Caixabank and bankia talk a merge. U. S. Futures are none volatile with job growth expected to grow in august a warm welcome to street signs. Happy friday it is all about markets. Wall street took a nose dive breaking a 10day win streak now the question, is this a start of a bigger rotation out of growth quality stocks into more valuable parts of the market which have underperformed europe stands to benefit thats the way many investors are thinking about it the cac 40 and the dax in positive territory. The spanish market performing very well. Getting a big boost looking to merge there. Look at the sectors. The major gains coming in the most cyclical part of the market banks up, travel and leisure, basic resources, auto round out the best resources the most defensive parts of the market underperforming, food and bev down apple shares in frankfurt fall wiping 150 billion off the market cap it speaks to the size of apple that it can lose that many man in one day we are looking at those th
A lot of the jobs that have been lost since the pandemic are being recovered. No question it was a much better number than was expected with the headline being 1. 4 million jobs added and the Unemployment Rate going below double digits for the First Time Since the pandemic adding it all up we now have recovered since april a total of about 10. 6 million jobs, which is huge progress, but it also leaves a huge hole we still have 11. 5 million fewer jobs than we had in february which was the month before the pandemic so weve still got to dig ourselves out of the hole and weve still got to look at the permanent impact of all of this. One in the numbers i went to first in this report is the number of people seeing permanent job losses it did rise by about half a million. Its 3. 4 million so that is the highest level since 2013 and does point to the fact that there is going to be some permanent scarring despite the fact, carl, that we are seeing progress, its moving in the right direction. T
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
34. 20 is your level. The nasdaq coming off a fourth positive week. Longest weekly winning streak since december the composting a half percent gain at this point courtney, are you surprised at where we are in the markets given what is going on around the world with the coronavirus its been a while good to see you today. Am i surprised im surprised at how quickly the mark has come back however, we have a market that wants to go up people do want the see things better whether its the onlyis ianalys companies, expectations are very low. The fact we have seen a glimmer of hope, these markets wanted to see that i think well continue to see that rise as we move forward if people can put masks on, we might come out of this faster on the economic front the marks are looking 12 months ahead and saying we see ourselves come out of this and were seeing that with the rise in the s p and market overall. The notion of people being optimistic and wanting to be optimistic you want to be optimistic tha
Gold going back higher as the dollar is lower. Some of the trends we have seen more in place recently are still in place today. Investors are waiting. David we will also get some q2 gdp numbers. I will ask you about gold because it was a big story yesterday. But i have to tie into the dollar. What is the dollar doing . Abigail the dollar is down. The dollar index itself is about flat. The difference is in the euro weighting. The trend on the euro has been down but so much so that we have Goldman Sachs saying perhaps it will lose its status as a reserve currency. In the past, sometimes it is a signal it could be stabilization or a move to the higher. That is supported by the technicals. Relative to the fed tomorrow, will they give any policy move . Very unlikely. They did extend their emergency loans, so that is probably the bigger news. The 10 year yield at this point has basically been flatlining since march. If anything, it appears its bias may be to the upside. That could support th