Leventhal and liz young. Liz, is this all about stimulus or are were genuinely concerned about these cases were seeing in europe . And, by the way, were doing a lot of cases here every day, too. I dont think its all about stimulus but were in the middle of a really heavyweight news cycle and its not allowing us to look out any further than about 30 days at a time. Ultimately in 30 days time the market is lower than today just on monday the s p was up 5 month to date. That didnt make common sense. Were in the middle of a highly c contentious market season and were still waiting for stimulus in the short term i think we should see a pull back here but in the longer term and even in the next three to four months, some of the fear around a blue wave has been a little overblown and the market has to weigh the two sides. On one side we might see higher tax ees and stronger regulation and on the other side some of the tariffs may be rolled back as an investor, even if we have a pullback in th
Jakarta just coming online. Interesting when it comes to the hang seng, we are close to those session highs for the hang seng. Cathay pacific certainly one to watch. Spike onned that brief this governmentbacked rescue plan. We come back to earth a little bit. Still seeing shares elevated a little bit. Chinese stocks slightly lower. We missed on the Inflation Numbers. Small caps in china close to 20 higher from those lows we saw. India futures also pointing positive. We are watching the dollar as well. Down for nine of the last 10 sessions. A little bit of exception with the yen, 107. 79. The hong kong dollar still on the stronger side but kyle bass doubling down on his bet against the peg. We will see what kind of demand there is. Offshore renminbi pretty much unchanged right now. Haslinda lets stay with china. Factory prices continue to fall in may. The country continues to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Lets cross to selina wang in beijing. Break down the Inflatio
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