In the last 10 days. The u. S. And china trade new barbs. Washington rejects chinas claim to the South China Sea. Top u. S. Senators are facing mainland sanctions. Haidi u. S. China sentiments dominating again with the grim overlay of rolling back restrictions around the world. This is how we are shaping up when it comes to u. S. Futures contracts, up by. 2 after what was a truly volatile session. We had the s p 500 touching levels prepandemic and we also have the nasdaq hitting a fresh record before finishing in the red and we spoke about tesla being a huge part of that tech eventual close lower. Nikkei futures up by. 2 percent. Sydney futures escalating in the red, point 8 lower, looking like a set up of. 5 lower, this as we are expecting an announcement today that the fed of New South Wales will ease back those restrictions when it comes to indoor gatherings at pubs after cases coming from the pubs. It is now over 20. New zealand trading modestly higher, about. 25 . Some significant
The left column, a lot of those names in the green. Banking names as well. The rest of the region still seeing a lot of pressure. The split is tilted towards more downside. In terms of the sector groups as well, the similar to what we have seen. Youre getting a lot of upside in names like resources, banks, financials are seeing pressure overall. Down for a sixth straight session. 25 from the peak a couple of eci weeks ago. Yvonne back from the slopes. And back in hong kong. Steve, we have been talking about that pivot from President Trump. Painting a dire outlook on this outbreak in the u. S. Why . Wasell, i hope that he looking at the data and also seeing what other, even local news abilities are doing in the United States, cites and states aswell cities and well those in europe and they are taking this very seriously. And donald trump says it is bad. He repeated that. Its bad, its bad. He said this could last until august or even later. Hes calling it an invisible lining. Yo enemy. Y
Americans, its bad. The infection adds to the oil slump. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We were seeing earlier losses gaining three tents of 1 , but its still early in trading coming off the worst day again since 1987 and losses accelerating and falling to session lows. President trump talked about economic disruption lasting well into the summer. The dow now falling to the lowest level in two years. Losse talking about a 30 since the peak in february. We are seeing the Downside Pressure with the s p 500 index. Every sector on the s p in the red with losses of at least 7 . Financials and real estate leading the declines. , fallingave small caps more than 12 . U. S. Futures at the moment, a little upside. Up 6 10 of 1 . We will see how things shape up as the asia session gets underway. Amid thesia wideranging meltdown with more central bank rates, moving to boost liquidity we had on monday. The bank of korea delivering a 50 basis point cuts in emerging mee
Far as asset classes. The asian index, down. 2 . Up 16 . Date, it is not too bad, but not the extent of what we saw on the s p. The csi 300 index in positive territory, up. 3 . The pmi numbers, beating expectations. 50. 2 versus estimates of 50. 1. Talked about a possible stabilization of the chinese economy and exports may return. Lets flip the page. Take a look at where we are in currencies. It has been a dollar story. It has been down for three days, the dollar index down by. 1 . For thear, falling Third Straight session, falling to its lowest in almost six months. Gold has been a huge surprise, continues on the upside, climbing for three weeks, largely to dollar weakness and the gold index, silver could be playing catchup. Reminder, some markets are shut today and you have some truncated sessions in singapore, hong kong, as well. We are shut in the next 60 minutes or so. Happy hour comes early for you today. Here is where we were on friday. Big gains. We were flat yesterday and it
Even though it might be a happy new year, not so happy in risk assets. Second down day. Dropping the most in more than three weeks. Caution coming into equity markets and risk assets here at the end of the year. Most currencies gaining against it. Edging out. Yield same dynamic where money is moving out of equities but also out of bonds. The10 year yield, it was arrest the stock the financial world. Carlos ghosn was put on trial in japan. Allegations that he denied. The former head of nissan said he fled to lebanon to escape injustice and political persecution. Lets bring in will. Great to have you with us. Carlos ghosn has been under house arrest and was allowed out on bail in april. How did he manage to get out of japan under such heavy surveillance . Surveillances is in the right term for this. Its a mystery. Has his threed he passports so perhaps he escaped from japan using a different name, different passport. But he was under very tight surveillance, house arrest since april. Ver