The u. S. And china clash again, this time at the virtual u. N. Meeting. U. S. Futures are flat the moment. This after another volatile session. We had stocks rising. One mega cap rebounding. The s p 500 recovering from an early dip prompted by some comments coming from jay powell. Mnuchin spokery in congress today. The dollar touched a one month high. Look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti is below 40. We are also looking ahead to the asian section. We are suspecting policy changes to come in the november Monetary Policy statement. Large parts of the market expecting the negative rate to take place in the First Quarter of next year. It looks like a modest start to the trading day. Cindy futures are looking positive. Watching the aussie and kiwi dollars. We saw the u. S. Dollar strengthening to the highest in five weeks in the overnight session. Repeating that the u. S. Economy needs more support and has a long road to travel before it will fully recover from the coronavirus fall
Becky is off today all breaking fivemonth win streaks with the dow the big loser. Still a good quarter i should say a very good quarter. The dow gaining 7. 5 take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning lets show you where things stand as we speak. The dow up triple digits s p looking to open higher nasdaq about 140 points hire overnight, Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading after a glitch blaming a hard wear problem followed by a failure to switch over to a backup device. The first fullday closure of the tokyo markets since trading began in 1999. Too much partying like in 1999 also in 1999, the year after was the year 2000. That was the last time the nasdaq had two quarters as good as this. It has been 20 years the nasdaq was up 45 . So it has been pretty unbelievable yesterday, we had worries about coronavirus. Even in new york and elsewhere where there is high infection rates. We had sort of just the aftermath of the debate, which people said was unsettling just watching then
3 . 5. 6 , but improvement from the previous ask. Haslinda it does look like china continues to Gain Momentum in terms of recovery. Lets look at where we are in terms of market reaction. Just. 1 . Underperformed after its biggest rally in more than 5. 5 years. Up. 2 . Pretty muted. Belowe been dragging this 6. 8, a strengthening that we saw onshore and offshore. Jp morgan is seeing gains. The 10 year yields. Take a look. Study right now. 313 after that fresh quiddity injection. Yvonne lets break down these numbers with the head of macro resource. Chinasensus about economic recovery and renminbi since april. What is your take on these numbers . I think the number basically confirms that the Economic Activities are normalizing, especially on the consumption front. We see from highfrequency data that retail sales, etc. That were hit during covid19 are slowly coming back. Upside for september data. Also, from the production side, recovery from earlier in the year. There are three things Go
That are against sanctions against iran. And leaked documents outlining 2 trillion worth of transactions and a failure by banks to catch suspicious funds. Its is one bank named and shares fall to a 25 year low. We will come back to hsbc in a moment. A very good moment. 6 00 a. M. Where you are. I am. One 9 00 a. M. Where china and the yuan and the e. M. That whole narrative plays into markets. As you look into the fx story. China will grow and it will be the only g20 country to grow. If youre waking up in the city of london today, you are questioning whether or not we will see another lock down. Radioyor talking to lbc saying he will potentially talk about fresh restrictions today and we have the u. K. Chief medical officer saying the u. K. Is at a critical point. A balancing act for the government. What do you do with restrictions while maintaining the economy . Indy. Indeed. Setting the bank of england on a different path for a status quo mission. Bifurcatione is a and i do like that
Within a difficult market. Whatews flow dominated by is happening between the u. S. And china on the tech front. Of we chat andds tiktok will be prohibited. The Commerce Department said the Chinese Communist party has demonstrated the means and motives to threaten National Security, Foreign Policy of the u. S. Joining us now is bill faries. Overall take on this, and a potential chinese reaction . Is trying to. Raise the pressure to get the parties to some kind of a deal here. They will basically allow tiktok tiktokhey are telling that will not be able to upgrade, do any servicing this sunday, and banning the use of chat in the United States. There are some carveouts, and i think that is why the u. S. Wants to find some agreements. Tiktok is not being banned officially until midnovember, november 12 is the key date. Involveds the parties some time to reach an agreement to address some of the National Security concerns that have been raised. Overall, i think it is probably more of a posi