Major US stock indexes ended trading mostly in the red, which was caused by the fall of technology companies and a muted appetite for stocks after a surge in yields on Treasury bonds last week amid strong economic data.

Recall that the yield on 10-year US government bonds soared to seven-year highs, as strong labor market data heightened concerns that the Fed may begin raising its interest rates at a faster rate than expected.

Oil prices fell moderately, the reason for which was the expectation that part of Iranian oil exports would continue to flow to the market after the introduction of US sanctions, easing the load on supplies. Two companies in India, a major buyer of Iranian oil, ordered barrels in November, the Indian oil minister said.

Most of the components of DOW finished trading in positive territory (18 out of 30). The growth leader was Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA, + 2.26%). Outsider were shares of Visa Inc. (V, -2.39%).

Most sectors of the S & P recorded an increase. The utility sector grew the most (+ 1.1%), while the technological sector showed the largest decline (-1.1%)

At the time of closing:

Dow 26,486.78 +39.73 +0.15%

S & P 500 2,884.43 -1.14 -0.04%

Nasdaq 100 7,735.95 -52.50 -0.67%

• U.S. concerned about China currency depreciation - treasury

Investors shouldn't expect a strong dollar to stop pressuring commodities prices anytime soon, says Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings. Speaking at LME Week, Mr. Coulton said that after 2016, "the rise in commodities prices has net-net been positive for emerging-market growth, excluding China, and a trough in EM growth excluding China correlates to weak commodities prices." Both commodities and non-China EM economies may come under further pressure in the months ahead if the dollar doesn't weaken. "Don't imagine the dollar's strength will fade away anytime soon," Mr. Coulton says - via WSJ.

U.S. stock-index futures fell on Monday, still reeling from the aftershocks of a climb in the U.S. Treasury yields last week. The focus of investors' attention is gradually shifting to the Q3 earnings season, unofficially kicking off this Friday.

Global Stocks:

• The $7.5 billion deal would make GitHub Microsoft's largest acquisition since LinkedIn

(company / ticker / price / change ($/%) / volume)

General Electric (GE) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays

• $6.5B Returned Under Substantial Issuer Bid/tender Offer

• $2.5B Return of Cap and Shr Consolidation Expected to Be Completed in Nov

• Plans to Maintain $2B of Cash on Its Balance Sheet to Fund Focused Acquisitions

• Raises Dividend to 35c

• Has Purchased for Cancellation 138M Common Shrs at a Purchase Price of $47.00 a Shr

• Citizens Looked Beyond Bond Spread When They Vote

• Focus With Le Pen On Putting Jobs First

• Uncertainties about the fiscal policy stance in Italy and the automobile industry in Germany are depressing the sentiment, although this is not reflected in the German economic data.

• By international standards, the US economy remains strong. The assessment of the situation rises to an all-time high and raises investors' expectations of rising inflation rates and a restrictive central bank policy. Japan is at-tracting attention with a clear rise in the situation and expectations.

The economic development in the individual regions of the world continues to be uneven. Overall, however, the current assessments of the approximately 1,000 investors surveyed by sentix remain relatively relaxed. This is due not insignificantly to the very good assessment of the US economy, where we are once again measuring an all-time high in the current situation index. This is increasingly causing inflation fears among investors, which in turn should prompt the central banks to continue their restrictive monetary policy. This also seems to be one of the reasons why the majority of expectation indices remain slightly negative.

The Chinese Finance Minister said the country will adopt a more active financial policy, but it will not resort to a stream of strong stimulus policies, Xinhua reported.

Finance Minister Liu said that fiscal policy needs to be more forward-looking, flexible and efficient in order to play a larger role in boosting demand, restructuring the economy and promoting quality development.

Liu said that proactive financial policies will give priority to four sectors: reducing taxes and fees, improving weak ties, encouraging consumption and improving people's livelihoods.

In addition to the policy aimed at reducing taxes and fees, announced at the beginning of the year, China announced an increase in support for the real economy and technological innovation, which will help reduce the burden on enterprises by more than 1.3 trillion yuan (about $ 188.4 billion) this year.

He said that the ministry is working on more extensive measures to reduce taxes and fees, which, if implemented, will lead to the fact that the growth of budget revenues will remain low in the coming months.

The country's budget revenues rose in August by 4% year on year to 1.11 trillion yuan, slowing down from a 6.1 percent increase in July.

With the growth of the economy on a sustainable basis and an increase in tax revenues, China lowered the target budget deficit for 2018 to 2.6% of GDP, which is 0.4 percentage points less than in 2017.

The latest Caixin China Composite PMI data (which covers both manufacturing and services) showed that Chinese business activity expanded modestly at the end of the third quarter. At 52.1 in September, the Composite Output Index was little-changed from August's reading of 52.0, to signal that the rate of activity growth remained lacklustre compared to that seen earlier in 2018.

Latest data indicated that an improved service sector performance was broadly offset by softer manufacturing growth. Notably, the seasonally adjusted Caixin China General Services Business Activity Index picked up from 51.5 in August to 53.1, to signal the strongest increase in activity for three months. In contrast, manufacturing production rose at a marginal pace that was the weakest since October 2017

According to SECO surveys, at the end of September 2018, 106,586 unemployed people were enrolled in the Regional Employment Centers (RAV), 1,307 less than in the previous month. The unemployment rate remained at 2.4% in the month under review. Compared with the same month of the previous year, unemployment fell by 26,583 (-20.0%). Youth unemployment in September 2018 Youth unemployment (aged 15-24) decreased by 774 (-5.3%) to 13,724. Compared to the same month last year, this represents a decline of 3,985 people (-22.5%).

In August 2018, production in industry was down by 0.3% from the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis according to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In July 2018, the revised figure shows a decrease of 1.3% (primary -1.1%) from June 2018.

In August 2018, production in industry excluding energy and construction was down by 0.1%. Within industry, the production of capital goods decreased by 0.7%.The production of consumer goods was up by 1.4% and the production of intermediate goods showed an increase of 0.1%. Energy production was up by 1.3% in July 2018 and the production in construction decreased by 1.8%.

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1676 (560)

$1.1657 (408)

$1.1630 (88)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1514

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1463 (2966)

$1.1431 (2616)

$1.1397 (2519)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date November, 19 is 68719 contracts (according to data from October, 5) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1600 (4478);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3277 (983)

$1.3243 (777)

$1.3206 (314)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3114

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2975 (1738)

$1.2943 (1680)

$1.2909 (1986)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date November, 19 is 18714 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3500 (2254);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date November, 19 is 23569 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2850 (2041);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.26 versus 1.38 from the previous trading day according to data from October, 5.

* - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange bulletin (CME) is used for the calculation.

** - Open interest takes into account the total number of option contracts that are open at the moment.