Escalation. Central bank decisions. Trade uncertainties are accounted for. Later in Bloomberg Technology global link, we will break down disneys earnings. Now, lets get you started with a quick check of the markets close tuesday session. Some calm returning to the markets. The stocks rising, the dollar studying. The search we saw in treasuries peering back a little bit. The s p 500 being led higher by tech and financials. Every sector of the s p 500 was in the green, except for energy. Oil slumping into bear market with brent falling more than 20 since its april peak. Not even the fact we have eight straight weeks of declines in u. S. Stockpiles helped debt those losses. The nasdaq gained 1. 4 . The dow up more than 300 points. U. S. Futures at the moment not doing much, but lets see how we are setting up in asia. As we saw markets fall to the lowest point in weeks. Sophie we saw the asia benchmark fall to the lowest level in nearly seven months. Futures this morning pointing to a mixe
Oil slides into a bear market as trade tensions add to slowing demand. Brenda cost 20 since its april high. Cost 20 since its april high. Shery stocks rebounding. Treasuries paring back some of the earlier sturges we saw this week not to mention the dollar surges we saw this week, not to mention the dollar. We had brent falling more than 20 since its april the and sliding into a bear market. This despite the fact that we are seeing eight consecutive weeks of your talk piles declining u. S. Stockpiles declining. 1. 4 . Sdaq gained lets futures at the moment under a little bit of pressure, down. 1 . Lets see how things are shaping up in the asian markets as we have a few centralBank Decisions. Sophie it could be a mixed start for the asian stocks after a fiveday loss with several major market threatening to join the kospi, writing our yeartodate gains. Wiping out yeartodate gains. Check out tv stocks, jumping 1 one hour into cash trade. 10year gilts hovering around 10 . The aussie dollar
Capitol hill falls far short of democrat hopes. And the greatest brexit cheerleaders says its time to act decisively to pull the country out of the european union. Lets get you started with a quick check of how markets closed the wednesday session here in the u. S. It was a mixed picture across markets in the u. S. Picture, but you can see, of course, that the s p 500 rallied to another record high. We have very strong numbers out of ups with its profit guidance. Higher. Aq also closed Texas Instruments posted strong earnings. Boeing and caterpillar really weighing on the dow, which underperformed. As. Futures at the moment little bit in the red at that 3018 level. Yields were down with manufacturing pmi barely avoiding contraction territory. Lets see how things are shaping up for asia. Sophie geopolitical risks into the fray once more after north korea launched two projectiles this morning. We will see if japan will strip its neighbor of its preferred status. Nissan earnings as the ca
Testifiesller finally but his longawaited appearance falls somewhat short of democrat hopes. Shery we have breaking south korea gdp numbers for the Second Quarter. The preliminary numbers year on year are seeing growth of 2. 1 , which is better than the expected 1. 9 growth. It is also an acceleration from 1. 7 in the First Quarter. Quarter on quarter, those numbers also avoiding a technical recession after contracting 0. 4 in the First Quarter. We are now seeing quarter on quarter growth of 1. 1 , which is better than expected. It seems that we have seen more Government Spending and south korea. The contraction that we saw in deceleration in the First Quarter came from local governments not spending as much. Now we have Government Spending kicking and again. Also consumption being relatively resilient despite the fact we have been getting contracting freddie lacks exports contracting the last seven months. This has been a difficult environment for south korea. Investments have been fa
This is the deputy business i got out of his in berlin welcome one year ago today u. S. Sanctions against iran over its Nuclear Program were reintroduced that means the u. S. Punish everyone who trades with iran the sanctions bit and irans economy is in freefall soaring inflation has even prompted the government to safe for was zeroes off the value of the currency meanwhile many Foreign Companies a pulling the plug on their prey sions in iraq once upon a time doing business in iran was reasonably straightforward its now Foreign Companies operating there are finding themselves caught up in political strife of the 120. 00 german firms that had a presence in the country hof have not pulled a fearful of angering the United States if they stay. European businesses that want to keep trading with iran without infringing u. S. Sanctions can do so by using a specially created instrument called insects but take up is not widespread and the reintroduction of u. S. Sanctions hasnt only damaged bus