for Spain this morning. In the past few days the bond yields for the likes of Portugal, Spain and Italy have just been creeping higher making the bulls reluctant to get too involved and yesterday's PMI data from the UK was rather a disappointment. The Dow yesterday managed to put in a half decent performance considering all the clouds of uncertainty surrounding the Presidential elections and gained some 6 points to end up just over the 13,100 level and so this morning European indices are just in the black at the time of writing. The FTSE is at 5850 tracking sideways as it looks like investors are just going to sit on their hands ahead of getting the result from across the pond. The euro lost 31 pips to 1.2789 as the Greek Prime Minister Antonio Samaras will try to win political support for the tough measures that could bring in the much needed financial help. Ahead of a week that will see regime change in China and very close to call elections in the US, investors in the shared currency were rather reluctant to commit too much. This morning the single currency is languishing around its recent lows at 1.2780 and over the near term support and resistance is seen at 1.2750/30/00 and 1.2810/40/60 respectively. Gold is trading steady as investors await the results of the US Presidential election, closing at 1678.7 yesterday. The precious metal is at a nine week low at current levels and the people's choice