The chinext is lackluster here. Indonesia coming online. The futures are not going anywhere in singapore today. We are watching that dollars story once again. The dollar weaker here. We did see the pound falling after the bop made the clearest signal yet that it may be considering negative Interest Rates. 104. 81 for the dollaryen. Take a look at crude. You better not be challenging us. You are watching a bit of a bid for iron ore. Global coronavirus cases have no topped 30 million with more than 940,000 deaths. Reported the most cases since the lockdown in may. There were more than 10,000 new infections. The northeast of england is introducing tough new restrictions. The bank of england has given the clearest signal yet that it may consider cutting Interest Rates to below zero for the first time in its history. The policy is part will be a similar move shortly after. Here in the u. S. , the Federal Reserve has started the second round of wall street stress tests. Unprecedented restrai
You mentioned the vaccine trials with astrazeneca. That is not voting well. Boding well. Chinese markets nearly 2 down for the shanghai composite. The hang seng down 303 points, and the kospi also lower. Watching the dollar declined overnight, given some of the risk off moves. The pound down on the sixth the day, the longest losing streak since may. Streak eurodollar slightly lower. , ian hashe aussieyen been boosted by the haven play. G10 higherthe only than the dollar. Yields pretty much flat right now but we saw treasuries up overnight. This is where we are seeing signs of contagion from the tech selloff, the Commodity Markets and oil markets in particular. Below 40 forst the First Time Since june. Thats get more analysis with our strategist. Mark, the u. S. Session came back from the holiday continuing the tech selloff. How is the market readjusting now . Mark it is not a pretty start in asia. The thing thats concerning wayle is it appears to be beyond tech and is affecting other A
Reopening on hold. The bank of japan is expected to leave policy unchanged later while reassessing measures already taken to help the virus hit economy. Look at how take a markets are doing on boj decision day. We had that ricocheting session in the u. S. Overnight. If you needed further conviction as to the hand the fed intentionally has when it comes to showing up market demand, you have the announcement from the fed really causing that gain back into positive territory after we had declines of more than 2 in that trading session for the s p. Futures are looking positive. About. 25 in the green. We are looking at chicago nikkei futures trading higher by about. 3 . We are expecting just more operational steps from the bank of japan in terms of providing support to Small Businesses to be able to ride out the pandemic slowdown. In sydney, we are looking at a pop at the open. 2. 5 higher when it comes to futures, with indicated upside of two point 5 when the cash trading session begins,
As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. 1650 dollars near a troy ounce. Haidi taking a look at a deeper dive, david is in hong kong. What you watching
Climbed down. David both hong kong and Mainland China have come out in opposition of that senate bill which passed this morning, risk off as you can see here, 8 10 of 1 on the nikkei 225. Talking 25,000 for this one as well. China kospi down 1 , hind sang giving up about 230 points at the a sx 200 leading across the region, 1. 3 . Rishaad banks are under a lot of pressure. Also looking up what is going on elsewhere, other Asset Classes in play at the moment. The 10 year yield is unchanged in china, even as we got that caught. The 10 year yield is four basis points down in the u. S. It was only about a week ago we were talking and questioning whether we would get 2 . One thing adding a bit of negativity is the snp active afters, 3 10 of 1 lower a choppy session in the u. S. , retailers really dragging things down, the snp lower all of nasdaq did hit a record high. Cnh is to tenths of 1 lower. Su keenan has your update on first word news. u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson Opposition Lea