Arizona, and hospital cases in california all marking new highs. Plus top advisers to President Trump are set to urge the u. S. To undermine the hong kong dollar peg to punish china for its crackdown in the city. Ons get a quick check up how markets are set up for the open. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie in asia this wednesday, we are seeing a mixed start to the session with focus on china and if mainland stocks can keep up that rally we have seen for six days. Futuresd 14 so we have in the green for the most part. Hang seng futures settling higher after the rally did stall in hong kong on tuesday. Switching out the board, checking in on the hong kong dollar, which continues to have the 7. 75 mine as they continue to defend the peg, we are seeing little reaction in the curb. Jumping into the terminal for a big picture book, low 200 pips after the spike we saw in may but staying elevated on economic and political uncertainties. Tracking any reaction to a bloomberg report
Year not beating estimates. David it looks like their stock is down in the premarket about 2. 5 . Home depot before you so rudely interrupted me alix david is funny today. David not very funny. Per depot beat earnings share, a little light on revenue. They basically blamed a lot on lumber disinflation, basically. They are warning a lot about china. One is how they want to eat up the lumber costs, a 21 drop in the cost of lumber. At the same time, you have continued slowing homebuilding, but theres a lag for that. Home depot not necessarily feeling the full effect of that could weakness. Because of the price of lumber, overall sales are down. They took it down for the year. There estimates went down. Ls, theykoh reaffirmed their adjusted Earnings Guidance on that comp sales mess. We will dig into retail more over the next couple of hours. The equity markets looking a little bit soggy here, with s p Futures Party much flat. Dow jones off by about five. It doesnt feel like theres a lot of
Katie welcome to bloomberg markets. Take a look and we are on the back foot, the s p 500 up by. 3 . We are still above 5000 but we will see how long we hold that line area big tech not faring any better, nasdaq currently off by. 7 , a bit of a down drop now that we are through tech earnings. We wanted to take a look at the vix. It is moving higher but that handle not too impressive, training with a 13 handout on the vix but lets get back to earnings and t. J. Maxx. Discount retailer leading Sales Estimates in the Fourth Quarter but being overshadowed. We are joined now by simone foxman. How conservative was the guide . Simone that has been the reaction from citigroup, from bloomberg intelligence. They are looking for comp sales to rise to percent to 3 , both for their first order as well as their fiscal year. Compare that to what they delivered in the Fourth Quarter, comp sales rising 5 . They have been guiding much lower, a bit about expectations. The eating expectations and seeing gr
We will get a preview of the bloomberg screen time event in los angeles bringing together executive and industry insiders to talk the state of streaming and more. First, lets get a check of financial markets. Abigail for technology, were looking at a solid rally, up about. 3 . The s p 500 has been fluctuating. Beneath the surface, we have adobe popping amid a recent conference where ai, they were very positive on the future of ai for their company. Nvidia is higher. Citi is bullish on their september gaming data. Pelletier is up on the Army Contract they received. Relative to the nasdaq 100, it is the topperforming of the equity indexes. In october, it is up about 3 my closer to 4 . This is a different version of that month the s p 500 tech index is climbing. It is interesting because yields are influencing all parts of the market. It could be higher for longer, although there has been talking back by the fed and the haven bid on the geopolitical tensions, but we have today the dollar
But it did not close above that level. We saw the major averages give back by the end of the day some off the morning highs well keep a close eye on this this morning green arrows indicated once again this morning dow futures up by 57 points. S p up by 4. 5 points the nasdaq up by 8. 5 points. Look at asia, the nikkei gave back some grounds. Hang seng up by 0. 7 the shanghai was up by 0. 9 . Then if you check things out in europe, its a mixed bag ftse up by a quarter percentage point. The dax and cac are weaker stocks in italy are down stocks in spain slightly higher. Check out crude oil prices you will see that crude oil looks like it is up about 29 cents. 47 57. 45 for wti. We are watching a couple big stories this morning were learning more about that deadly amtrak crash in Washington State yesterday three people were killed, nearly 100 more injured when the train derailed the ntsb confirmed that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30mileperhour zone the crash left sev