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MSCI Asia ex-Japan steady, Nikkei opens down 0.1%; dollar off highs but steady
Asian shares steadied on Friday and the dollar took a breather after its recent broad rally spurred some profit taking, but a fresh batch of data suggesting the US economy may be picking up momentum underpinned investor sentiment.

The MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan index was barely changed and Japan’s Nikkei opened down 0.1% after rising to an 8-month high on Thursday.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Thursday closed above 1,400 for the first time since June 2008, having risen about 11.5% this year without a major pullback. Some analysts have called for a consolidation while others see ongoing momentum.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares finished 0.35% higher, and up 10% this year to nearly recover from last year’s 10.7% drop.

“The market is still going through a relief rally more than chasing a new trend on global growth,” Barclays Capital analysts said. “We are getting into profit-taking territory,” they added.

The number of Americans claiming new jobless benefits fell back to a four-year low last week, while the New York Federal Reserve said on Thursday its Empire State general business conditions index rose to its highest since June 2010 last month. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank’s business activity index also showed manufacturing kept growing in the region this month.

“The New York Fed, Philadelphia Fed and the jobless claims data overnight were again favourable, so we can expect to see strong support for markets,” said Yumi Nishimura, senior technical analyst at Daiwa Securities.

The dollar stood at ¥83.40, retreating from a 11-month high of 84.17 touched on Thursday, and also off a two-month high against a basket of major currencies of 80.738 hit the previous day. The US currency steadied against the euro at $1.3080, easing from Thursday’s one-month high of $1.3004.

The US economy shows encouraging signs of early expansion but still faces tough challenges that call for measures to create jobs to help restore fiscal sustainability, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday.

Oil rebounded after a sharp decline on Thursday when Reuters, citing two British sources, reported that Britain decided to cooperate with the United States in an agreement to release oil from government-controlled strategic reserves.

US crude was up 0.4% to $105.50 a barrel on Friday, after settling down 0.3% at $105.11 a barrel. US crude futures fell to a session low of $103.78 on Thursday. Brent crude fell 1.14% to settle at $123.55 a barrel on Thursday.

Asian credit markets were slightly firmer early on Friday, with the spread on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment-grade index narrowing by 2 basis points.

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EU parliament gives final approval to short-selling law. European Commission to debate sovereign ratings “blackouts”
The European Union pushed ahead with its regulatory crackdown on Tuesday by giving the green light to curbs on trading sovereign-debt related derivatives at the heart of the euro zone crisis.

The bloc’s financial services chief Michel Barnier will also unveil a measure at 1400 GMT to inject competition into the credit ratings sector dominated by the Big Three: Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings.

Many EU policymakers are keen to push ahead with the new rules, saying a ratings downgrade of Greek sovereign debt in 2010 made it more expensive and harder to mount the country’s first bailout package.

The mistaken downgrade by S&P of France’s banking industry system will reinforce the EU’s determination to regulate agencies more closely, Barnier said last week.

The draft law, part of a broad regulatory push prompted by the financial crisis, will propose a temporary “blackout” on sovereign debt ratings in exceptional circumstances.

The “blackouts” element has proved divisive, and Barnier was due to meet with fellow European commissioners at 1200 GMT to thrash out its scope in the draft law as member states like Britain mount a last - minute effort to scrap the provision.

EU states and the European Parliament, which is meeting in Strasbourg this week, will have the final say on the measure, with some changes likely.

Short-selling:

Parliament on Tuesday voted by 507 to 25 in favour of an EU law that restrict “naked” or uncovered selling of shares and sovereign debt. This refers to when a seller has made no prior arrangements to borrow the security.

EU states have already given the nod to the law, which was jointly agreed with parliament and is due to take effect within a year.

It also bans naked sovereign credit default swaps (CDS), where there is no ownership of the underlying government debt the CDS contract “insures” against default.

Policymakers want to crack down on what they see as speculation by hedge funds and others betting on falls in euro zone bond prices.

“The parliament has successfully fought for very strict conditions for short-selling to contain destructive speculation. The new transparency rules will help stabilise financial markets,” Markus Ferber, a German member of parliament’s centre-right party, said.

The draft law on ratings agencies, the EU’s third measure to regulate the industry since the financial crisis began in 2007, will avoid trying to create an EU answer to the US dominance of the sector.

Instead, it will seek to inject more competition by requiring users of ratings, such as companies and banks, to “rotate” or switch agencies on a regular basis so that some of the 10 or so smaller agencies registered in Europe, such as Euler Hermes​, can pick up more business.

Measured by profits, Microsoft trounces Apple and Google. In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion, versus Apple’s $3.25 billion and Google’s $1.8 billion. But, dear investors, where is the love for this beaten-down company?

Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s vice president for corporate communications, recently tried a new tack to win respect. In a June 25 blog post titled “Microsoft by the Numbers,” he compared Microsoft’s record in various business categories with that of competitors.

Unfortunately, by trying to argue that Microsoft is doing well in all areas, including those dominated by Apple and Google, Shaw fails to show Microsoft at its best. Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft’s very best story – its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to “the enterprise.”

In a conversation this month, Shaw explained what prompted him to write his post. “I noticed some pretty critical conversations going on in the technosphere among the technorati,” he said. “There’s a gap between that conversation – ‘the company is not doing well, period’ – and what the company is actually doing.”

In the blog, he writes, “With Windows 7, Office 2010, Bing, Xbox 360, Kinect, Windows Phone 7, in our cloud platform, and many other products, services and happy customers, 2010 is shaping up as a huge year for us.”

By encompassing just about every product category under the sun – and then calling out Apple and Google, of all targets – Shaw draws attention to Microsoft’s weak spots.

Bing, its search engine, attracted 21.4 million new users in one year, Shaw says. Very well, but he does not mention the following: in 2007, the company’s online services group lost $604 million; in 2008, $1.2 billion; and in 2009, the year of Bing’s introduction, $2.25 billion.