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
Steve mnuchin says the u. S. And china have made significant progress ahead of new trade talks next month. Iran will also be eight on the agenda. Be on the agenda. And the alibaba cofounder steps down. Kathleen lets take a quick look at how u. S. Stocks ended the session. Lets go write down because the Dow Jones Industrial average up about. 1 . Health care stocks helped boost it. Closed minutely lower. It got within one point 6 of its alltime high. Despite the trade war a lot of people are still buying stocks. Nasdaq down about. 2 . Stock futures pointing higher. Moodys got fords credit rating. We will hear more on that is that progresses. Now i want to get right to sophie to find out how things are shaping up for asian markets. Sophie early in the session and looks like rick sentiment may be stabilizing. Stocks could be heading for a mixed start. Bonds under pressure tracking the overnight moves we saw in treasury. Kiwi 10 year. We are seeing that move lower with yields moving for bas
Dozens are west it as protesters target the airport and subway network. Dozens arrested. Argentine in christ it again. Capital controls try to hold the country on the as the default. Reminder on how u. S. Stocks ended the session as we begin the trading week in asia. From the dow jones for the s p to the nasdaq, you have the close and stocks within a range of 0. 15 . Not much moving ahead of the long weekend in the u. S. This s prtly we see futures pair when they opened they were down a percent. They pulled back, maybe a reaction from friday. Mostly everything that is happened since friday. On friday, u. S. Consumer sentiment measured from the university of michigan closely watched survey hit as its lowest level since 2016. Everyone waiting for tariffs which went into effect on september 1. Chinas many factoring pmis, purchasing managers index, one of the most important numbers to watch for 70 countries, when it comes to manufacturing, a big problem a whopping from the trade war. China
Tumble. Paul the services session in the u. S. The board. On across treasury yields rallying. The s p 500 jumped into a fiveweek high. The 50 day moving average. Tech shares let the gains on renewed optimism over trade and we had rally at the twoyear yield. At one point, it jumped by the most in about a decade. We had very strong Economic Data when it came to the private payrolls numbers but also little changed when it came to the jobless claims, so the focus is turning to the u. S. August job reports that are coming out tomorrow. U. S. Futures unchanged. Lets see how we are setting up for asia. Sophie it remains to be seen whether this will continue after global stocks posted arrest day gainin since two since january. Hong kong on the radar after Derivatives Trading faced pickups on thursday. We have the nikkei futures in chicago looking to gain ground after the nikkei 225 rolls to a win month high on thursday. Japanese data on cap. Tap. Sydney futures gaining ground, climbing to a on
Economic typhoon. Turbulent times when out for Cathay Pacific protest in hong kong and the loss of the ceo. Shery we are seeing futures higher by four tens of 1 as we see more positive rhetoric from President Trump on the u. S. China trade talks. This on the back of a strong rally we saw on friday with the dow gaining 1. 2 and every sector on the s p 500 in the green. The s p 500 gaining 1. 4 on friday. We saw chipmakers leading the gains, after we had positive results out of nvidia. There was also positive sentiment out of europe as officials there hinted they would come to the rescue if the regions Economic Data deteriorated further. That gave a boost to investor sentiment. 1. 7 . Sdaq gained there was a lot of volatility still with those things swings on the s p 500 with more than 1. 5 intraday. This week the focus will be on jackson hole as we will wait to hear from a fed chair powell making comments later in the week. Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Place the pieces are in