U. S. Took preemptive action in terms of export controls for the city. Yvonne the one thing the chief executive has said is u. S. Sanctions will not scare us. That is the latest response from carrie lam. Given what weve heard from the u. S. Recently when sanctioned chinese officials over the security law, and also now as you mentioned, paring back trading benefits that hong kong has enjoyed with the u. S. As well. The market seems to be overshadowed by better data. Pretty early when it comes to pmi data in china that came out at the top of the hour. It seems like at this point its really about the fundamentals more than the politics that is driving this rebound we are seeing in risk assets today. Look at the asiapacific benchmark, up 1 . Set for the best quarter since 2009. Still, asian stocks have not really recouped most of the losses we saw in the First Quarter, but certainly u. S. Futures pointing positive as well. The hang seng still up 194 points despite what we have been hearing
You from the bloomberg terminal. American contagion. The u. S. Records its biggest ever jump in new virus cases. Governors reverse plans to reopen their states. Powell puts his foot down. The fed dividends bid buybacks. Buybacks amid uncertainty around the pandemic. Wall street giant slide in late trading. An elaborate fraud. Auditors accuse them of a sophisticated scheme to hide billions of euros. Visa and mastercard consider cutting ties. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at the futures as they are trading now. Yesterday, we closed slightly in the green. The u. S. Also rose and rallied into the close on news that banks would get a little bit more room from regulators to trade and be able to use more of their capital buffers, so diminishing the volcker rule, helping in the u. S. European futures are up as well as we get headlines that klm is securing a 3. 4 billion euro bailout from the dutch government, so we see more hope of s
So we are looking at case counts going up and in equity market going up. We are seeing treasuries coming off, you see three bits today, but what we are seeing as well is a steeper and steeper curve. What does that signal, and ultimately will we see Central Banks stepping on that . What we have coming up for the rest of this program, we have a great our lined up. Lets talk about the highlights coming up later in the hour. We are going to get more oversight as to what is happening in china. Alpine chief strategist will be coming alpine macros chief strategist is joining us. Here in europe, the ecb is warning that the eurozone faces about two years of downward pressure during a webinar this weekend. The ecb president , Christine Lagarde said she does see a turnaround after that. Inflation dynamics will be impacted with disinflation to begin with, and then inflation that will occur, that we will have to anticipate, that we will have to measure, but it will be most likely based if we have a
7. 0159. Hore yuan at lets get a check on the markets. Abigail doolittle has the details. Abigail certainly a risk on day at the markets. The s p, the fifth day in a row for the winning streak. The optimism carrying right into the new week after some strong economic data. Of course, we have that continuing rally in china. 100 set for its third record close in a row, being helped out by amazon. And above 3000 for the First Time Ever for amazon. Has a 1 trillion market cap once again. Olibre is above 1000 for the first time. Nasdaq a member of the composite and nasdaq 100. Speaking of these records, its incredible. If we look at a chart on the march lows, the nasdaq is now up more than 51 . Did not exist in the Great Depression, but some say the rally for the s p 500 is Great Depression like after its huge drop. Only time will tell. It seems some of the folks that have been reluctant are finally joining in. These are member ranked returns. Money markets had reached a high of 4. 8 trillio
Lebeau a moment ago on the airlines and he is back with breaking news regarding american. Take a look at shares of american, the airline is announcing starting on july 1st, starting next wednesday, it will fill its planes completely remember until now it has capped its load factor or the percentage of seats that it would fill on a plane, it would cap it at 70 . Thats going to end as of next wednesday, also adding about 1,000 flights to its schedule in july so this is american saying weve got more people flying, weve got more demand and its time for us to fill these planes all the way. They stress people are still going to be required to wear masks, they will still be pushing the fact that theyre sanitizing planes in between every flight, but the time has come for them to sell every seat, fill every seat and no longer guarantee its capped at a 70 load factor. Guys, this is a day with a lot of airline news between this, the unions asking for another bayout and the airline ceos meeting wi