To the right with his choice of amy coney barrett. It would make it a 63 conservative split. Hitting a high know. Aims top behind bts raise 800 million in koreas largest ipo in years. Lets take a look at how we are setting up for the asian trading session. They hope to follow the momentum we saw in the u. S. Session on friday in particular with these gains in tech stocks. S p futures looking pretty positive,. 3 . Optimism as we get to the open in tokyo. A quiet first half of the week. We do have japanese throughput later on this week as well as decisions out of the philippines as well as india. Disney futures up by. 3 , as they continue to see growing concerns about the impact on the economy when some of these fiscal support measures start to peter out. We do have some optimistic news when it comes to the listing in victoria. New zealand off by 1. 5 . Dragged down by some of the dairy names. Tom the clock is ticking on tiktok. We are in our way from trumps ban that takes place midnight
Switch the dow around would we be looking at essentially the same falloff . Essentially we would. This is taking nine of 12 key sectors down. Financials are holding up pretty well today but a lot of this was driven right now by concerns, comments made by dr. An any fauci. I believe he was doing interview on cnn he expressed doubts having a vaccine ready by october. I think there was leaping on that as excuse to sell, just as it could be a leap on Mitch Mcconnells comments that we might not get a deal together, spending measure, virus, stimulus deal together anytime soon. And that he doubts they will be on the same page, republicans and democrats anytime soon. Add to that that weve got new u. S. China tensions. This didnt get as much attention. It has nothing to do with trade per se but with the administration move to impose restrictions on chinese diplomats already here. I do think when you get a selloff going, people collect all of this together, say, sell, sell. It is not that neat a
Ago. S p down by 151. And the nasdaq would open down by about 435 points this is limit down, they cant trade lower than this. Declines at 5 across the board. If this holds at the open, heres what you can expect in terms of the nyse Circuit Breakers that kick in. If the s p 500 dropped by 7 during the course of normal trading, trading halts for 15 minutes to have a cooloff period if it falls by 13 , it halts for another 15 minute period if it falls by 20 trading halts for the remainder of the day since these were implemented many years ago, weve never seen the levels tested. If youre watching the treasury market this morning, the ten year, almost impossible to believe watching how quickly things have fallen the ten year is yielding 0. 487 . Its been less than a week since it fell below a 1 yield and we have seen it collapse. Thats a bounce from earlier. So much of this has been keying off to whats taking place to crude prices over the weekend. Well explain what happened but you dont see
Next week. The brexit drama. Boris johnson skipped a News Conference as his host says the u. K. Is not serious about talks. Shery lets get you started. We are seeing u. S. Futures slightly higher by. 1 . This after the s p 500 slumped the most in two weeks. Coming after President Trump announced an initial trade agreement with japan. When it comes to the safe haven moves we saw in the last session, we had wti crude higher, the biggest gain since february of 2009. Those are being reversed with gold futures getting pressure, down. 3 . Not to mention, wti holding above the 60 per barrel level but still under pressure, down 1. 5 , this after jumping 13 in the previous session, given the previous attacks on saudi arabia and Oil Facilities. Lets see how things are shaping up in the asian markets. Sophie there may be impetus for Risk Appetite after the mixed session we saw on monday when Energy Shares rallied while Financial Firms led declines. U. S. Japan lines on the trade deal being narrow
And, what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin give opening remarks about his priorities and things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation. He and i will engage in backandforth and talk about what he mentioned in his opening remarks, and it is my hope to allow time for questions. Without further ado, dr. Griffin. Dr. Griffin it is a pleasure to be here. The last time i was here was in april of 2018. After i was two months was confirmed as the undersecretary, and it was still three months before i was the head of an actual Legal Organization within the department of defense. We were still working on establishing a charter and all of the bureaucratic things one does to convert legislation into executive branch institutions. Months since i have been here, we have been busy. We have filled out the senior bank levels of our organ senior levels of our organization. Porter you know dr. Lisa as well as our directors for Defense Research and engin