A threeday look at futures, dollarchina. You have sterling on the back foot, relative renewed optimism over brexit and you have dollaryen on offer. On the back of this return into the risk appetite. Donald trump making another comment on top of on top of him saying the talks went well about an hour back, he also said the chinese are very nice. That has driven dollarchina up. U. S. Futures, 29. 50 into the open. Look at the equity markets, the shanghai composite, topix index, decenthave asx session, volumes coming back but not quite to the recent averages. Quickly, look at the bond market. Will talk about a reposition out of sri lanka but that is what you need to know. You haveear yield, japan, australia, the u. S. , and what youve seen in gilts. 13 basis points, secondbiggest in absolute value, biggest jump since referendum in percentage turns, biggest jump on record. We will see if this continues. Are we setting ourselves up for disappointment . Puttinghway to brexit, yield on a stair
Surveillance. Thee a lot going on in markets. After this attack on an iranian tanker, you can see crude oil gaining 2 . Is at 64. 53. Gaining andrently the pound is at 1. 2 460. We are also getting headlines outlook iea cutting its as the economy eclipses the saudi attack. They are pointing to a little bit of Downside Risk in the worldwide economy, saying that will impact demand. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. Quote very well. Thats how the first day of trade talks went according to donald trump. Today, he plans to meet beijings top negotiator. These are the first highlevel talks since july. But sides are working to end the 18 month long trade war. Besides appear willing to agree to a partial deal and would leave controversial issues for the future. And two associates of the president s personal lawyer are accused of violating Campaign Finance laws as part of a plan to oust the u. S. Ambassador. This scheme is part of the u. S. House impeachment in
Overnight in asia. The nikkei higher by 1. 1 . Hang seasoning up 2. 3 and shanghai up. 8 . Youll also see green arrows in europe the dax up 1. 9 . Cac is up. Gains for italian stocks too in the treasury market, at this point, 10year yielding 1. 67 . Twoyear at 1. 551 30year up at 1. 61 . Iranian Officials Say two missiles trunk an iranian tanker in the red sea crude prices, as a result of this, they are jumping up close to 2 wti crude now 54. 47. They are saying that damaged two store rooms aboard the tanker and caused an oil leak that attack happened about 60 miles north of the city jeda six months after the attack of the oil tanker in hermuz and the saudi attack never good to conjecture anything they have been the attacker and you wonder was there Something Else going on because they didnt point fingers, you wonder. Was it a screw up but we have no idea. No idea they were attacked by someone. Who knows. Two missiles hit a tanker that much we know. Lets talk about the trade headlines.
He hit everything and anybody, go ahead. Maria quite the scene inside and outside the rally, of course, breaking news this morning, oil prices, markets are moving this morning after missiles hit and Iranian Oil Tanker, saudi port city of jetta overnight, iran state media, leaking crude into red sea, iran says the situation is under control now, the ship crew is safe, key shipping route for global oil industry, lets talk about that, here oil prices up and 3 quarters percent, reaction here. Look, this is just an isolation of tensions, we dont neglect that, its unconfirmed. Theyll be a marginal strike in prices. Thats right, we saw that attack on saudi oil field, we got spike up in prices but it didnt sustain, so i dont see this being i think this continues, but i dont see it as being sustainable higher earning. Maria in terms of resilience of the u. S. Given the supply thats coming out of america right now. Dagen as long as ive been wearing a microphone and makeup sitting in front of a c
The feds Robert Kaplan says hes not sure the u. S. Economy can avoid a severe downturn. Tim cook defends apples decision to remove an app that tracks hong kong police. He says it was being used maliciously. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We see u. S. Futures gaining. 2 after President Trump said u. S. China trade talks were going very well. That optimism translated into the regular session and we saw the s p 500 game. 6 percent. As we finally had the first day of those twoday negotiations kickoff after we saw a lot of conflicting reports on if that would happen. We had banks and automakers leading the gains on the s p 500. The Semiconductor Index also gaining about 1 for a second consecutive session. The nasdaq also rose. 6 . We had a weaker than expected u. S. Cpi print, which did little to discourage market excitations that we could perhaps be seeing more fed easing. Energy was the best performer as well in todays session as we had wti rebounds from a t