After months of no magic, Shanghai Disney throws open its doors today. We will assess theme parks in the coronavirus era. Mixed we are looking at a , possibly positive start for asia. Lets go over to sophie looking at the markets. Sophie asian stocks setting up for a week delivering more Corporate Updates with about 500 companies on the msci aipac to respond this week. And the impact of lockdowns certainly how look growth will be impacted is going to be in focus. We will look at korean trade for may area so this one is edging lower, may. This one is edging lower. Chicago nikkei futures edging higher. The 10year yield adding seven basis points. Tracking the move we have seen of supplyelds pressures prelooking at the offshore yuan over 7. 09. It will bring us Monthly Economic activity data from china this week. Look at the pboc plans to strengthen Monetary Policy report and Pay Attention to growth and jobs on the mainland. Lets look at commodities this morning, oil edging lower after two
Loom over the market. And the u. S. And china continue to trade barbs over the handling of the crisis. Washington says the world has been let down. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures looking like this. Unchanged at the moment. This, after we saw a broadbased rally in the regular session. This halting a two day slide. We had the latest around corporate earnings showing a little more positive sentiment. Chipotle and Texas Instruments rising on solid result. We had tech leading the gains with the nassau composite seen the best day in about one week, reversing yesterdays weakness in tech and chipmakers as well. We have a little more optimism about the eventual reopening of the economy as well, so we had this pullback in treasuries confirming this riskon move. Take a look at what oil is doing. We saw oil rising from record lows in the new york session. Barrel right 14 a now as President Trump ordered the navy to deploy any uranium boats i
In infections or deaths could mean the tokyo economy could go in reverse. There is cautious optimism in europe. Spain and italy reported a decline in infection rates as people are told to stayathome over the easter break. Haidi we are getting breaking news out of south korea. The latest reading of the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic having on this explosive economy. Of threetting a plunge point 8 when it comes to Industrial Production. That is actually better than the survey. We were expecting a contraction to the tune of four point 5 but 3. 8 percent contraction, worse than a contraction we saw in the month of january. When it comes to the year on year number, 11. 4 gained. A lot better than the 3. 4 that was surveyed and bouncing back well and truly from a contraction of 2. 4 percent. Seasonality issues will also be at play but we are expecting to it continued disruption when comes to supply chains, manufacturing, and overall industrial productivity and activity in korea a
Investors say there is little chance of warding off a recession. The bank of japan is next. Governor kuroda may be more aggressive as the virus further weakens the economy. U. S. Futures start trading in the negative right now. Under pressure right now. 3 percent. Even after we saw the worst day since 1987. Forident trumps travel ban europe not today well with investors. Take a look at what we saw throughout the session. It was an incredible day on the s p 500. The fiveminute trading. If you can switch up the board, you can see what happened throughout the session. We were down 7 . We did see a little bit of a bounceback around 130 when the fed came in with surprise Market Operations. We have the fed ramping up measures to help the markets and liquidity with more than 5 trillion being promised. 1 30, that Center Markets a little higher. That did not last long. You can see how the 10 year yield did manage to pervak some lower,e but it was still around. 8 . The same thing for the u. S. D
A deadly rocket attack on a coalition base the u. S. Launches a new round of airstrikes in iraq. The escalating coronavirus emergency has sent stocks crashing to their worst losses in 30 years and bester has continued to bailout in the u. S. Europe asia and the middle east and the travel restrictions and business shutdowns that are bringing economies to a halt italys ramped up its lockdown closing bars restaurants and shops all france norway and ireland are among the latest countries to close schools and universities efforts to stop large gatherings to lead to severe restrictions on sporting events european football leagues and american basketball baseball and hockey games are among those suspended it will begin our coverage with whats been a torrid day for Global Markets on wall street the Dow Jones Industrial average sank almost 10 percent its worst losses since the black monday crash of 1907 and london the 100. 00 close down almost 11 percent all european markets together dropped 12