Rally, and some of hollywoods biggest names test positive. And singapores ruling party takes almost 90 of the vote, and it is still not happy. The Prime Minister says the result is respectable, but it was not a feelgood election. Shery lets get you started with a quick look at how the markets are trading. Futureseeing u. S. Extending gains, up 0. 5 after closing the week in the green. This comes after surging coronavirus cases with states continuing to see record numbers of cases. The s p list by banks. The s p led by banks. They outperformed the tech heavy nasdaq 100 on friday for the first time in almost two weeks. We continue to see the diversion between tech stocks in the rest of the market. The nasdaq composite the highest on record. Take a look at what oil is doing. A little bit of pressure, falling to 40 a barrel level after we saw oil finish in the green last week. The International Agency bolstering its demand for oil, but warns the recovery could be derailed if we continue to
There are concerns over the pace of the recovery, the second wave of infections. Infections rising in 22 states across the u. S. The dow ended the session up 1. 9 . The s p 500 up 1. 3 . The s p futures, under pressure. Oil also falling with the 35 a barrel level. This is after crude posted its first weekly loss since late april. We have, as i mentioned, fears of a second wave of infections affecting the fragile recovery. Investors are awaiting the opecplus joint Technical Committee meeting this week. Lets see how things are shaping up for asian markets. Monday, fragility well. On view as asian stock futures looking mixed after the regional benchmark cap to the first weekly drop in three. Patch,hitting a rough sinking more than 5 in three days. Signaling concerns around a potential recovery across the globe. Value performing decently in a for the month of we are going to find out if Central Banks will add support with rate decisions do including taiwan and indonesia. In japan, after pa
Senior executives started trying to bring him down months before he was first attained. Governmenthong kong admits chinas security rules may not conform to longtime practices, but the Stock Exchange insist things will be better in the long run. I think this certainly creates a clarity and stability for us to move forward. Lets take a look at the monday morning markets. A tepid rebound after we had the biggest route in about 12 weeks on the back of that retailfueled surge we saw in valuations. This is what we are seeing when it comes to s p futures, down about 1 . Chicago nikkei futures also lower. Positive,ures in the still indicating a downside of about. 2 . Then stocks trading at lowest in about two weeks. Kiwi stocks, trading underway. After we heard a contraction when it comes to the Services Industry and a bit of a pullback when it comes to the aussie and kiwi dollars. Risk very tepid across the board. Lets turn to those fears of a second virus wave in beijing. China probing offic
4000 jobs worldwide. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. We are getting data out of italy. A bit better than expected. Is worse than expected, not better than expected. Shrinking 5. 4 in the first quarter, also after it was revised from a 4. 7 contraction before. That is having an impact on the stocks, if you look at european stocks, they are down to 1. 3 , and if you look at u. S. Treasury yields, 0. 6 . You what is going on, the crude oil with the biggest advance on record. President trump has said u. S. Policy measures on beijings move on hong kong. Chinas crackdown as trumps friend to retaliate have further escalated tensions. For more on all of this, we are joined by our chief asia economics correspondent, and the koran. Enda curran. Enda, what are we expecting trump to do . Quiteit could be significant for hong kong, beijing, because the president has a range of penalties to choose from. He could impose sanctions against in
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back