Still grinding higher on vaccine news with lack of bad new news

Asia-Pac equities generally moved higher (with the exception of Australia) and equity futures across Europe and the US are also in positive territory.

• There seemed to be no new clear drivers of the moves, with most pointing to continued follow through from the positive vaccine developments over recent days and a lack of bad news.
• However, after a decent rally so far in November, the S&P/ASX200 rally seems to have run out of steam somewhat. This was largely due to financials getting hit as Australian capex data for Q3 came in worse than expected at -3.0% (-1.5% exp) with downward revisions to the Q2 data.
• US markets will remain closed today due to the Thanksgiving holiday, and liquidity could be impacted elsewhere.
• Japan's NIKKEI up 240.45 pts or +0.91% at 26537.31 and the TOPIX up 10.58 pts or +0.6% at 1778.25
• China's SHANGHAI down 2.823 pts or -0.08% at 3359.504 and the HANG SENG ended 45.74 pts higher or +0.17% at 26720.81
• German DAX futures up 3 pts or +0.02% at 13302, FTSE 100 futures up 14 pts or +0.22% at 6387 and EURO STOXX 50 futures up 6 pts or +0.17% at 3518.
• Dow Jones mini up 57 pts or +0.19% at 29886, S&P 500 mini up 9 pts or +0.25% at 3636, NASDAQ mini up 40.75 pts or +0.34% at 12193.