Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
California joins texas reaching one million infections. Picking a statement, President Trump bands investments and firms controlled by chinas military as u. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in american history. Welcome to the program, happy friday morning. Under one hour until the start of the cash equity trading session in europe. We have a mixed picture in futures. European futures looked negative. Yesterday u. S. And european stocks dropped around concern to the extent we may see new lockdown measures in the United States. We have a futures picture where europe is weaker, wanting to play catchup with latterday losses in the United States. U. S. Futures. 2 the upside. U. S. Futures point two the upside. Nasdaq futures are treated like havens during the coronavirus. Lets look where we are across the broader assets, weakness in china. President trump in the last few months of his presidency, focusing on the things he can still act on. China mobile and telecom fall
Germany is set to rein in public and private parties. Its inflation rate falls further below zero. The ecb may need to do more. Christine lagarde speaks in 90 minutes time. Disney cuts deep. They will lay off 28,000 workers at its resort business, leaving one of the deepest economic scars of the covid era. Welcome to the program. Just gone 7 00 in london. Waiting for data to come out from the u. K. Economy and some news expected from shell. Lets get to the u. K. Data first. This is the final reading on u. K. Gdp, coming in not far away from where we anticipated it to be. Estimate was 21. 7. 19. 8 percent for the quarter on quarter numbers. These are all negative. A retreat of 19. 8 in the second corner. The estimate was 20. 4 . Thats just a small detail. We are dealing with incredibly large negative numbers. They are very backward looking. The real question will be, how does that data perform . How has the economy performed since the Second Quarter . How will liberal perform as we head
Strongso getting some data coming through and it comes to pending home sales. The month on month number blowing past expectations. We do better on a month by month basis of 8. 8 . That was well above expectations. That takes the nonseasonally adjusted year on year number two 20. 5 . This is a market that has come back in a really big way. Alix and continues to stay strong, like auto sales, undermining that fall off a cliff scenario. ,ast night, the highlights president trump, democratic nominee joe biden, which a debate, but turned out to be a boxing match. Everyone knows hes a liar. Pres. Trump you are the liar. You graduated last in your class. Mr. Biden you are the worst president america has ever had. Pres. Trump when needed, i wear masks. I dont wear masks like him. He could be speaking to hundred feet away from you and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. What is the Trump Health Care plan . Pres. Trump first of all, i guess i am debating you, not him, but thats ok. I
Also up on the s p. Thend pingpong and pound pingponging around today. I think it was a reuters report talking about the fact that we hadnt made any progress in the brexit talks. Then we got the legal action and the fact that there was a landing zone, particularly on state aid, and that fishing was the only area that we didnt have a deal done. Subsequent to that, we start to see the pound rolling over again. We did see commodities generally do well last month. Crude down, burned trading just north of 40 brent trading just north of 40. Alix nancy pelosi is having a press conference, saying she is talking about how to go forward on really else. She is still ash really ills on relief bills. She is still hopeful, going against the report that she was skeptical. Euro still trading up 0. 3 . U. S. Is politics in the the European Union is starting Legal Proceedings against the u. K. The move was announced by European Commission president ursula von der Leyen Urszula by European Commission pre