Sanctions on hong kongs leader its police chief and other officials. Help but lost the kenyans who lost their livelihoods because of coronavirus question of why its taken so long. And im really a supporter you ventus sack. Of the telly in champions on knocked out of the champions league. The cleanup of lebanons damaged capital is about to give way to a new show of anger a mass protest against the government and the ruling political classes there is getting underway in beirut is just gone 4 pm local time these are the live pictures coming to us from martyr square at the scene of tuesdays port blast search teams are still looking for 60 people reported missing 157 a confirmed another 6000 were. Injured among those killed the secretary general of the cutty party his funeral was held just a few hours ago where 3 of the party m. P. s resigned they now say they will push for political reform turkey has offered to help rebuild the port as Vice President and foreign minister are both in beirut
At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
Economists expect a bond buying to exceed 3 trillion euros this year and the next. Twitter shares fall after hours on when unprecedented hack of the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gates. Ceo jack dorsey calls it a tough day. Welcome to the program. A tough day for jack dorsey. We will get into that story a little bit later on. Just under an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading on this thursday morning. Lets look at European Equity market futures, u. S. Futures. All of that pointing a little bit negatively. It seems some of the optimism around vaccines that dominated trading yesterday, some of that has waned just a little. Replaced by a mixed picture signals on geopolitics and the chinese data. Lets get to some breaking news. We have european Passenger Car sales dropping by 24 in june. European car sales, the slump slowly eases, believe it or not with a 24 jump. The recovery has been taking place now for a second straight month, leaving ma
U. S. The global focus. Ines surged cases surged california and texas. Walmart demands customers wear masks. Knowing green. New south wales has a new plan for renewable power, energy and the environment. Quick check of the markets, u. S. Futures opening flat. This after u. S. Stocks climbed to a fiveweek high in the regular session. We have 10 of 11 s p 500 sectors closing up. He had vaccine developments bringing this rush of optimism to financial markets. This, despite escalating tensions between china and the u. S. Moderna and astrazeneca are rising on the optimism. More positive ecodata, u. S. Industrial output rebounding in june. Pickup in Economic Activity. Take a look at what oil is doing. Under a little pressure, headed towards the 40 per barrel level. This after jumping to a four month high. We had strong ecodata and we have President Trump indicating he doesnt want to add more sanctions against chinese officials for now, not to mention a report on a drop on u. S. Crude stockpi
Texas sees record daily infections. Walmart demand shoppers wear masks. Some of the most prominent have beenn america hacked. We will have the latest. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up when it comes to the futures session going into the start of trading this thursday in asia. Take a look at u. S. Futures pointed a little bit to the negative, flat at the moment for futures contracts after u. S. Stocks climbed to her than a one month high. We had renewed optimism that we are getting closer incrementally on this Virus Vaccine Development front, not just with the news on moderna, but also a rival set of trials being conducted in the u. K. , reporting some progress. We saw the s p gaining just shy of 1 and actually manage a drift back into positive territory for the year, albeit brief. Chicago looking modestly higher after the bank of japan governor , kuroda, provided some clarity albeit still a very dire outlook when it comes to the japanese economy but saying it was now past the w