Eager to buy or sell stocks ahead of next weeks feder reserve meeting, but they were eager to sell shares of gottenductors which hav themselves caught in the middle of the trade war with china. Add to that the rising geopolitical tensions in the gulf of oman which lifted oil prices for the second straight day and when all was said and done, the dow wasn just 17 points and were at 26,789. The nasdaq was down 40 and that was the Technology Stocks there and the s p was down four and for the week all of the major averages were up only fractionally. Mark thsantoli seems tha market is teetering. Its something of a crossroads. While the s p 500 held the gains with the 5 rebound from the start of june. Tradingdolume slond the indexes worked sideways ain investors re in suspense on a couple of crucial policy issues. The Federal Reserve meets next week as the bond market hasov in to price in high chances of a rate cut by july. The slowdown in Global Growth and decline in the inflation rating as
Wilfred frost. Lets check on Global Markets because we are on this friday seeing gains, at least on the futures side of things you can see futures pointing to a higher open, the s p up by about six points, the dow up by about 78 and the nasdaq up by about 13 points overall. Lets get a check on the fixed income markets on the treasury side specifically with the tenyear u. S. Treasury note, yields are 2. 362 , a little lower than they have been over the last couple of days. So the Interest Rate picture taking a little bit more clarity given the feds Interest Rate hike and some commentary about the future still, though, yields in focus, especially for those financials, courtney. Lets look at whats going on around the world in trading. So take a look at what happened in asia overnight. Mostly lower, as you can see the south korean kospi is the one outlier higher by about 0. 5 the hang seng was the biggest laggard, down 1 a lot of focus on whats going on here in the u. S. When it comes to o
The russia 10year drops after they eased more than people expected and said there could be lower rates, more than people thought asked year. Of we are looking at the home, stock index, that is down 1. 5 . Volatility is the highest in the year. Of this stems from the idea that global banks are going to enter into a tightening cycle. The u. K. 10year is dropping by two basis points. The bank of england is probably not going to raise rates anytime soon, growth is not jumping off in any major way. The brexit negotiations are ongoing and complicated and possibly getting more complicated, if possible. Alix it was steady as she goes, not doing anything to ruffle feathers. Supportive of markets, if anything were to disrupt them, that could equal to a negative yield index. Alix lets talk about what its making headlines. This is emma chandra. Emma brexit talks can enter phase two here and they agreed that the british Prime Minister has complied with their divorce conditions. Now they will discus
Highest close, though, since 1996. Good morning, everybody. This is daybreak europe. Matt good morning, anna. Guy good morning, matt. Nna good morning, matt lets talk about whats going on in spain. The chartier tracks the biggest etf that tracks spanish equities and the appetite weve got for that. The president of catalonia seeking talks with Central Government in madrid, not mentioning unilateral independence. That is sending more money into this etf that tracks spanish stocks. We have seen money coming out of. His particular etf we signed trading at volumes that were 700 of normal daily volumes, and we saw the euro gain a little bit. You will see that the euro is Still Holding on to some of those gains. Its funny, i was looking at the exact same etf here on my screen as well. Also, the euro, as you mentioned, holding on to some of the gains. Take a look at the risk radar this morning. I am going to kick it off with the euro. Spain front and center as far as what is going on. In dolla
U. S. Equity futures have been indicated higher after the markets were down yesterday. The first time in seven sessions that the dow and nasdaq were down this morning a rebound from that these were modest declines yesterday and this morning s p futures indicated up by three. The nasdaq indicated up by 2. 5 overnight in asia, we have seen some gains in some asian markets. The nikkei up by a half percent. How many winning streaks is that 16 in a row that weve seen for the nikkei now trading at 21,805. Hang seng closed down bay half p percentage point in europe, as you look at some of the early trading, you will see green arrows across the board. Modest advances. Ftse up by 0. 4 . The cac is up by a quarter percentage point the dax up by 0. 2 look at crude oil prices looks like crude this morning is up wti up by 444 ce cents, brent u 57 cents. News out of Chinas Communist Party congress, members confirm president xi jinpings status as the most powerful leader since mao by writing his name