The opecplus curbs doing little for the global glut. The virus drags on demand. Policymakers are focused on the Economic Impact of the virus. We will hear from a policymaker later this hour. Shery we are seeing downside for u. S. Futures. This coming on the back of a second straight week of gains. We have seen coronavirus cases start the United States to stabilize. We are seeing coronavirus debts and cases here in new york coronavirus cases here in new york start to decline. Brent is down. There was a loss of 8. 5 on friday. There is a gloomy outlook on oil prices, wti at the lowest level on record. Haidi we have been listening into President Trump speaking at the daily Coronavirus Briefing at the white house, talking about additional testing and stimulus and conversations with the democrats coming close to a deal. President trump saying Vice President mike pence will be helping having discussions with u. S. Governors when it comes to shortcomings in testing in information will go ahea
To talk about the markets. I will bring in romaine bostick. Romaine of course, the worst yesterday. 987 we retraced some of those losses today, about 6 . Almost all of the sustained buying, defensive stocks, talking about utilities, real estate, consumer staples. Utilities attractive at this stage because a lot of these Companies Pay dividends. When you talk about consumer staples, we are talking about , a lot of the goods, like food, cleaning supplies, and other sort of essential staples. Another aspect we saw, recommending stocks that they say are great places to hide. Facebook,ut amazon, saying the workathome movement we are seeing here, of course with you being sheltering in place, that that will be a boon to companies that deliver like amazon, or like facebook. They are also recommending Companies Like walmart. Again, the stocks moving higher are those that stand to benefit from the pain that a lot of people are expecting to see. Really, everyone we spoke to today, the main word o
Protests take their toll. Shery china continues to push the liberalized market with a more flexible loan. Japan and south korea have come online. Lets get straight market action. Offie the nikkei 225 is. 3 . Best court of the again since 2016. Asian stocks are drifting toward the year end. We are digesting the latest figures. We are going to be getting hong kong trade numbers. Taking a look at was going on in sydney. We are seeing shares snap a threeyear game. Paul lets get you uptodate with the first word news. Wildfires in australia are expected to get worse this year week amid rising temperatures. 122 millions of million acres of land have burned. Nine People Killed and over 950 homes destroyed. Scott morrison says that firefighters battling the fires in New South Wales will be compensated. This is putting additional demands on our firefighters in particular. It means the turnouts and the callouts have been far more extensive than in previous years. This is beyond and above what is
Some of the other Asset Classes are moving on a bit of news. Sterling falling, erasing the gains we saw for the currency before the general election. Going below 1. 31. The thai baht is one of the strongest currencies in this part of the world, Interest Rate. Bit later coming out Oil Inventory story, that is not the oil price but we have 60 or thereabouts. That is reflective of a growth in u. S. Inventory. Bitcoin, continuing to be there even though it is higher. A report says the cryptocurrency perhaps peaked two years ago and on top of that we have a lot of rivals out there. There is a crypto scam in china which is seeing unwinding of the action. That is where we are from these Asset Classes. What else is going on . Lets join su keenan. Japan and the latest economic data, japanese exports fell for a 12th straight month in november. Aat confirms little sign of pickup despite indications the slump in Global Manufacturing may have bottomed. The value of shipments abroad fell just under
Social elect leaders that favor exiting the coalition with the cdu. Narrowing the lead, four of the five latest polls show the Uks Labour Party closing in on Boris Johnsons tories as President Trump visits britain for a nato summit. 7 30 in london and 8 30 in paris or berlin. 29 minutes from the start of the European Equity trade for monday morning and things look flat on the European Equity markets, but that is not necessarily the global picture overnight. U. S. Futures, looking a little more positive. Probably, we are reacting on the Positive Side of things to the data out of china, the manufacturing pmi coming in higher than estimates. That seems to be something that could lift equity markets in the United States later. Futures look more positive for the u. S. Lets get to the Asian Session and the gmm shows us where we are on asian equity markets on the far side of the screen. 4 , indonesia doing strongly and the russian market, not bad. A slight cleaning for the on equityrisk on mo