Patriotic. Vaccine is on to find a amid warnings of a greater resurgence to come. Haidi pretty mixed midweek outlook when it comes to trading here in asia and for the first time in a while, we have seen equity markets kind of take a step back in terms of not headlines. A great deal of activities and commodities. Lets take a check of futures. Contracts trading higher after we saw a lack of conviction in u. S. Markets as we get concerns that perhaps this fourth round of fiscal stimulus will not be forthcoming. We are hearing the republicans are in the midst of crafting their own proposal to take to the democrats and we also heard from President Trump as he resumed his virus presser, encouraging americans to wear patrioticart of a duty. Over in japan, we are seeing outside of point 3 when it comes to trading for nikkei futures in chicago. More earnings on tap along with japanese pmi readings as well. Take a look at gold and soldiers. Pretty much flat at the moment, jumping close to a nine
On this, and take the oil and find a place to ship it. That is proving to be a real conundrum for these markets here. There is a company, variety of companies that do this for a living including one called valpak. It has storage barrel systems i dont know what you call it all over the world, include places in singapore, rotterdam, theyre essentially saying there is no room at the inn. Weve run out of space for the space people are looking. Sort of a doubleedged sword here. The fears in the market they have not gone away. At love oil suppliers, their concerns have not gone away. A lot of wildcatters, smaller businesses if you take exxonmobils and chevrons out of this, to lesser extent occidentals host of others theyre still feeling the pinch. Not as much as you would think. Off lows early this morning but still down appreciably. So well be looking at the forward month contract where june is the most heavily traded at the moment. So we will keep an eye on that but we will also keep an ey
Lows fausting with a relief after more than 1hundred points lost in just two days. Investors are getting back into this market and theyre bargain hunting because the bottom line, yes, there is fear about the coronavirus but no one really knows what is going to happen. Weve seen a page from this kind of playbook before. Markets do tend to claw their way back. When ebola was a threat of july 2014 to march of 2016, there was a lot of volatility but the dow only lost half a percent overall. For sars, november 2002 to july 2003 the dow gained. From september 2001 to october october 2002 the dow lost a little more than 17 . You look at history, get a sense how investors reacted to all kind of different events, ebola, sars cases, they say that they tend to be blips, not events that define the market. Major corona headlines breaking today, the cdc confirming 14 cases of coronavirus and a u. S. Soldier in south korea testing positive as well. That is not to say this isnt something to worry abou
Losses in tech. The s p is looking at the best year, potentially here in two decades. Deirdre bolton kicks us off. She is at the New York Stock Exchange whether thedre . Thats a great question, blake. You mentioned the s p 500 is on track to havehe year since 1997. Todays red on screens doone foe year. The groups putting most pressure on the markets right now are ones that outperformed last week. Really sent stocks to all new highs for the christmas rally. They include info tech, consumer discretionary, also communication stocks. Youre seeing that pattern as individual stocks too. Some of the biggest winners of the year are lower today. Here are some top three weve been following. Apple, microsoft, visa. They are all stand out stocks for 2019. Apple, we have to highlight. It is the best performing stock on the dow for the year. It is up 82 . The gains pushed companys market cap back above the 1 trilliondollar mark. Analysts talking a lot about wearables. They are beating forecasts. By
Pulled off in germany. But first, a possible thanksgiving truce on trade. The two deals on the table are moving closer to resolutions. As you can see the markets are happy. President trump saying the u. S. Is in the final throes of reaching a trade deal with china, while mexico says Speaker Pelosi will hold a usmca vote between thanksgiving and the end of november. Edward lawrence has the very latest on the tray front to capitol hill. Sounds likes mexico knows more about this than we do. Reporter david, not a vote. She says she will get the agreement between thanksgiving and the end of november but House Speaker nancy pelosi clearly feeling the pressure. She did release this statement now saying that, quote, we are within range of a substantially improved agreement for americas workers. Now we need to see progress in writing from u. S. Trade representative for final review, using the words, final review there. Mexicos chief negotiator was told by the House Speaker he says, that she sho