Germany sees the economy shrinking at least 5 . This, as fears of a virus followup could last for years. We hit our we will hear from ceo bill winters this hour. Haidi lets look at trading when it comes to australia. Asia looking softer, potentially modest bump up after u. S. Stocks saw the first gain in three days of losses. In new zealand, trading is dataway, retail sales is a point we will be looking at later to give us an indication, not super forwardlooking, but at least how things stand in terms of the fed rate period, asia excluding japan looks like it has had a flat week so far. That is u. S. Future. Waitinghe bond market, for the ava bond purchase, the aussie yield curve steepening ahead of the government announcing option plans for the coming week. We could see a bump up in primary activity, looking at the threeyear yield to and the week below target after the central bank boosted liquidity and calmed down money markets. We are watching banking stocks after they cut fees, one
Kicks in in china and the u. S. Manufacturing sector contracts for the first time in more than three years. All three major averages ending the day in the red is this just the beginning of a bigger september slide guy . We talked about it last week. Quite frankly i thought we would rally today, i thought thursday, friday made sense we rallied, i thought we would rally again today and towards the end of the later part of this week, early next week we would start to slide. Things are not bullish for stocks right now if the only case for bullish in stocks is that valuations are reasonable and rates are going lower i think you are on pretty thin ice it feels like the market needs to have the next leg down. What ive said before and what i will say again, i think the market bottom will be defined when the vix trades on or around 30, we are at basically 20 now you do the math. I think there is a huge move coming and i think its going to sort of begin in the middle part of this month. Dan yeah
Street hands in its worst day of the year the selling was widespread all 11 sectors finishing the day deep in the red led lower by technology the cause china. That nation effective i. Weaponizing its currency sending the yuan lower, turning the the trade war into what many are considering right now a fullblown currency war. Weve got full Team Coverage of this dramatic turn of events lets things off with bob pisani live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Hey, bob and melissa, we had a tough day here i want to give a sense of what happened last time china devalued its currency. This was about five years ago in august 2015. The last time china devalued its currency was in august 2015. That happened on three consecutive days of devaluations that was beginning on august 11th the market was very different back then. It was a different picture for the overall markets. Chinas currency was appreciating back then thats a big difference to now the stock market in china was just roaring