Tweet us cnbc fast money. Lets start with a strong start to the week for the markets. In fact, recordbreaking close for the nasdaq tech leading the way it has done so often guy, your take on todays rally. If we snapshot today, guy, Half Way Point of the year, the dow is down 8 or so the nasdaq 100, up 21 , almost a 30 differential will that be repeated in the second half of the year . Well, first of all, its great to be with you you know, im a huge fan of yours. Ive mentioned that number of times. So. Thanks for hanging out with us this evening. Thanks for having me, guys. Im hard pressed to believe that you can come anywhere close to having that same kind of out performance in the second half but i have to say, i didnt think it would happen in the first half of the year so who am i to sort of speculate on that. What i will say in terms of the s p 500 with its move basically within a whisper of its alltime high if you assume 130 worth of earnings for the s p 500, which is a pipe dream,
Taliban to kill american soldiers. And mourning in the streets of addis ababa a popular ethiopian singer known for his political songs is shot dead. Small groups of protesters have been started to gather in hong kong hours after china imposed a sweeping National Security law that is expected to reshape the citys future that i just station came into effect on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of hong kongs return to chinese rule mass antigovernment protests on this day have been an annual event in the past. Chinese legislators drafted hong kongs National Security law in secret without any input from the citys legislature and at record speed its details became known only after it was inactive a law will punish loosely defined crimes such as subversion secession and collusion and sentences of up to life imprisonment the law also means that anybody either people in hong kong or foreigners could face prosecution for offenses committed outside the city foreign officials or academics who public
Jakarta just coming online. Interesting when it comes to the hang seng, we are close to those session highs for the hang seng. Cathay pacific certainly one to watch. Spike onned that brief this governmentbacked rescue plan. We come back to earth a little bit. Still seeing shares elevated a little bit. Chinese stocks slightly lower. We missed on the Inflation Numbers. Small caps in china close to 20 higher from those lows we saw. India futures also pointing positive. We are watching the dollar as well. Down for nine of the last 10 sessions. A little bit of exception with the yen, 107. 79. The hong kong dollar still on the stronger side but kyle bass doubling down on his bet against the peg. We will see what kind of demand there is. Offshore renminbi pretty much unchanged right now. Haslinda lets stay with china. Factory prices continue to fall in may. The country continues to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Lets cross to selina wang in beijing. Break down the Inflatio
Industrial data out of germany. Desha back to that euro. Within back to that euro. We have seen Christine Lagarde speak for the first time. She has been talking about the impact that the coronavirus has had. She said that the policymakers that the ecb have done what is justified but she continues to push for this idea that we do need this fiscal pop package to come through. The european commissions proposal for a revised financial train work and the next he generation eu are decided in this regard. It it is association it is associated with the proposal and could have an impact on the International Role of the euro. It will important to adopt that package quickly. Christine lagarde speaking a little earlier today. She will speak at the bottom of this hour as well. Speaking to us from washington is adam pozen. Banks,alk about central particularly the ecb given the fact that Christine Lagarde has just been speaking. Herhe doing enough and are calls for greater fiscal policy out of europe
Begin with the latest flare up in china beijing announcing new security measures in hong kong send iing the hang sang to its worst day in almost five years the move escalate iing tensions with the United States with President Trump threatening quote unquote strong reaction to the crack down so does china become a bigger head wind for the markets . Pete, what do you say . Yeah, it seems like theres a dimpt new story every day that seems to lead us up or down. On literally every day, whether its earnings one day that we focus on unemployment in your opinions. China, another day the virus of course and somebody having sort of a vaccine of some sort or another. Always something leading the markets. What i was encouraged by today, china and the u. S. And some of the issues were going to be facing Going Forward it seems to me like weve shaken that off well its been an impressive ability of the markets we could have slid easily today and down 400 points going into the weekend like a friday or