Policy speech. The city faces rising infection rates and a clamp from beijing. Joe biden names his Foreign Policy and Security Team as he with to calm Relations International friends and foes. He says america is back ready to lead. Haidi lets look at the set up at the start of trading. We are seeing some green shoots at the open, about. 4 higher. Global stocks as well as asian stocks continuing to be on a tear. We are watching keenly for developments in kiwi assets, given we had the rbc releasing its semiannual stability report. This is pushing the kiwi dollar higher. U. S. Ashed through . 70 yesterday and we are seeing expectations of negative rates dissipate even further. Unlovedtors rotate into areas, it may not mean the end of things that have been successful so far. John praveen is Portfolio Manager for qma. He joins us on the phone from new york. We are talking about what happens to big tech given the rotation trade gaining a more solid footing. Is it the behavioral changes, chan
Lifeline. We will hear from the Morgan Stanley ceo on the big 13 billion acquisition of e trade. Paul. Paul thanks, emily. Lets check on how futures are looking in asia. Looking like a much quieter day than yesterday. Sydney futures looking fairly flat right now. U. K. Futures looking weaker by 0. 4 . A bit of a move down in costly futures. We saw u. S. Markets ending modestly low. Concerns about earnings downgrade. More on that later. New zealand also trading right now. Currently flat. Emily thanks. Lets get a check of where the u. S. Markets closed today. Taylor riggs is in the newsroom. What were the highlights . Taylor sort of a risk off day. Really 500 Big Companies leading the losses. Bonds rallying five basis points after the crucial 1. 51, and the yield curve is inverted by the most since october, six basis points. Take a look at the chart in my terminal that put the selloff into perspective. The chip performance relative to s p 500 performance is still near an 18 year high. On
Party. And bitcoin. Well show you charts that will cheer those betting on a cryptocurrency crash. Betty it was quite chilly here today with that bomb cyclones blanketing the northeast. The natural Gas Producers quite warm and happy. A quick chart to show you where we are. Prices skyrocketing. Polar blast we have had today, and aiding in a winter storm. In a wintering storm. Youve really see the stress on the market. Some market paring back to the polar vortex back in 2014. How are you getting home tonight. Betty we will have to figure that out after the program. This winter blast did not keep investors away from equities. S p hitting records again. The dow adding on 150 point and nasdaq also higher as well. Tech stocks continue to rise. Onel stock down based growing concern over the security flaws in their chips. That is one we continue to watch. Yvonne stocks here on because of their best week in 6 months. New zealand kicking off flat and the kiwi at 71. 53. Australia just came under
Also for the white house who did issue a very good session into the u. S. And asia. A similar theme in europe, strong open for stoxx 600, opening up 0. 4 stronger lets take a look at individual bourses. The picture is very positive this morning ftse 100 up almost 0. 2 . Xetra dax, cac starting the day off on strong footing. In europe we get the flash cpi at 10 00 in the morning. Thats expected to dip from1. 5 to 1. 4 . The picture is positive. You can see every single sector is in the green. Its a tremendous start to the day. Autos leading the charge thats surprising given the auto numbers in the uk were quite weak overall that sector has been in the news the past couple of days a lot of an cysts are rerating some of the key chips in that sector to buy. It looks like the outlook for autos is positive. Healthcare is also up 0. 7 the laggard this morning i telecoms, struggling to keep pace with the other sectors. And retail continues to lag a bit. Of course we did have those super weak e
Low. Our road map with stock futures in the red. Exxon and conocophillips moving some of those stocks. Sales force surging on the news it hired advisors to look at takeover offers. More of the apple watch dlis. A defective component to blame. Apple announcing another partnership with ibm. Well get to that in a minute. First up a lot for investors to digest on this final trading day of april. Consumer spending up 0. 4 last month. Claims down last week by 34,000 to 262,000. Thats a 15year low. Employment costs up 0. 7 . On the earnings front, exxonmobil did top estimates despite a 46 drop in First Quarter profit. Exxon revenue, i love these figures. Last year 106 billion. This quarter, 67 billion. You have to understand exxon had good production growth. People say no one got hurt buying the stock of exxon. This is why. Because exxon really hasnt done anything during this period. When oil was flying exxon did good not great. Oil goes down, exxon shows you the breadth of its products and w