His big tech hitting two big is big tech getting too big . Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures slightly higher, up. 1 , this after we saw stocks falling in the selloff in tech intensifying in the u. S. With the fomc leaving the markets and a Little Information lot of questions about the state of the economy and the recovery. We are seeing japanese futures holdings that he at the moment. At this of course as we head for the boj decision. Really not much change expected right there. Stimuluscy to step up receiving. We have a new cabinet in japan as well with the new Prime Minister su,gaga. Right now, under a little bit of it has reached the 105 level. Key restocks gaining. 25 . We have Second Quarter gdp numbers coming in sightly better than expected, but still, the worst contraction since the great depression, down 12. 2 quarter on quarter, haiti. Haidi haidi. Haidi the Federal Reserve pInterest Rates near zero. Interest rates near zero. Ever evolving to medications strategy it unveiled l
The dollar gaining some ground after paring losses after that meeting. Fx sellinging asia off, especially the renminbi after reaching may 2019 highs. There are signs perhaps the currency is being overbought. Expecting boj, boe, and Bank Indonesia today. Those currencies and focus. Watching the bond market as well put it did not get adjustments on qe from the fed. We saw the 10 and 30 yield spike coming off a little now but that did lead to earlier the yield curve steepening and coming off a little. We are watching brent crude as well as wti. Also saw off some of the highs we saw overnight. There is optimism for demand but that is also losing some of those gains right now. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the first word News Headlines and other stories. President trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be just tribute it widely as early as october, contradicting statements by some of his top health officials. The head of the centers for Disease Control and prevention told a Sena
Territory. The week has had news of ashares cell a share sell. China puts money on chips to counter rising pressure from washington. It has the same level of backing as the Atomic Program enjoyed years ago. Sophie lets get a check on the set up in asia. Some much awaited pullback on wall street. Asian stocks look set to fall. 1930still Holding Around levels and the yen above 106. But when it comes to stocks in china and hong kong, a drop is productive at least 1 . Softbank is said to be considering a bid for tiktok. In the Semi Conductor space, news that china is planning to support the domestic industry, which launched a billiondollar route in u. S. Chip stocks. Also in south korea, watching for any details of a potential in thecash handout budget that could be announced this weekend. A snapshot of the u. S. Close, the s p fell the most since march, and it was the biggest sincefor the s p june, the biggest drop for the nasdaq since march, with apples market cap falling below 2 trillio
The hearing was set before the bank agreed to pay 4 billion. The race for tiktoks assets aress the globe sees we told its been talking to geo platforms. We do have some breaking news crossing the bloomberg. Current account numbers coming through. We are getting the july current account surplus coming in at 7. 5 billion u. S. Dollars. The trade surplus sitting at 6. 9 7 billion in july and we are watching out for some other developments coming out south korea today. Highlevel officials of the Ruling Democratic Party and the government will be meeting to discuss a second cash handout and potentially a fourth extra budget according to local mode media reports and we are expecting perhaps an announcement when it comes to the social distancing measures as well as the coronavirus update to come. Lets take a look at the fed when it comes to the markets. It was a fallback overnight when it comes to u. S. Stocks and driven by a correction in the highflying tech sector. We saw u. S. Stocks falli
Company ipo in a year, if approved by President Trump. Is this ride hailer. Eeking to shore up cash haidi lets look at how we are setting up for the final trading session of the week in asia. After a pretty lackluster session, we had u. S. Stocks passing some of those parsing some of those losses, still dropping for a second day but finding support after bouncing off the 50 Day Moving Average on the s p. S p futures seeing a little positivity on the u. S. Fridays session, about 0. 2 higher. Tax leading the client is apple, facebook and peppe microsoft are weighing on declines. We saw a Little Movement in treasuries as well. In asia, the nikkei 225 is seeing an upside, 0. 1 when it comes to futures trading in chicago at the moment. Dollar weakness yen strength will be an issue, the. We have the yen appreciated to the strongest level in six months across broad dollar weakness. The u. S. Dollar index falling for a fifth straight session. We are also keeping watch on the dollar and how it