The postelection risk rally faltering. Of good morning, everybody. 7 00 in london. Eight in paris or berlin. Lets have a look at the equity markets. Look like europe this. Negative. This is indicative of what we have seen on u. S. Futures or are seeing. U. S. Futures down 0. 5 . Nasdaq futures off their lows but still pretty negative. We are losing our nerve on Global Equity markets. Three days into this neverending election account it seems, the context of course is important. The rally we have seen must have been forgotten when we look at nasdaq futures, up nine, down one. Lets have a look at the gmm. Going on other things here. Oil prices are interesting, down by just over 2 . Dollar, not all about what is going on the dollar. Inflation trade unwinding. Investors wait, the electorate in the United States waits for the counting to continue. The race for the white house is still too close to call. Counting continues in crucial swing states with joe biden catching up in georgia and pen
A lot of the focus has been on what mr. Powell said yesterday and what we heard from the fed. We are seeing a bit of Movement Across the board. If you look at some of the european stocks, they are actually retreating after jay powell highlighted uncertainty about the economic rebound. We sought asian shares falling the most in a week. Treasury yields, that curve steepening slightly on wednesday after mr. Powell stopped short of offering specifics on the feds approach to the monthly bond purchases. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Good morning. President donald trump is not happy with what he has heard about the terms of the oracletiktok deal, but says he briefed on the details on till this morning. Sources have told bloomberg that the Top White House officials have raised concerns about the proposal. They say it falls short of Satisfying National Security concerns. President donald trump says a Coronavirus Vaccine could be widely available a
We will talk about that later on. The bank of england is sounding more hawkish or maybe less dovish. The pound is down. 1. 2419. The Banking Sector, we talk about tltros and what the story there is. 1. 3 out of the door to european banks later on from the ecb. The Banking Sector under pressure. We will wrap some of those issues up a little bit later on. Willem bt her, uiter, former member of the bank of england will be joining us. He is a visiting professor of columbia university. He will be giving us his take later on. Lets focus on the bank of england in more detail. One of the big Central Banks today. The boe stepping up its response to the coronavirus pandemic. To boost bond purchases by 100 billion pounds. Joining us is seema shah. Giltdo i do if i am in the market with what ive learned today . The bank of england chief economist sounding much more optimistic than people would have anticipated. Seema yes. Although they met expectation in terms of the size of the expansion of asset
Almost five years of negative rates behind. The governor joins us after the decision. And donald is impeached in the house for abuse of power and obstruction of congress, but u. S. Markets shrugged off the political drama. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading here in europe. Its taken look at where we are now on the futures picture. We are almost unchanged on futures markets right now. Yes, we have had big drama in washington with regards to impeachment, certainly in the house. The drama will move in the new year into the senate. The markets have been pretty unmoved by that of elements so far, and by that development so far, and the u. K. Equity market is trying to get through some of the slower trading days at the end of the year. We have seen flat expectations for the start of the european day. Thats move to the u. S. Picture. Once again, flat expectations. Yes, we had a lot of high drama, but the markets are managing to lift through this. Lets have a
Nissan releases Second Quarter detailed earnings in just under half an hour. Joining the streaming wars, expanding breadbox in the u. K. Hong kongs financial district is paralyzed for a second day as protesters block subway lines and clash with police. We will get updates live. Less than half an hour to go until the start of the european trading day. Yesterday we were dominated by talk of hong kong. Violence on the streets there. Things seem to be violent once again. Clash is taking place. At the moment that is not having an impact in hong kong or the European Equity space. European equity markets set to bounce a little at the start of the trading day. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. Racked up its first drop in four days in yesterday session. We had a slight pullback in the last 24 hours in terms of expectations around trade, in terms of the news flow around hong kong. Now we look set for a rally. U. S. Futures overlook convinced. Up by 0. 1 . Lets get to the gmm. This tells us what