Provide administrator to provide information about security protocols with chinese behemoth tencent. Meanwhile, bytedance and oracle have tentatively agreed to a deal has to be approved by the Chinese Government, and there is significant confusion about timelines. Lets check in without markets ended the day with senior markets correspondent scarlet fu , leading declines but outperforming all year. What has been happening . Scarlet there was a lot going on and to some extent, you can blame the federal reserve, j powell saying rate will stay at current levels, lower for longer, but investors were expecting a dovish surprise and were left hanging. When you look at equities, most of the damages from the large cap, big tech names, but it was a broad decline, eight out of 11 sectors in 20 active 24 sectors finishing lower. Outperformance today were value encyclical stocks. If you look at the past two weeks, it has been a clear theme. The two bestperforming groups were materials and industria
Agree on a deal which could see a new company if approved by President Trump. Haidi and the race for a china facesvaccine, a deadline on the growing kovacs plan. Little pressure at the open. This as u. S. Stocks dropped the most in a week in the regular session. Sentiment being damaged by poor economic data. Jobless came just jobless claims fell less the s p 500 fell for a second consecutive session, but found some support after bouncing off its 50 day moving average. The nasdaq was down more than 1 . We see itk at oil flat at the moment, around 40 a barrel. This after climbing when saudi arabia express determination to stop oh plex opec plus members, posting its largest three day gain. Kong to see g to see how things are shaping up. We have futures pointing to a mixed start. The regional index set to rise for the first week in three. We are keeping and i on toshiba with a chip unit on course to raise 2. 9 billion in a share sale in sydney. We are watching a bid to get a stake in italy
Company ipo in a year, if approved by President Trump. Is this ride hailer. Eeking to shore up cash haidi lets look at how we are setting up for the final trading session of the week in asia. After a pretty lackluster session, we had u. S. Stocks passing some of those parsing some of those losses, still dropping for a second day but finding support after bouncing off the 50 Day Moving Average on the s p. S p futures seeing a little positivity on the u. S. Fridays session, about 0. 2 higher. Tax leading the client is apple, facebook and peppe microsoft are weighing on declines. We saw a Little Movement in treasuries as well. In asia, the nikkei 225 is seeing an upside, 0. 1 when it comes to futures trading in chicago at the moment. Dollar weakness yen strength will be an issue, the. We have the yen appreciated to the strongest level in six months across broad dollar weakness. The u. S. Dollar index falling for a fifth straight session. We are also keeping watch on the dollar and how it
Official cash rate being kept on hold, 0. 25 . They are prepared to provide additional stimulus. Just keeping you crossing these additional lines coming through. Monetary policy needs to support the economy for a long time. The economic recovery is on track. The funding may be ready before the end of the year. There is progress being made on additional monetary calls. There has been a rise in unemployment and an increase in firm closures. These lines crossing the terminal now. They kept that cash rate on hold as expected. Just keeping calm and carry on. You mentioned that november review of the Monetary Policy tool. A lot of questions that they will deploy are negative Interest Rates. This is what the market seems to be pricing in. You see that new zealand 10 year yield ever so slightly get into those record those for yields right now at 47 basis points. Lets check the markets to see what else we were expecting. A lot of central bank action. At these newg zealand assets right now. We a
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the markets are looking at. We are trying to look out for any spot here in europe. Are am looking at what we in general focusing on, of away fromare that key data hours away from that key jobs data in washington. Of course labor day holiday, gold taking higher. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Avoiding a Government Shutdown right before the president ial election. Sources tell bloomberg House Speaker nancy pelosi, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and made this in full agreement on a phone call on tuesday. They were on a stalemate after virus relief to hold up a virus a stopgap spending bill. Meanwhile, Financial Aid to shore up the financial recovery, according to chicago fed president charles evans. He said the stalemate in washington is a significant downsize risk to the economy. Even with the deal, evans down beat on the econom