OREANDA-NEWS. April 13, 2012. The US indices mostly rose on Thursday. S&P 500 Index added 1.38% while Russell was up by 1.51% with Basic Materials (+2.79%), Oil&Gas (+2.06%) as the leaders. Put/call ratio was at 1.32 and 90-110% skew was at 10.58. Advance/Decline ratio was at 469/27.

Google positive earnings report drove stocks higher despite mixed economic statistics.

Initial jobless claims went up to 380K vs consensus estimates of 355K.

PPI rose 2.8% annually, below consensus estimates of a 3.1% rise.

Trade deficit declined to USD 46 bn. vs consensus estimates of 51.8bn.

Asian indices mostly rose on Friday. Japanese Nikkei was up by 1.26%. Hang Seng added 1.83%. S&P/ASX 200 inched up by 0.92%, Kospi was up by 1.03%. Chinese indices rose on average by 0.3-0.5%. GDP missed estimates with the real figure of 8.1%. However, Retail Sales, Industrial Production data widely met estimates.

The European indices are slightly down at the start of the session, with IT as the laggards.

US CPI and the University of Michigan consumer survey will be in focus today along with Dudley, Bernake as the speakers.

JPM and Wells Fargo are to present 4Q earnings reports.