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
Interesting. I think probably a little too early to worry, given where the 10 years right now. Lisa never too early to worry. Jonathan the hyatt is about 90 basis points. We are in the middle. Theres a little bit of concern about oversupply, particularly at the long end, but two governments issued longterm hours. The last few the other was apple and president tim cook. [laughter] it is the 40 year portion that i think is getting the attention. It is about the Duration Risk people are willing to take. Lisa people are saying that perhaps demand for that offering took away from the u. S. Government. You do have to wonder, and i think this is a question a growing number of strategists are asking him selves, at what point does the fed start to get worried, step in and say we have to up our purchases of treasuries in order to suppress bond yields . ,onathan ppi came in hotter jobless claims came in better than expected. We round things out this morning with u. S. Retail sales. Ive got to say
Higher by 35 after the s p snapped a fourday winning streak yesterday, the dow, nasdaq and s p 500 still on track for third week on gains this week, boosting the American Economy, the white house working on another round of stimulus reportedly to the tune of 1 trillion. We will talk about it. Meanwhile protestors taking to the streets for a tenth day in a row, mostly Peaceful Demonstrations happening from coast to coast as memorials are held for george floyd, clash of tech titans, elon musk is calling for the breakup of amazon. Meanwhile slack and amazon are joining forces to take on microsoft. Joining me at 8 50 eastern on powerful alliance. Getting make back to work, universal orlando opening gates to public and nba has plan to return july 31st. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning with firmer tone, take a look at european indices right now, the cac quarante in paris is up 106, better than 2 and dax index in germany 213 points. European markets closing ou
Trading session in the u. S. Overnight. Hang seng will be the focus, down 121 point. Another choppy session after quite a comeback yesterday. Jakarta is muted right now. News they will be easing lockdowns in the capital despite the rising cases. Sydney leading the losses, down 1. 2 . Three in a row that have been strong, perhaps the pboc sending a message they will not use currency as a weapon. Onshore strengthened the most. Dollaryen, you are seeing that haven trade come back. As you said, the main market event over the next 24 hours is this presser by President Trump, he will announce u. S. Policy on china curbingijing passed freedoms in hong kong. His top advisers said china will be held accountable by the of ministration. Is it Wishful Thinking in the u. S. Administration to think maybe they can change chinas behavior and plans for hong kong . I think nothing is impossible, but this does seem extremely unlikely. If you look at all the actions beijing has taken, it is clear there ha
Shortly. What do you observe this morning, nejra . Nejra im observing headlines coming through right now from andrew bailey, in the core with journalists he is having right now, that it is clearly a commitment to take action, saying the qe program is highly aggressive and appropriately is so. Also saying there is no evidence the boe is targeting any part of the yield curve, but what is really interesting is we did see a little bit of differing views in terms of the decision today. There were policymakers that wanted to extend qe today, but the reaction to the fact we have had no change in policy today is coming. Analysts say we will get more qe in june or august or both, and the pound catching a bid off the back of the boe forecasting the vshaped recovery. That is what i find staggering. A 15 rebound in 2021. Tom i think you are dead on in that, nejra. There is no question what six out within all the excel spreadsheets and the heroic language at this moment, really with depressionera e