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Imports fell almost 1.5% as a fall in demand for foreign oil offset³ a record-level of imported cars. The figures are the latest sign of a stronger American economy. 

 

America's biggest bank JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay almost two billion dollars to the victims of the massive Ponzi Scheme in the United States. The banking⁴ giant has agreed to pay the biggest penalty in history to settle charges that it failed to report suspicious activity relating to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme. 

 

Modoff's serving a 150-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2009 of defrauding⁵ thousands of investors⁶ of more than 60 billion dollars. 

 

Let's have a quick look at the market.

 

Wall Street is trading high at the close. The Dow's gaining 123 points. The Nasdaq grows over one percent. And the S&Q 500 climded more than half a percent. In London, the FTSE was up a third of a percent. 

 

To commodity prices.

 

West Texas Crude is trading at 93 US dollars a barrel. Tapis Crude is trading at 113 US dollars a barrel. And gold is worth 1232 US dollars an ounce.

 

Let's look at the Australian dollar: 89.2 US cents, 66 Euro cents and 54 pence sterling⁷.

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