ASX futures flat; Vulcan Energy hit by short report

• ASX futures up 4 points or 0.1% to 7422 at 6.59am AEDT
• Australian dollar at 75.05 US cents at 7.10am AEDT
• Wall Street: S&P 500 +0.2%, Dow Jones flat, Nasdaq +0.1%
• Europe: Stoxx 50 +0.9%, FTSE +0.8%, DAX +1%, CAC +0.8%
• Bitcoin -1.2% to $US62,111.38 on Coinbase at 6.20am AEDT
• Spot gold -0.8% to $US1794.25 per ounce
• Brent crude +0.5% to $US86.41 a barrel
• US oil +1% to $US84.59 a barrel
• Iron ore +2.7% to $US122.30 a tonne
• 10-year yield: US 1.62% Australia 1.80% Germany -0.12%

Hello and welcome to today’s Markets Live.

Your editors today are Lucy Battersby and Colin Kruger.

Today’s agenda includes AGMs from Woolworths (with a quarterly update), Link, Whitehaven and Blackmores. The inflation numbers coming out mid-morning will also draw a lot of attention.

This blog is not intended as financial advice.