Negative territory down by. 2 . The dollar gaining strength and crude is all over the place. You wind up having opec leaders meeting and talking about maybe extending a deal through 2022. That comes from the Saudi Oil Minister. So the oil market is trying to digest that. The big news has been what is happened with apple. A 2 trillion market cap. We knew it was coming and now it is official. Isning me more is the but you are global on fx, apple, what do you do with that . Anne from a fundamental equity standpoint i cannot have any comments on all, that i would stay that say that this level of market cap is a success and that there Monetary Policy policy easing, the giant firehose of liquidity as well as actions by the European European Central Bank and bank of japan has bouyed the equity market and we are seeing a little bit of a rally and everything. We talked about that before the virus and it is interesting to see that we are back at that point and it reflects a tremendous amount of
But says ridehailing bookings fell for the First Time Ever last quarter. Shares rise on signs that it is emerging from the virus slowdown. Take a look at how we are setting up when it comes to the final trading session of the week in asia. U. S. Futures flat after we saw gains on wall street. Despite those historically high unemployment and jobless levels that we are still seeing in the u. S. , there is some sort of consensus among Market Participants that the worst may the over but we are looking ahead to the optimism of the economy reopening. We are also seeing optimism when it comes to new zealand, this despite the budget deficit numbers that were released earlier from the treasury report. New zealand just emerging from that stated four lockdown with the economy stage four lockdown. Also outlining steps for a gradual return to more normal economic functioning. New zealand on track for an entire week of gains. Definitely the outperform in the region. Ofcould get maybe a gain. 25 . We
The economy as early as next month. Almost 2 Million People have died worldwide. The imf and world bank prepare to meet amid the most down the worst downturn since the 1930s. The new reality of collapsed trade and mounting unemployment. Oily we are seeing reversing gains as much as a percent at one point in london. 25 , sames now down for wti. We had the reduction coming from opec and its allies are that would have been the sickest single largest in history. Goldman sachs but says it is insufficient. U. S. Futures gained at the open, reversing earlier prices. The nikkei futures also down 1 . We have markets closed on holidays including australia and new zealand. Global cases also affecting sentiment in the markets. Those cases rising towards 2 million with the United States the epicenter of you break after fatalities in the country surpassed italy. There are signs of optimism in the hotspots like new york. Lets bring in Sophie Kamaruddin with the latest. We have seen President Trump. A
Futures and negative territory for the first time on record. Air travel is floundering with carriers slashing services and grounding planes. Richard branson says the virgin operation may not survive. Today was big story the crash in oil prices. We have the wti futures settling at 37. 63 per barrel. You are taking a look at june futures at the moment. This of course still at a volatile level, but the real question being is will it suffer the same fate . Today, we saw the technical auditing exacerbating the price plunge away from the may futures contract ahead of the Energy Companies running out of place to store oil. U. S. Futures jumping 3 10 of 1 after they pulled back from a six week high. Quibi stocks under pressure. Jim. Ng us now is what was interesting in todays session was it a virgins we saw in the market. We had the price of oil collapse but at the same time, really not a lot of movement when it comes to the u. S. Stock market for the treasury market. Why are we seeing such di
Beijing says mainland infection rates are falling rapidly. The virus continues to wreak economic havoc. Data shows acrosstheboard slumping china for the first time on record. Shery lets take a quick check of the markets closed in the friday session and how u. S. Futures are reacting to that emergency rate cut. We are seeing u. S. Futures accelerating losses at the open, down more than 4 despite the fact we saw another emergency rate cut by the Federal Reserve and President Trump expection x resting satisfaction expressing satisfaction. This comes on the cut friday and we saw the s p 500 seeing its best day since 2008. We have every sector of the s p 500 index in the green, rising at least 4 following the worst session since 1987. We did have the president also coming out with many measures to support the economy including a declaration of National Emergency and moving to prop up energy prices. A moratorium of federal student loan interest. Not to mention the private sector jumped into