The dow down by almost 1,000 points the decline of 1. 8 . S p by over 8 the nasdaq a miracle come back after a laydate rally weve been bouncing around positive territory right now, the dow down around 14 points, s p up about seven points and the nasdaq up about 70 points. We are talking about a town month for the markets, we are looked at four sessions in a row. Thats the longest losing streak looking at these numbers, you are talking about these lower numbers. Month after month i think we had april, may, june, july, august are all up. Stocks only go up not in september. In an Election Year it can take on significance. The nasdaq can move. We can see it down 400 or more points can that close higher again today . Thats a good move you could look at it midmorning and then it seems like it is not the tale at this point kind of the log. Faang, tesla and the leadership move. Apple made the rally yesterday too. Gold is supposed to go up bitcoin, supposed to go up weird. Thats where you think
Or rather, which is worse than expected. We had expectations of 0. 1 . Rishaad exactly and thats currently where we have industrial production. Coming inese are pretty much bang in line with what we were expecting. The retail sales and only showing this contraction for july. Lets get over to bank of chief chinarities economist. Headlines pretty much what we were expecting, but tell me, what sort of picture is it painting for you . That atlly, i would say first glance, this set of numbers does not look extremely encouraging. For several, industrial output ip we would have thought it would be somewhere around this in belowt still coming 5 implies that the momentum of continued industrial recovery seems to be moderating. I think that is number one that i got out of the data. Number two, if you think at investment, thats roughly in line, but we need to look at the breakdown for example properties versus infrastructure to know what is going on. More importantly, retail sales i think to a la
Are in charge. Nothing is able to put a dent in the rally at the moment. What is happening on the s p 500, futures contracts. We are called higher by about. 3 . We have new sanctions from china off the back of that, we saw a little cut back, but overall, a positive picture. It is all about earnings as we look ahead to pepsico later on in the afternoon, the impact of the coronavirus in focus and adjusted etfs fall 23 could be on the cards. The german bund, largely pointged, negative zero 46. An unwinding of some haven demand, italian bonds slipping. Shaping up. The dollar, weakening against g10 peers, about 1 5 of 1 and copper is a standout in the commodities space. A bit of a rally on the way in the Industrial Metals overall, coming roaring out of the blocks. Also because we are looking at potential supply risks because covid19 has laid low mineworkers in chile. Its get to the first word news. s Electoral Commission says incumbent andrzej duda is set to win the countrys president ial v
How to taper without hitting prices . Polands president ial election is too close to call. We have the incumbent ahead by a thin margin. The result is seen as pivotal for the nations future ties with the European Union. Welcome to the European Market open. Matt is off this week, but just a month under an hour until the start of the trading day. European futures and u. S. Futures for you and both tell a similar story. European equity fund its pointing to the upside, u. S. Futures pointing to the upside. Between. 6 andp. 8 . Weve got u. S. Banks reporting, plenty of those coming through the week. Weve got a few Central Banks giving us their Interest Rate decisions, a little less likely to drive sentiment this week. Looking to the earnings season for any clues. Lets have a look at the gmm to see where weve been overnight through the Asian Session and any clues into the european session. Flying, chinese assets taking off despite caution in chinese papers. The japanese nikkei come also stro
Florida sees its biggest oneday rise, some of hollywoods biggest names test positive. And chinasotest crackdown in hong kong seem to have spurred a reaction at the ballot box, voters have turned out in the hundreds of thousands. Lets look at how the week is setting up in asia. A pretty positive lead, asian stocks will keep the rally going. About half a percent after the u. S. Stock rally extended that weekly gain on friday. The s p 500 outperforming the nasdaq for the first time in two weeks. That bifurcation will continue. Nikkei futures up 0. 3 . Trading in chicago after a three i Third Straight weekly decline, continued concerns about another wave of virus cases in tokyo and elsewhere in japan. 1 ney futures setting up for 1. 6 higher. New zealand, blue signals when it comes to trading kiwi stocks after that threeday selloff, up 0. 7 . The level of Foreign Investors piling into the kiwi market suggests we will see further outside with that golden cross, crossing the 200 day dma patt