Manus it is daybreak europe. Let us discuss the single bit biggest geopolitical issue in the world. For me, there is a divorce between market recalibration to risk on or less the risk off and retaliatory risk. Let us have a live picture. The foreign minister from iran speaking in tehran. The attack made the world a less unsafe place. The u. S. Is a more unsafe place. There are a number of other headlines translated by al jazeera. I is alling of soleiman big gamble and what happened was not an attack on iraqi sovereignty. It was targeting a man who was fighting terrorists. Good morning. See thee certainly do rhetoric not necessarily backing down on both sides. This is one of the questions we are asking ourselves. If weather with the u. S. Did last week was a great miscalculation and how that might feedthrough into rotelle tatian retaliation. Are we going to see rational actors being more calm in the markets as we wait to find the answers . Manus markets have repriced, and this is what i
Global stocks despite lingering tensions between washington and tehran. Ubs shakes things out. The swiss bank splits its Wealth Management unit into three, cutting up to 500 jobs and naming two new Division Heads. And made in china. Elon musk is in shanghai as the consumer rollout of tesla vehicles finally takes place. We are on the ground all morning. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Take a look at futures here. You will see that they are up across the board. We have gains in asian stocks, which are pushing up european futures, dax futures, up. 6 , as are ftsefutures as futures. U. S. Indexes rose yesterday. We are seeing green arrows again in terms of futures with about 5. 5 hours to go until the start of trading. Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna pulling up the gmm function on the bloomberg, and we are bouncing across these asian equity markets, getting some upside coming through on the japanese markets. We are close
Consumer prices beat forecasts. Shery shinzo abe faces yearend pressure. His popularity is sinking to its lowest in more than a year. Japan is coming online alongside the south korea as well. Lets get straight to the Market Action with sophie. Sophie. Sophie we are in the final stretch of 2019. Japanese stocks did manage to pull through on thursday. The topix with an eight day drop. The topix hitting ground along with the nikkei 225. Today, stocks are trading exdividend today. Lets check in on the open in seoul. We are seeing downside moves for the kospi. We will see what the index can crack 2200 points. Switching it now to check in on the mood in sydney, the asx 200 gaining some ground with gold miners among the biggest advancers. Resolute leading the pack, jumping 7. 5 percent earlier with spot gold on course for the best year since 2010. Jumping into the terminal, that momentum could make for a solid 2020 for gold as traders make attempts to carve out a higher trading range after bu
Big move. Key under performer is the small caps. Watching . Hat are you we had a small decline for major averages. For the s p 500, three down days. First time since early october. Lets put in context of the technical part we have been looking at for months. All, with the rsi going appropriately from overbought to oversold, then the range everyone was talking about when the range was breaking out, we have this multiweek melt up, but today, we have these three small down days. We may see the s p 500 move down toward its but 50 day moving average. Supporting a pause or consolidation. But there is an area here where it lifts up and down. We may be starting a new higher range. Speaking of higher range, a big day in oil markets. The most active west Texas Intermediate Oil contract, rising 2. 5 . Lateis the highest since september. Futures up 1 or more across the entire oil curve. The brightucers are spot today. Exxon mobil up 2. 5 . Xle, sp, you have , they arerry and mlp among the biggest
Certainly has been weakening i know businesses spending on software purchases technology purchases, but do you think now businesses are sitting on cash because of the uncertainty around trade. That is what we hair travel around meet with businesses, farmers are absolutely nervous suffering from low prices you are hearing manufacturers nervous some export nervous about trade wars some nervous about globe environment we know that europe is slowing we know china is slowing so i think there is a general level anxiety that is causing people to pause. What can you tell us about minneapolis are you seeing weakening there i know there was some worry or speculation that maybe Unemployment Rate was ticking up. The minnesota rate kicked up from very low levels i am not hearing businesses saying laying off workers i am hearing caution about how many more they are going to hire, so o i am hoping just noise in the data but something we are paying close attention to is this upcoming week getting anot