Said yesterday, you know very well what you said yesterday, it was a big story. I just dont know how they cannot recuse themselves for anything having to do with trump or trumprelated. The right thing to do. As a Supreme Court justice, there is a different standard. At the same time, i think it is a higher standard in a certain sense. Her statement was so inappropriate. When you are a justice of the Supreme Court, it is a like what you strength to do is take the people that do feel a different way and get them to vote the way that she would like them to vote. I thought it was so inappropriate, such a turbo statement for a Supreme Court justice. What was inappropriate about the statement . I am not an attorney, so i cant she seemed to criticize the white house for running to the Supreme Court at the drop of a hat to seek pres. Trump no, that wasnt it. I think she is trying to shame people with perhaps a different view into voting her way. That is so inappropriate. Lets see what happens.
The 10 year yield at 1. 56 . The dollar index continues to strengthen, and crude oil is above 53. Guy we are seeing Dollar Strength beginning to ease a little bit right now, but you still got the dollar up against the turkish lira. The Turkish Central Bank cutting rates again. Still, the pressure is building on the lira. Eurodollar flat to negative right now. We are still below 1. 08. How low does the single currency go . European stocks not at session highs, but fairly close to them. Oday vonnie we begin with the latest on the coronavirus as china makes moves to stimulate the economy. Possible bailouts for hardhit Industries Even as the death toll continues to rise. Bloomberg also reporting that china plans to take over the indebted conglomerate hna group. For more, lets get to bloombergs Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Continuings and illnesses. What is the latest. Mr. Prystaiko with the report sophie with the report on hna group, bloomberg has learned conglomerate is in talks with t
We are down across the board these would be losses for the week that will end four weeks of gain weve seen up to this point. Does this count as the first week of 2020, even though it is only two days . We could look at the fiveday thing and if it is up, we could say that is the first week this is up as we see crude oil prices jumping we see that wti is up 4. 1 the gain to 63. 72 a barrel ice brent up by 4. 3 Natural Gas Prices up. Crude is the real focus as tensions are on the rise in the middle east. The market is up 30 from last year that is a place for people to look this year as for gains. We are moving crude from 60. We are not moving from 62 but based on the tensions rising you think about the heighten tensions and what this will mean for the potential repercussions in the middle east the idea of additional strikes of any ships going through the straits of hormuz, people will be watching that closely theyve been blessing with the Oil Production for months. We always look forward
Global stocks despite lingering tensions between washington and tehran. Ubs shakes things out. The swiss bank splits its Wealth Management unit into three, cutting up to 500 jobs and naming two new Division Heads. And made in china. Elon musk is in shanghai as the consumer rollout of tesla vehicles finally takes place. We are on the ground all morning. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Take a look at futures here. You will see that they are up across the board. We have gains in asian stocks, which are pushing up european futures, dax futures, up. 6 , as are ftsefutures as futures. U. S. Indexes rose yesterday. We are seeing green arrows again in terms of futures with about 5. 5 hours to go until the start of trading. Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna pulling up the gmm function on the bloomberg, and we are bouncing across these asian equity markets, getting some upside coming through on the japanese markets. We are close
Shery and a rocky road ahead for china. The worlds top auto market heads for an unprecedented second Straight Year of failed declines. Comingnd south korea online. Here is what to watch. Sophie stocks open higher with nikkei and topics opening with two. 2 . Data earlier this week showing a pickup in business spending and reduced prices. The yen looking steady after jay powells speech which reinforced the dollar has a negative bias. Which assets will benefit most from the feds 2020 outlook . We will check in on the open in seoul. 7 . Ospi up we have aussie shares moving to the downside with a risk on move this morning. Futures are also gaining ground. It lets check in on currencies this morning. The aussie dollar bumping its timeagain for a sixth moving below 68. 80. And the british pound back up above 132 above 1. 32. More on u. K. Politics now, heres a check of first word news. U. K. Votes later thursday in an election that will defined the relationship with the eu for years to come.