OREANDA-NEWS. March 12, 2012. The US indices rose on Friday. S&P 500 Index added 0.36% while Russell was up by 1.32% with Financials (+0.79%) and Consumer (+0.54%) as the leaders. Put/call ratio went down to 1.16 and 90-110% skew down to 10.99. Advance/Decline ratio was at 121/370.

Industrial Production, CPI from China, absence of bad news from Greece, good labor market data from the US supported markets.

Non-farm payrolls went down to 233K vs consensus forecast of 225K. Unemployment rate left at 8.3%.

Of 270 DJ Stoxx 600 companies 131 topped expectations while 131 missed estimates as earnings season was going to its final.

Asian indices were mixed on Monday. Chinese indices closed mixed. Hang Seng lost 0.27%, Japanese Nikkei was up by 0.29%. S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.27%.

No significant reports are to be released today.

Earnings season will go on in the US with 1 S&P 500 companies and 5 DJ Stoxx 600 companies to report.