Ofodollar getting a bit traction. The dollar is going down. This is part and parcel of the yellen trade, which seems to be getting reaction now. It will be interesting to see how she works handinhand with the fed chair. Minutes,e last few crude went through 45. This is wti. We are backing off the little bit, but that line in the sand is the highest level we have seen since march 6, which gives you an idea of the turnaround we are seeing. The big question, is it running too far, too fast . Alix some analysts starting to scratch their heads a little bit, particularly as they look at the curve. President elect joe biden said to announce his selection of former fed chair janet yellen as secretary of the treasury. Joining us as michael mckee, Bloomberg International policy and economic correspondent. What about this appointment is giving confidence to the markets specifically . Theael janet yellen ticks most important box for investors, she makes them money. Take a look at what happened whe
Pandemic. Todyman continue if we start open up the economy . Can that continue with we start to open up the economy . And what is the recourse if you wake up in your robinhood account has been drained . Good news, Abigail Doolittle is here with us. Her account has not been drained, but she has been here with us all day. Risk on we had a nether that day. Not just a risk on week, but a second in a row. For the nasdaq, third. That september felt so bearish, and it was, but we seem to have really recovered from that. Today and this week after so many whipsaws around stimulus on and off, right now there is hope among investors that stimulus is on and a big deal could be agreed on. Nearly on the week up 4 . Nasdaq having its third up week time we have first seen that since august. A big driver for both of these indexes, amazon, up 5. 2 . There could be quite a bit of upside there. Nextf course prime day is week. Thats something investors are looking forward to. Wererming risk on, bonds down
We will be joined to talk more about that. But first, lets talk about the market. Abigail doolittle is with us. On the back of a big speech by joe biden last night that has been largely wellreceived, even some republicans saying it was successful. Abigail indeed. Probably not too much influence in the markets today because earlier today on the open, really small moves. It was as the day got going that the gains continued, especially for the tech stocks on the day. A real head scratcher because we have a they were we do not have any positive macro data on economic front, and we also dont have any negative data relative to the macro either except for the further out uncertainty around the election and u. S. And china relations. Here we have the big tech stocks you were talking about once again climbing to the nasdaq 100 and faang index both at record highs. The faang index now up 115 since its march low. Apple is just incredible, up more than 5 today. Split does notck create value. Inter
Still a dollars story. Bloomberg dollar index looking like the u. S. Dollar is steady in the last 12 hours, but on course for potentially its worse july in a decade. The dollar index is flat essentially. U. S. Dollar, yes, i want to focus on this because 103. 50 is a key line. Modest upside for the u. S. Dollar. Japan downgraded from fitch to negative outlook. But you could see further upside. 103. 50 is a line to watch. In terms of offshore currency in the mainland, or in china, 7. 0 is what we are looking at. The euro is modestly stronger against the u. S. Dollar. Gold and silver and the yield story in the u. S. , gold started to modestly moderate. At. 6 is what we are looking silver also taking a bit of profit. Basiseld story, just 14 points for the twoyear and under 60 for the 10 year. We will see what jay powell says on whether yield control is a discussion they are ready to bring forward for the fed. A look atets have what is going on first word news wise as we look at the u. S.
Territory. We will see how long that lasts. A strengthening dollar today and treasuries at around 63 basis points for the 10 year yield. European markets are returning today. The ftse 100 was the only one open on may 1. The rest were closed. We went lower the first thing this morning. The ftse opened and was trading higher, but all of the others lower. Out of the gate as you say, we got a stronger teller today. A big move coming out of the ecb tomorrow sorry, out of the Constitutional Court regarding the ecb. We had some really poor Economic Data out of the manufacturing front in europe as well. The italian 10 year selling off just a touch. Brent crude up by 1. 21 . Climbing init risk europe unbidden mounting economic concerns over u. S. Suggestions that china hid the severity of the covid19 outbreak. A sickly escalating rhetoric, which is being a little bit aggressive towards china. We have a speech from the National Security advisor today which called out china and the suppression of