After a back and forth battle the Hang Seng crawled up .1% today with defensive stocks outweighing
week second quarter earnings. Sands China dropped 4.9% closing at its lowest since December 20 th as
its parent corp, Las Vegas Sands Corp reported worse than expected earnings due to lower profits at
Casinos. Concerns over July revenue for the gambling sector push down SJM holdings, MGM China and
Wynn Macau 3.5, 3.4 and 3% respectively. The index’s largest gainer Li & Fung Ltd was up 3.75% on the
day.

The FTSEurofirst is beginning the day flat on mixed earnings reports. Unilever is the top gainer in Europe,
up 5.2% after not issuing profit warnings as its two main competitors have. Rolls Royce is up 4.8% as
it revealed a better than expected 7% rise in first half profit due to the airlines need to renew fleets
with more fuel efficient planes. Royal Dutch Shell and BP lost 3.6 and 1% respectively on lagging second
quarter earnings.

Italy’s market is up 3.7% and the Euro jumped 1% to 1.2274 as Mario Draghi promised to “do whatever
it takes to preserve the Euro.”

Nokia tossed a software project code named Meltemi, which was to compete with Google’s Android,
due to costs savings efforts.

Commodities are beginning with modest gains from crude and natural gas, gold is up .67% and silver
bucking the trend down .2%.

Contributer Chris Rygh is currently pursuing his MBA in Wisconsin and has a passion for the Market.
Comments can be directed to ryghcw19@uww.edu

Traders can look forward to playing Visa Inc. (V) and Zynga Inc.’s (ZNGA) earnings after the close. The earnings scheduled for tomorrow morning before the open include: Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, 3M Company (MMM), Kimberly-Clark Coproration (KMB), Panasonic Corp (PC), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), Siemens AG (SI), and Sprint Nextel (S).

David Cornes holds a degree in economics from the University of Montana.

WTI crude oil futures fell over $1.00 to trade at $87.37 after a positive crude inventories number this morning. Gold futures rose with the 6E gaining $23.30 to $1599.50 and 61 pipps to $1.2132 respectively.

David Cornes holds a degree in economics from the University of Montana.

AAPL blamed their fall in earnings on slowing demand in Western Europe and sales of the iPhone 4 and 4S in anticipation for the new model iPhone 5 due to be released later this fall or winter. Although Apple’s Q3 earnings were lower than expectations, they are still impressive. They reported an increase of 23% in sales from this time last year to $35 billion, about $2 billion less than analysts expectations. Quarterly net income gained 21% over the year to $8.8 billion for an EPS of $9.32. Analysts were expecting an EPS of $10.37.  In my opinion AAPL is a great buy when it reaches bottoms and that the release of the iPhone 5 will make record sales and accelerate growth.

David Cornes holds a degree in economics from the University of Montana.

The Hang Seng had a late rally after European markets opened slightly higher than expected, although
not enough to come off the day’s low finished down .1%. The telco industry was strong finishing up 5.6%
after Credit Suisse rated them as their top pick among Asian telcos. Shares of China’s second largest
home appliance retailer, GOME Electrical Appliances, tumbled 14.5% today after announcing they
expect a net loss for the first half of 2012.

The FTSEurofirst is up .2% after European Central Bank policy maker Ewald Nowotny made comments
to raise the prospect of a new bailout. This propped the Spanish IBEX up 1.8% and the Italian FTSE MIB
1.5%. Banking giants Santander rose 2.4% and UniCredit 3.4%. Deutsche bank went against the trend
losing 3.3% on a profit warning, leading to worries they may have to raise capital.

In the US the MBA composite index came in at -6.7% from a prior 7.1%. The purchase index is up 1%
compared to a previous loss of 1%. The 30 year rate, at 3.86%, is down 2 basis points for the week for a
new record low.

Commodities are set to begin the day mixed with crude and gold showing minor gains while natural gas
and silver are down.

Contributer Chris Rygh is currently pursuing his MBA in Wisconsin and has a passion for the Market.
Comments can be directed to ryghcw19@uww.edu

This morning the MBA Purchase Application index fell 3% while the refinance index
rose 2%. The New Home Sales report is due at 10:00am and the EIA Petroleum
status report is due at 10:30am.

The S&P 500 is down once again today at 0.90% while the 10-year treasuries are up
2.88%. Crude oil is also up at 0.20%. And for the first time in the past couple weeks
the dollar is down at the open at 0.41%.

As for earnings this week, the European crisis hit Ford hard, diminishing 25% of the
company’s sales. Ford only earned $0.26 per share, down from $0.57 at this time
last year. The company expects to lose $1 billion over the European crisis.

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