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
It is still on. President trump insists a phase one trade agreement with china is fully intact. Peter navarro claims his earlier comments were taken out of context after suggesting the deal was over. The European Commission is more confrontational. E. U. Lash out at beijing over hong kongs autonomy, disinformation, and foreign investor meant foreign investment. We are in brussels. Hard times for softbank. The Company Sells part of its tmobile stake, creating 21 billion dollars to help offset record losses in its investment business. We will have the details for you briefly. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning after we closed down yesterday in the u. S. And the u. S. Managed to eek out some gains. They are trading solidly higher. Dax futures are up. 6 percent. Ftse futures up about. 25 . What do you see on the gmm . Anna we have certainly been whipsawed by those comments by Peter Navarro on trade and the abil
Several u. S. States report record numbers of cases. States reconsider plans to open. To data inadds australia. Shery lets get started with how u. S. Futures are kicking off trading. We are seeing them down. 1 after u. S. Stocks ended in positive territory but off session highs. We have speculation congress will seek additional stimulus. We also have some positive manufacturing data, although not in expansion territory as of yet. The s p 500 finished at the highest level in almost two weeks. Consumer discretionary and tech lead the gains, and the nasdaq composite again finishing at an alltime high. Eight sessions of gains boosted by apple and amazon as well. The dollar declined among most g10 are his. We did get that positive economic data. Improvements not only in the u. S. But also the euro area. Take a look at what oil is doing at the moment. We are seeing wti falling toward 40 a barrel, under pressure right now, really falling from that threemonth high ahead of a release of a key u
Other. Yesterday, down over 200 adding that, you are down more than 1,000 points of decline in early session right now. Well see what the market does as we get close tore reopening and of course to the closing bell today s p 500 down 33 and nasdaq down 101. The central bank indicated it would keep Interest Rates near zero projected that the u. S. Economy will shrink by 6. 5 in 2020. They do see a gain they are expected by 5 in 2021 followed by 3. 5 gain in 2022 and will continue increasing Bond Holdings and Mortgage Backed securities at 40 billion a month. Take a look at the 10year note, yield now sitting at 0. 698 . Crude oil prices have also come down a little too. Wti is down about 3 this morning. Ticking at 38. 38 a lot of this is because of what the fed is you no saying you are really expecting some tough economic sledding. The news out of 12, 13 states probably not great either. I think it would be hard for me to sell right now. You wait around. We dont invest. You would have wis
From the bloomberg terminal. A 2 trillion dollar wipeout. U. S. Equities see their worst rout in 12 weeks. Is there more to come . The precipice of disaster. Americas fourthlargest city but it may reimpose Steven Mnuchin says the country cannot close again. Plus, european banks close to Capital Requirements. Just under an hour away from the start of trading. Futureske a look at after the big drop we saw. Saw drops in asian stocks overnight. If you look at yesterdays cash a drop in the dax. 559 points. 559 point drop. In terms of u. S. Futures, we see a little bit of green on the screen. 1. 5 gains in s p and the dow. Can news on the u. K. Economy, lets get straight to that. The u. K. Economy shrank by 20. 4 . That is versus the previous month. Dropstimate had been for a of 18. 7 percent. 19 or so. It does show a stunning drop in output for the u. K. Economy during specifically the month of april. The u. K. Went into lockdown around the month of march. We are getting some other numbers