Surging this morning. Away from that, a jumble of news as we try to reframe for the second half of 2020. Francine we will look at the second half of 2020 shortly. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Morning. Accountd south america from is two thirds of a new coronavirus cases and the latest reports. The death toll in brazil has now passed 50,000. There were a record 4500 new cases until or near. Florida reported more than 4000 cases on saturday, also a record. Back in england, Andrew Bailey has signaled a major shift in the strategy for removing emergency stimulus. Tos stressing the need reduce the Central Bank Balance sheet before raising Interest Rates. He has an oped in bloomberg opinion. He says this would give them more firepower in future crises. The disappointing turnout at was just the latest warning sign for his campaigns. Criticismrshadowed by about the pandemic in the protest against police brutality. The president has fallen behind joe biden in National Poll
The bank index up 2. 1 , telling you all you need to know. The 10 year yield is down to 67 basis points. There was a little bit of an increase in volatility today, up to 33. On the actual session, the vix index is slightly lower. Scarlet fu joins us halfway into the trading day for some more details on the scene. The scene seems to be about finding stability. If history is any guide, we are likely to get it. Seven times the s p 500 has fallen 2 or more since the market bottom on march 23. In six of those instances, the s p 500 came back to close higher. Indications we may continue to build on this advance. You mentioned leading the gains, regulators rolling back some of those put in place after the crisis. That should free up about 40 billion in capital. Regulators are modifying the bulk to allow increase of investments in d. C. Funds. You mentioned the stress test results after the close. Im keeping an eye on homebuilders because one trend that has emerged is the strength of housing.
Suggest a post virus recovery. Highest andsides smart and Mark Zuckerberg toends the response controversial president ial tweets but his unstaffed is not agree. But his own staff does not agree. To shrug offng tensions on the streets, curfews being applied in major cities. We are seeing asia heading into the wednesday session looking likely to extend the basking in the globe we saw overnight. We have nikkei futures in australia as well as in hong kong, all pointing to a positive start to trade. The dollar fell overnight, the yen also slunk leading to some positivity out of trading. The rckiwi pair trading at its highest since october, really an indication as we see these outperform, investors feeling risk on despite gdp numbers that could show the first technical recession we are headed into in about 30 years. Pretty flattrading after seven consecutive days of gains. Americans are bracing for another night of unrest. Cities have extended their curfews. Trumpile, president feeling embat
Curbs. The amount of storage is 300 higher than a year ago. And global virus cases top 7 million in less than a week after topping 6 million. The u. S. And u. K. Show signs of a slowdown. India and brazil are the new hotspots. Taylor lets get a quick check of those u. S. Markets and a reminder of how they ended. Erased all the losses that we have for 2020. The nasdaq 100 continues to post more record highs. You see futures taking that in stride, mostly unchanged after what has been an astounding past few days coming up the big fridays jobs report. The optimism continues here in the monday trading. I do want to see how things are shaping up for some of the asian markets. For that, we have Sophie Kamaruddin here. Are asian markets extending some of the optimism we got in the u. S. . So, even afterestly we got warnings from slowing growth from the world bank. Kiwi stocks adding about one third of 1 at the start. Clawing back year losses as the country with social distancing rules. Austral
The s p thought biggest rise in two weeks. Saw its biggest rise in two weeks. Korea may send troops to the dmz. Seoul remains on high alert. Shery lets get a quick check of markets. U. S. Futures under pressure. We have the s p 500 rising the most in more than a week. We had seen optimism over the u. S. Economy really offsetting any can turns over a second wave of virus infections. Nikki futures unchanged at the moment. We are waiting japans may trade data. The deficit likely narrowed. We had the boj increasing at support for corporate financing yesterday. Futures up 0. 6 . This after the best day in over two months. Yesterday, we did get the rba june Meeting Minutes with more concerns that the economy is likely to need policy support. Gaining. At the moment stocks reversing five sessions. Do watch out for new Zealand First quarter gdp numbers out later this week. Lines getting some across the terminal from jd. Com at of its trading debut in hong kong as the ecommerce player saying tha