For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
In case of s p 500 and whats happening and dow up better than 40 from that period. The dow hovering over 26,154, a little more than what, 3,000 points from alltime highs reached in february . It is a bit of a remarkable turn around here. We are on top of that. Were on top of promising signs when you hear mark zandi, the moodys chief economist who is now saying that the covid19 recession is over. That job losses are not as bad as feared. That he sees a pickup in jobs starting in this month. He was mr. Doom and gloom. If you want to be contrarian, run the other way on that. For him to say that this might be the worst that has come and gone, better days are ahead that is greasing the skids for more buying. Were following that. Following what is happening on the Interest Rate front as they pick up. Again it is really reflection of the improving global economy, keeping an eye on that. Keeping an eye right now on new york city and whether things can kind of be what they were like last night.
Will allow us to master this challenge while delivering First Quarter profit slumps at hsbc and the bank warns that the coronavirus will have an impact the cfo says the outlook is improving for one key market caller we are beginning to see signs of recovery in china in particular, lesser extent in hong kong. We do think Economic Activity in q1, we do expect to see a recovery going into the Second Quarter. Novartis beats expectations as the swiss pharma giant be benefits but says potential treatment needs more time. Bp says environment is brutal and unprecedented we are very, very focused on driving that base even down and getting it to less than 35 a barrel next year and beyond if possible President Trump says china could have stopped the coronavirus from spreading adding his administration is probing what happened and warning beijing of consequences. There are a lot of ways you can hold them accountable. We are doing very serious investigations, as you know. We are not happy with chin
Increasing pessimism about growth. More ceos than ever see a slowdown. Sophie chinas mystery virus is spreading through persontoperson contact. Hubs stepping up passenger screening. Lets turn to selina wang in beijing with australian markets coming online. Selina we did see australian markets red hot. We are now starting to see them drift slightly lower, marginally except for the new zealand up. 2 after gaining 3 since the start of this year. We did yesterday see the equities hit record highs when it comes index price and private equity valuations. So, that would be enough to ring bells in normal times but our strategists say that macro backdrop in australia is dire enough to call this rally into question when you consider the massive wildfires that are damaging their economy. With increasing focused on environmentally sustainable investing, that rally is potentially at risk. I want to check on that a little bit more with this next chart. Thelook at that rally in context of the u. S. C
Worlds largest plane maker surpassing boeing. Questions mount over Carlos Ghosns escape his lawyer will hold a press conference on january 8. Good morning, everybody. Happy new year and thank you for tuning in to cnbc. On january 2, a lot to get through today. We are getting the final eurozone manufacturing data for december that comes in as a whole higher than the flash estimate coming in at 46. 3 versus the initial estimate of 45. 9 the manufacturing down turn deepened towards the end of 2019, we are seeing signs things are beginning to stabilize at least in the right direction in terms of individual countries just before street signs started, we would have had the final manufacturing numbers that came in at 43. 7 versus 43. 4. Germany is one of the reasons. The ago ra gat number is higher and france coming in in italy, coming in at 46. 2 versus the estimate of 47. 6. We are looking at better numbers for germany and france, worse for italy. On the whole for eurozone, the numbers are