, ECB announcement, jobless claims, productivity and costs, ISM non-manufacturing index, natural gas inventories Friday: Non-farm payrolls report, factory orders; Federal Budget Deadline GLOBAL WEEKLY RECAP
| Index | Week | Year |
| XETRA DAX | -3.30% | 3.90% |
| Philippines | -3.00% | -11.00% |
| Nikkei 225 | -2.90% | 2.90% |
| Sensex | -2.80% | -13.70% |
| Taiwan | -2.80% | -4.20% |
| Hang Seng | -2.50% | -0.10% |
| Kospi | -2.50% | -4.30% |
| CAC | -2.10% | 7.00% |
| Dow | -2.10% | 4.80% |
| All Ordinaries | -2.00% | 1.60% |
| Singapore | -2.00% | -5.20% |
| Malaysia | -1.90% | -2.00% |
| NASDAQ | -1.90% | 4.80% |
| Indonesia | -1.70% | -7.00% |
| S&P 500 | -1.70% | 4.90% |
| FTSE 100 | -1.30% | 1.70% |
| Thailand | -1.00% | -4.50% |
| China | -0.70% | 2.50% |
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