Going to session lows area traders have been looking past the escalating tensions to signs of the pandemic recovery. Hong kong is bracing for what the biggest protest in months as the City Government meets to discuss criminalizing disrespect for chinas National Anthem. Shery looking at markets trading at the moment, u. S. Futures are down. 1 as the s p 500 and the rest of the broader markets are in the green. Still fading in late trading sessions. The s p 500 going back below the 3000 level. It had stayed up but bloomberg reported the u. S. Is mulling sanctions on u. S. Officials and firms over Hong Kong Chinese officials and firms over hong kong. We got chipmakers exposed to china tumbling at the end of the session. The usual laggards led the gains today which was an interesting rotation when it comes to the markets. We had data, Consumer Confidence was stabilizing in may. Looking at a mixed session in asia as we get these conflicting signals like concerns over the u. S. China relatio
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This a while is natural gas. Prices is hanging on the energy markets. If we have those market boards for you, lets bring them up so i can go out for some of the things were watching out for. European stocks gain 1 . Brent gaining to around 40. On a thought there would be an agreement between opec and opec plus. Investors are eyeing a potential extension of record production curbs by opec plus. Looking at natural gas. This is because the spector of egative rates. P. M. I. Coming in a bit better than we thought. 30. 5 instead of the preliminary 28. 7. Now lets get straight to the first word news. Hi. Hi, francine. Unrest continuing across the United States overnight. President trump has come under Harsh Criticism for his response to the demonstrations. He is also not getting the backing of local governors over his offer to send in the military to prevent looting. Thousands ignored curfews last night. In germany, chancellor merkel failed to broker a deal on stimulus yesterday. A delayed p
Rate declining. Japan lifts its emergency measures in tokyo, saying theres no need for further restrictions. Scott morrison addresses the pandemic file that later. He is being told he has a once in a generation chance to reform the australian economy. Consider. S to as we get underway this Tuesday Morning in the asiapacific, keep in mind lots of markets were closed monday including the u. S. The futures, to use that is any guide, we can almost say we are in the asiapacific. We are getting this coming online. Up 30 points clear of where you last traded on the s p back on friday, in terms of the cash market. Spy futures indicating a big pop. On top of the best day on monday. Highs. March 111 philip the board and take a look at the currency markets with ecb in focus and perhaps we are getting signals and some comments from key policymakers, we could get more stimulus, probably on the way. I will be generous. The record low. The aussie offshore rate back in september. There we go in terms
There has not been immobilization like this since the second world war, especially ventilators, because it is hard. It is complex, a very complex machine, computerized all over the place, and very expensive, and right now we are building thousands of week. We have all we can use. You hear the calls. Frankly, you are invited to if you want, you do anyway even if you are not invited. And you see what is going on. Every governor there has not been one patient in this entire massive country and we did not have ventilators when we started. The cupboards were empty. The previous in ministry and left us empty cupboards. There is not one patient, not one, that needed a ventilator that did not get one. Think of that. We are talking about millions of people, big country. Millions of people. Not one person needed a ventilator that did not get it. So we want the continued, blanket lockdown to end for the states. Someave some members embers or some gashes or some flames coming, we will put them out