Charles evan calls for credibly important government stimulus. Australia heads into Earnings Seasons amid the first recession in decades and a virus pandemic that is crippling the economy. It promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Here is how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Fewer sugars u. S. Futures under pressure. We had ask leading u. S. China tensions fan yelling fanning the data. The bloomberg dollar index flat at the moment. This after a fifth consecutive weekly decline that will be the longest losing stretch since january of 2018. The offshore yuan is flat at the moment. This after the yuan led declines in asian currencies. We have President Trump moving to been tiktok and we chat. Hang seng futures down to tense up 1 . Under pressure from the last two sessions. It is a thin trading day. Singapore and japan are closed. We have a china data blitz that could be confirming the recovery we are seeing. We have ppi numbers. Not to mention retail sales a
Rewards. All indices are higher in terms of the s p and dow. The nasdaq has turned lower in the last 30 minutes. Vix at 24. The euro continues to drive higher. 1. 1518. Strength after they managed to pass some grants and lowinterest loans to aid everybody. Of crude oil, Summer Travel season is in full swing as coronavirus cases pop up in cities across the country. Many are rethinking a potential comeback in the hotel and leisure sectors. Adam portnoy, is ceo of rmr group. Us,last time you were with it was toward the beginning of the outbreak in the northeast, at least the beginning of what we knew the outbreak would be serious. You were collecting commercial rents at a rate back then that surprised you. Beet been instance i since . Time wence the last talked, in terms of Economic Activity in our portfolio, we have over 2000 Properties Across the u. S. We touch every type of commercial real estate sector. As a result, we have a really good sense of what is going on in the economy on a d
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im
Yields crumble this move lower has huge implications on commodities, rates and multinational stocks tim, you say this is the sloppiest chart in the market right now. Why . This has not been orderly sloppy for the dollar is not something we should feel confident about. In the shortterm, i think the dollar is oversold i think we could see the dollar bounce a bit but i think this trend is intact i think its supported by some of the fiscal dynamics and really also a current account surplus in europe that people kind of forget about and banks that are a bit better in europe. What does this mean for oil . We forget that oil was really the asset class that led us down into the abyss this was a sunday evening when people were concerned about the rest of the world and you saw that saudi and russia were not going to deal with oil prices. What it meant for asset prices around the world and certainly for hard assets is very dramatic oil is the last to recover these charts have been consolidating.
In terms of an after hours session for us it certainly is so many Earnings Reports coming out. And four giant Tech Companies among them coming up on this massive show, fresh off earnings this morning, an exclusive interview with david taylor shares hitting a new record high today. The company saw consumers stock up on Household Goods amid the pandemic and then at the close, well get earnings as sara mentioned from names like apple, amazon, facebook, and alphabet those companies represent some 40 of the nasdaq 100s total market cap that is all coming up today on closing bell. Lets start with the markets the dow more than 500 points intraday swings today. Now at the moment down by 200 points mike, an intraday recovery inspired by the european close this was soft. Once we got that behind us, allowed us to bounce a bit it is true. The markets absorbed that weakness in europe as well as, of course, the ugly economic numbers before the open. Also i tested the recent lows in treasury yields w