From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S
Prospects and rising virus numbers. Disney is laying off workers at its u. S. Theme parks and resorts as covid19 continues to hammer travel and demand for group entertainment. Ahead of the first u. S. President ial faceoff, that debate in cleveland happening in the next couple of hours. We are seeing asian markets looking like they will start the day pretty adrift. Chinese pmi numbers could show a steady decline further into more negative conditions. This is how u. S. Futures are trading after slippage in the overnight session with low volumes going into that debate. Contracts are pretty flat at the moment. Thinolume is expected and liquidity on the ground in asia with korean markets on a Public Holiday and the last day of trading before the golden week holidays takes the mainland Chinese Markets out of action. We are seeing a pretty flat start according to the futures session. In sydney, bearishness going into the open, looking like indicated downside of 1 when we get into cash tradin
Lets take a look at other Asset Classes as well. The big news as we talked about, ftse russell adding chinese bonds to the global bond indices so we are watching chinese assets very closely and we are looking at, when it comes to evergrande, that is a stock that has been seeing a quick turnaround after the stock fell 5 . A looming cash crunch. Bond yields slightly higher here aday, and we are looking for dollar that is looking slightly weaker but steady. We are set to end the week stronger by the most since april for the greenback. The aussie seen quite a slide for the currency this week. We are seeing a bit of a lift in the renminbi on the ftse russell decision and the lira here. Turkey surprising with the rate hike yesterday, but the dollar weakening, a big story here today. First word news. Karina mitchell in new york. Karina good friday morning to you. The Trump Administration has been ordered to delay its ban on tiktok. The judge gave the administration until 2 32 agree. O a delay
Lot of panic just yet. Nifty futures in the positive in singapore. But see how other markets are faring. Jakarta coming online. That is 1. 5 lower in indonesia. We are watching chinese stocks under a bit of pressure. As we see shortselling on these local exchanges, reaching a record. Hang seng down 112. Hsbc and Standard Chartered having another bad day. And the kospi as well, 1. 5 lower. As take a look in terms of what we saw overnight. The dollar very much in focus. The biggest gain in three months surged on this haven buying. We see real yields are higher. Those things have stabilized a bit. Did see brent crude actually, wti falling from 4 overnight. Gold is hovering around 1916 and silver really took the biggest hit yesterday with the fall of nearly 8 for silver. Taking a look at fx, with that dollar, we are seeing negative reaction that comes across g10 in asia fx. You see the pound. Cultic concerns back in the forefront. We could hear more from boris johnson. The Prime Minister h
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