Services. Westpacs full year profits plunge after fines for Money Laundering. Cash earnings falls. One of those stocks where watching going into the sydney open. Lets look at the market open. Sophie . Expecting some moves this monday. The biggest weekly drop since september 25 as investors adjust the some of the risk ahead. We did have the worst week for aussie stocks since april. Adding 0. 1 . We have amp shares gaining trillionter the this wealth manager said that a preliminary takeover approach of every management values the company at 4. 5 billion. Westpac has results out this morning. Later this week we get results upm alibaba which ticked single day sales early on sunday. The ipo is a big event we are watching this week. We are expecting a big pop here on thursday given the massive appetite we have seen for the offering. Friday had the biggest drop since june. Of a private survey of chinese manufacturing data. To focus more on the u. N. , lets pull up on the chart on the terminal
On englands toughest lockdown level. Stocks higher on signs of a stimulus bill before the u. S. Possible. S still nancy pelosi tells bloomberg an agreement is urgently needed, by the white house warns there is still a ways to go. Shill. Etflix shares they miss estimates for subscribers. The forecast suggests the pandemic boom is starting to fade. You can see how the shares have fallen 6 . We are under one hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating this morning. Kind of a mixed picture and not a lot of size, no direction or size. Ftse futures are down 0. 10 . 0. 10 . Ures are up take a look at what u. S. Futures this morning after the netflix , ahead of thee tesla results, you can see gains here. 0. 5 . Tures of about nasdaq futures gaining 0. 3 . Anna lets get to the breaking news. We have data coming from the u. K. Inflation numbers first. The cpi number, month on month is a 0. 4 . Survey. St under the that seems to be the theme
Fed kicking off its meeting today. For more on what investors are watching, sarah hunt is here from alpine woods capital. What could the fed due tomorrow that would most upset the markets . Give i think they did not a lot of detail about how they were going to make sure when it was time for them to change their inflation standpoint, when was too much over. If they narrow the window and say we are looking for a tiny bit of on the inflation side. I think they are expecting inflation to run hotter if they get there for a longer time. And if they do something to narrow that window, that would make people more nervous. Newsbut in terms of the flow, have we already had it . Central banks have been dominant this year. It seems to me as if politics is beginning to take over as the key narrative, in london with brexit, and weve got all kinds of trouble in the mediterranean, we have got tension with china, and of course we have the u. S. Election coming up. So does this narrative now takeover fr
High. It is still heading toward its Third Straight winning streak, up 65 points. S p better by 22. The nasdaq up 148. You could argue that the dow and the s p are hamstrung by some serious weakness in financials, particularly regarding citigroup. That stock is taking a hit right now. Its down about 4. 7 . We are watching all the financials. Goldmans down i believe we also have Morgan Stanley down and some of the other big names. Tempest fugit when unveiling more than a dozen new offerings. Apple time flies event just ended with multiple bangs. We will start with the sizzle but theres a lot of steak here. Lets get with the apple watch to begin with. You got to do the colors, right . This is sort of the lighthearted stuff. Blue, a new blue, a new, i dont know, kind of rose gold watch, theres a bright ferrari red, you can see that right there. Then sticking with the sizzle, they hired an artist who came up with customizable faces for the new sixth generation apple watch face. It is calle
Mind lets go ahead and take a look at the state of the Global Economy and whats moving markets today with Todd Horowitz chief strategist at bubba trading and octavio c. E. O. Of optimists l. L. C. Thank you both for being here today octavia i want to start with you here i want to get your take on this Economic Data that we just talked about what do you make of this possible v. Shaped recovery in germany and with the rest of the eurozone facing inflation issues well off the e. C. B. As targets do you see the central bank injecting more stimulus to get things rolling. Well i think the projections coming from germany are new to the optimistic original the germans of being so minus the optimistic typically now their projections are predication quite a few things 1st of all theyre saying were not going to have further lock sounds and which means theres not going to be further outbreaks of covert im not quite sure how theyre able to make those projections i think the balance the risk in many