Damaging as the financial crashes. Italy is taking steps to contain the worst infection rate outside of china. All businesses and pharmacies are ordered to close. Shery lets get you a check of the markets in the u. S. We had the dow fall into a bear. Arket territory, falling 20 the s p 500 a hair away from the 19 lower than the previous high. We had every group on the s p 500 sinking more than 3 . The nasdaq down 4. 7 . U. S. Futures under pressure. We have seen no more details on the substantive stimulus that President Trump had promised. In the afternoon, he said at one point that the u. S. May not need the fiscal measures. That did not sit well with the markets. U. S. Futures gaining 2 10 of 1 . We will see how we do without how we do throughout the rest of the session. News and headlines dominate market sentiment. Sophie a lot of caution. A she futures pointing lower despite the global stimulus engine being revved up. In new zealand, a fiscal response is being considered. The rbnz
This is the position we find ourselves in. Looking at futures contracts for the s p, those are indicating just about a flat picture. We did have records once again for the major benchmark indices on wall street that should have been given is more of an uplift to the tail end. It is just up fractionally in the msci all country world index , which means we are just about 1 away from a record when it comes to global stocks. This is what we have just at the moment. Just appreciating just a little bit despite the horrible production. The fact that the rba is paused for now with regard to Interest Rates and a ruling out a move toward quantitative easing for the time being, just playing in the yield, just in three basis points. Ok. With that in mind, lets find out what else is happening. Lets get to the first word news. Thank you. We are going to start with the white house. A budget official in the Trump Administration says he warned his superiors that a hold on security aid for ukraine could
President trump talks down a military response. Ab inbev is said to be looking for a valuation half what it originally sought rate asian unit as we worked delays its ipo until at least october. The case against Boris Johnsons brexit plan. The u. K. Prime ministers suspension of Parliament Comes under scrutiny in the Supreme Court starting today. Good morning, everybody. Less than a halfhour until the start of the European Equity trading day. This is the picture on european futures. We just came down a little bit in the expectations for the start of the trading day as far as the london and the german markets are concerned. The French Market looking more resilient. Weakness coming through in the Asian Session. Geopolitical tension, of course, in the aftermath of the weekend. Lets have a look at the gmm and show you where we are. Down 1. 7 on chinese markets. Hong kong markets also leading the fall. This is where the weaknesses is coming through. Some numbers be expectations from singapor
Official think lowering to a negative rate will not provoke a backlash. Attention on the trade war. The deficit seen widening last month. Lets get a quick check of asian futures right now. In japan we got the nikkei futures pointing modestly higher. A similar story and south korea. While here in australia we have got futures pointing higher. New zealand been trading for an hour now. Not a great deal of action to report. Paul shery ahn u. S. Futures not doing much of the moment. After stocks drifted throughout the session, and then we had a slight uptick for the s p 500 to gain. 3 . We have consumer shares rounding and Energy Stocks were some of the big losers. Losing a lot of ground after that huge surge we saw a 15 for crude monday and continuing to fall below 60 a barrel. We also have banks underperforming. Ahead of thatll fed Rate Decision on. Wednesday ahead of that, we are now seeing the money markets and turmoil. Take a look at this chart on the bloomberg. We saw the rates surge
Thats all. Stay with bbc world news. Stay with us for all the International News and business stories here on the bbc. And you can visit our website as bbc. Com news. Hong kong demonstrations in the wake of the 11th weekend of protests we look at the impact on the asia financial economy. Grey matters. Why many of singapores asian population are working well into their 70s. Good morning and welcome to this mondays edition of Asia Business report live from singapore with me, mariko 0i. Lets start with hong kong because as you heard on newsday, the city has seen the 11th weekend in a row of pro democracy rallies. The protest organisers say the crowd was 1. 7 million strong other police have said it was much smaller. This comes amid warnings of the Economic Impact of the unrest on the Economic Impact of the unrest on the Asian Financial hub. In just two days after Airline Cathay pacific saw the departure of it chief executive. The bbcs Stephen Mcdonnell sent this report from the demonstrat