David joined the FT in 2011 as a Marjorie Deane fellow. He covered emerging markets, equities and currencies before making the jump over to FT Alphaville in May 2012.
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Joseph joined FT Alphaville way back in March 2010. He likes all the politically and legally fiddly bits of finance. He also likes credit, rates, global macro, tail risk, and all that stuff. (You should email him story ideas. He’ll take anything.)
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| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 20 2013 14:34 |
6,726 | +3.18 | +0.1% | 6,740 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 20 2013 14:30 |
1,249 | +0.43 | +0.0% | 1,251 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 17 2013 05:00 |
1,667 | +17.00 | +1.0% | 1,667 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 20 2013 14:09 |
1.29 | 0.00 | +0.3% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 20 2013 14:35 |
104.33 | -0.31 | -0.3% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 20 2013 08:47 |
1,348 | -16.90 | -1.2% | 1,795 |
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