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
Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve
Bank should have never taken Jeffrey Epstein on as a client as it agrees to pay a 115 million fine. Confirmed drove cases in america have crossed the 3 million mark while the death toll has made the biggest one day jump since early last month. Lets look at the markets as they double down on the concerns around the coronavirus and of course the Economic Impact the European Markets had a contraction. Decent forecasts for investors to rake through just highlighting some of the fears that many have had in the spike of fresh cases we are seeing in terms of the Market Action, we are picking up on the wall street trade and to European Markets that reversed. You can see another modest decline. 1 3 of a percent coming off the benchmark. The sectors and the boards the ftse trade is down by. 2 of a percent. It is a minimal decline. Were hearing further reports around consumption, any further scheme to try to support market businesses that has meant we are just down modestly this is what you are s
Good morning im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan heres how your money and the Global Markets are setting their day up with stock futures relatively muted you can see at the opening bell we could be up 35 points for the dow. S p 500 up roughly 8 points implied and the nasdaq up by about 52 thats if the futures moves hold before the opening bell for regular cash equities trading. This after the dow fell nearly 400 points yesterday the s p 500 shedding just over 1 there as well snapping its fiveday winning streak. You can see the movement throughout the course of the day. Falling off towards the closing bell. Turning now to the bond market the yield on the benchmark 10year note yield is slightly higher you can see 65 basis points or. 65 . 2year note,. 16 . 30year 1. 38 lets go worldwide karen cho is live on the Worldwide Market losses yesterday, losses on wall street. Roughly down. 2 of a percent the ftse has minimized the losses as you threw it over to me, we popped into the green brief
The fed laid out plans to buy up individual Corporate Bonds this as the emergence of new coronavirus hot spots around the country add to fears of a second wave so why, guy adami, are markets seemingly so immune to these concerns is that actually a good sign for this rally no, its not. But before i have to i would be remiss, melissa, if i didnt wish the b. K. , the bitcoin baller a happy belated birthday. His birthday was yesterday do you know whose birthday is tomorrow i wont keep you in suspense adam smith would have been 297 years old tomorrow why do i mention him i had to read that book the wealth of nations in college. You probably read it as well he was the father of free market capitalism well, what you saw today was the exact antithesis of that and im going to get added by everybody. To think this market is at all free market is a fools folly. The fact that we rallied into this announcement by the fed, which we all saw coming or they announced it prior shouldnt really surprise a