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
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
For the first time in three months. It has just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In paris, 9 00 a. M. In dubai. Who do you believe . Larry says there will be a 20 upsurge in the United States going into the second half of the year. Morgan stanley says we will have a short, sharp recession. A vshaped recovery on the way . It is reminiscent of the great brexit bubble that many people wrote about but never lived. Our next guest talks about risk on, risk off. We will talk about the markets in a moment. Did you have a good weekend . Nejra i did. We can go out shopping again to nonessential shops in the u. K. I personally will not be rushing out. Last week was definitely gay risk off week. Was definitely a risk off week. Andrew shaw thinks that investors should position as such, that stocks and credit will be marginally higher and tighter. Looking at cyclical and value stocks. Wells fargo and ing are among those also seeing the selloff as temporary. Read on the screen in asian equities.
Watching here, losses to end the week, stoxx 600 down 1. 25 . Of the major european indexes, the ftse is the biggest loser right now, down 2 . Thats because some of the heaviest stocks affected are british trading in london. Hsbc, london shares of royal dutch shell, British American tobacco, bp, all big losers, and they are very heavy, so they weigh on the ftse. It has been a banner week for equities. If you were long this week, you did quite well because we were up the past four trading. Essions it is not taking away the gains you made for the week. You can see the pound rising. This also amplifies losses on the foot. There tends to be inverse correlation between the pound and the ftse 100. And then rollsroyce. This is not the carmaker. That brand owned by bmw. ,ut the jet engine maker already troubled. It was cutting 9000 jobs it announced earlier this week, but now s p has cut rollsroyces longterm Credit Outlook two junk, and the outlook is negative, so rough for rollsroyce. Vonnie
Spending and chicago pmi fed chair with alan blinder in a few moments. Steve liesman will give us a curtain razor on that. Hey, steve. Good morning, carl. Yeah, were wondering whether powell continues a cautious tone, much more cautious tone than the market seems to embrace and in a way his cautious tone seems to give the market a green light because it means more stimulus or the fed being around for a long time here among powells concerns hes expressed in the past that the employment and growth rebound could take longer than it anticipated, some businesses wont survive the downturn, a possible second wave of the virus and the stimulus will run out and think about more stimulus on the other side you can see the effects of the stimulus carl alluded to in the income and spending numbers this morning. Quite astonishing. Every one of the numbers youre about to see are historic, never been there before. 11 month to month rise in income well tell you why that happened in a second. 13 month t