Since the beginning of september. As investors try to move toward the Health Care Part of the economy, it is creating choppy trading action as we can see with todays mixed action similar to yesterdays big move, lots of volatility. David we have all been fixated with the election, and some with covid19 and the vaccine. You pointed out something that happened in august that may be having ripple effects in the equity markets right now. It seems as though the surface issues, the very important issues, the election and the virus, a huge issue that can change the field. It seems that what we are seeing is a repricing of risk. In august, the feds policy framework shift back in august ,eeping rates lower for longer especially the short end of the curve, but putting the sentiment towards the idea of inflation or healthier economy, that has steepened the yield curve tremendously, again a repricing of risk. This is healthy, but when the yield curve steepens it does cause lots of different Asset C
The stoxx 600 up by 0. 7 . It has not given up gains of yesterday. The ibex continues to outperform. It has been one of the most beaten up during the covid crisis. The s p is down by 0. 8 percent. Crude is still up, trading at 42. 82. This demand expectation goes handinhand with the travel story, but crude stocks in europe are some of the best performers. Oil certainly gaining on a number of fronts. We continue to see what is happening in the bond market, and we watch this very carefully. I think the german bond market increasingly, certainly over the last day or so, feeling like it has been driven by what is happening in treasuries. Treasuries moving up to that 1 mark, having an effect on what is happening in germany. Interest overwith the next few days. It is only tuesday. Alix thanks for that. It was an ugly close yesterday for the u. S. As guy was mentioning, eu negotiators reaching a deal on the longterm budget, expected to add about 2 to the eus economic output in the coming year
Nikkei, last 30 minutes of trade. Final stretch of the morning session paid south korea is being dragged down. Currency markets. Sterling, cable, eurodollar, aussie, the sing dollar. 136 following this weeks mas decision and policy response. Fairly flat. We could see more action later tonight and into next week, when you have the likes of chinese gdp numbers coming out. Gyrations on the political scene, i would imagine. Lets go to your first word news and get you updated on the virus situation in europe with the u. K. And france facing tough virus restrictions as global infections are heading towards 40 million. Households indoors going under overnight curfew as they have a new wave of covid19. Daily infections hitting record in germany, italy, ireland, and spain. Reporting the most new cases since april. President trump is ramping up rift with Senior Republicans, saying he supports a bigger stimulus package. He is blaming democrats for delaying an agreement, but says he goes further t
On the day could be the reemerging trade war between the u. S. And china, china saying it will slaps sanctions on defense contractors. On this we have greens and other commodities lower, along with stocks. The chip index is a poster boy for the u. S. China trade war that is underperforming, down 2. 5 . That is another nuance developing, as if we needed more. Guy talk to us about david talk to us about the bonds. Last week we were talking about the reflation trade. We saw the 10 year goa above 85 basis points. Now i see it below 80. What happened to that trade . Abigail that is the bid for bonds. That tells you some traders are nervous. They are hedging around not just today but last week. That is why we had bond selloff last week. The yield curve steepen spirit we had stocks down. The nasdaq 100 down for the first time in five weeks. Todays trading action is a continuation of what we did have last week, and it is interesting. Another piece you and i were talking about last friday was t
I want to hear more of the music that was blaring in my ear. Heres where we are. Big out for big outperform are coming through, the s p 500 is up. The pound actually, as you can see now, positive, bouncing around all over the place, getting a negative hit earlier on around the idea that the u. K. Would walk walk away on the 15th. I dont think the market thinks either side will walk away. The eu said earlier on, and this was a report by bloomberg, the eu side is going to call the bluff on this. Britain saying were deftly going to walk away. The market is basically shrugging its shoulders. As you can see, a selloff in bonds is unsurprising, given whats going on at the moment. At the backend over the last few days, cathodes continue to steepen in the United States. Alix we did hear that music and you did an amazing job talking to that techno music. Thank you for that. In the u. S. , part of that is going to be about where we are and stimulus talks. Markets weighing down on the trump tweet