Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
The focus certainly on the u. S. Not only for the infections but of the transition period and what we can expect from the markets. The markets looking at some caution, we heard from Central Banks saying look, the vaccine is not going to be a cureall. If you look at what investors are trying to assess, it is additional stimulus, an economy that has been battered by these coronavirus cases that we have seen going up and up. Treasuries adding to the gains, and if you look at other things we are looking at, you know, the dging higher afterword that Dominic Cummings will leave his role with Boris Johnson at the start of the year. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hi, laura. Laura good morning, francine. Powell, ecb president christine lagarde, and Andrew Bailey used a Virtual Conference to highlight the risk. The post pandemic economy will be different in many ways. The 2020 election was the most secure in american history. They say there are is no e
Highs on the news with the money flowing to value and cyclicals. Havens are clawing back some ground today. Retaliation. The European Union will impose tariffs on 4 billion of u. S. Goods starting today. The eus trade achieve calls on both sides to drop countermeasures. A very good morning. If you think about it, we had that tantalizing, parabolic move, i would say, in this market yesterday evening. I was here late. Isar rationing around the markets i saw rationing around the markets. This morning, we face i suppose reality. Feels like a massive night out and this morning was a bit of the hangover reaction. Michael purves says it perfectly, talking about the vulnerabilities of the vaccine narrative. If the republicans gain control of the senate, this is very much so for them less onerous to want to do a fist lee onus less onus for them to want to do a big fiscal package. Lets take a look at what we did see yesterday, that euphoria manus is talking about. I want to show you the close ye
Fromw a bit of whip sawing the euphoria we saw yesterday on the back of the vaccine that was very promising from pfizer and biontech. Lets go straight to the markets and give you an idea of what they are doing this tuesday morning. The focus is on gold, some other things. For example, such as european stocks in general. Again, im excited to speak about the vaccine euphoria and some of the hurdles ahead. Maybe a little bit of profittaking after the rally we saw the last few days. Maybe the question of the vaccine is the question of the day. Bloombergto first word news and laura wright. Lauara the European Union is imposing tax on 4 billion of u. S. Good starting today as part of that titfortat escalation. Spirits, nuts, tractors and videogames. The eu says it will drop the duties if the u. S. Dropped levees imposed back in 2019. The u. K. House of lords has rejected breaking International Law over brexit. Voted to remove the most controversial part of the bill which comes with legal act
Stocks into value encyclicals keep up . Havens are bringing back some ground. The Federal Reserve warns there could be major downside for asset prices if the Economic Impacts of the virus is not mitigated. Will a vaccine or stimulus come soon enough . Welcome to the program, happy tuesday. Picking news from the u. K. , jobs data giving us a picture of the damage done or avoided on the u. K. Economy. The unemployment rate, a three month figure, we get an ,nemployment rate of 4. 8 exactly what was anticipated. It was on the rise. Very cushioned by the furlough scheme over the summer, and the end of september. Where we are on the jobless claims number, we have i go to this because we do not have survey data but it is interesting because it is october data, a little more impactful. The jobless claims change down by 29,800. , that looks lower than the prior period. Some of the data seems an improvement on the previous period. I go to that redhead line on the u. K. Unemployment story. 164,00