Across the americas. The spread is unacceptable. South korea braces for a second wave. Lenders are backing away. Bank of considering cutting a credit line, writing off its and calling it quits. We are just getting some indications, early indications of the economic rebound in australia. The cva australia pmi manufacturing preliminary number for june bouncing back. Just in contractionary territory but certainly much better than the 44 from the previous reading. The Services Number also much better i we get parts of the Services Economy reopening after the restrictions coming in at 53. 2. The previous reading was 26. 9. That composite number for june, 52 point six. 28. 1 and out of contractionary territory. That is a preliminary reading but things looking a bit more positive. Also looking positive for asian markets, lets get over to Sophie Kamaruddin for a look. Futures are in the green with s p eminis and he restocks resuming gains while the aussie dollar remaining on the on foot at the
Region. Where mark mobius is putting his money. In stocks, and by the way, gold. Think about it. If you are not getting anything in the bank at these low rates, it makes sense to have gold in your portfolio. Anna missing out on the everything rally. Boil weakens and iron ore slumps as much as 4 in singapore amid supply concerns. Watch miners at the start of european trade. We are less than half an hour from the start. Welcome to the market open. We are without the u. S. Today, independence today. Lets look at where futures put markets on european trade. Lackluster in comparison to stateside yesterday but we joined in with some of the rally in europe yesterday. Cac futures, ftse futures, dax in the green but not by much. Be aware of low volume. Happens with lowvolume. In the Asian Session on the bloomberg, giving us a picture on the gmm function. Volume pretty low, investors thinking about the record highs we have seen on stocks in the united dates. Also thinking about the b readth of t
Joining us for the hour to break down the market action, keith bliss. Good afternoon to you. Thank you very much, wilf really good to be with you snapshot of today, why are we selling off . Number one, you have low volumes coming into july you usually have the spike in june on the weekly volumes were seeing that today. Listen, you got to say the news is really washing over the markets as it relates to boeing. The downgrade we had at apple, people are getting nervous about what fed chairman powell may say and may not do at the end of the month. I think thats why youre seeing a little selloff in combination with that is we did get overbought in the dow a couple weeks ago are traders talking about the fed and whether they may not cut at the end of the month . Youre certainly seeing that in the discussions that you have with traders and investors alike. Youre not seeing it reflected in the fed funds futures yet still an overwhelming majority of people think were going to get a 25basis poin
Equity futures a mixed open in asia. A flood of corporate debt sales before the fed decision. Oil surge adding to inflation worries as saudi arabia and russia extend output cuts through the end of the year. Lets get a quick check of u. S. Futures doing nothing right now. We are well into september, but it has been the Labor Day Weekend in the United States so we only had two trading sessions in september. To say session was basically the s p down for tens of 1 . Traditionally some timber not a great month for markets. It is the worst generally unless they have already rally between 10 and 20 . Given that we have rallied, may be able not be so bad this year. We will have to see. Mike wilson says 3900 is where we will end the year. There are bears out there. Nasdaq futures pointing lower. We had bonds seeing yields rally 15 basis points partially because 40 markets Companies Went to market and sold bonds, so a massive amount of issuance that would have depressed prices somewhat. We had a
Enters a third day. The u. S. Is moving an Aircraft Carrier strike group closer to the region. We are watching wider diplomatic fallot as one report says iran helped hamas plan its unprecedented crossborder assault. Shery watching the wildcard in the oil markets. At the potential the conflict could spread to the rest of the middle east. Gains for oil prices on that potential up 86 per barrel for wti. Rent is past 88 per barrel after oil posted the biggest weekly drop since march. Iran is a Major Oil Producer and key backer of the hamas group. Though there is no immediate threat is applied. People are watching what will happen with the shipping on the strait of hormuz where tehran has threatened to close it in the past. I did the treasury space Higher Oil Prices could mean higher global government yields freed we saw the 10 year yield and 30 year yield at the highest levels since 2007 last week. We saw a little more stabilization through the week with cash treasuries closed monday for t