Coronavirus case fails to improve overnight. The u. K. Prime minister is still conscious but has received oxygen treatment dominic raab is deputized. Equities heading for their first backtoback games in two weeks. Futures pointing higher in the u. S. While oil rises ahead of thursdays opecplus meeting. Coronavirusthe maybe reaching a plateau in europe as cases slow across the continent. Italy could start ending its. Ockdown on a gradual basis just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. A quick look at futures here. A gain in futures at the cash trade closed higher yesterday. Gains in u. S. Futures with the 0. 4 the dow s p up 0. 4 . Anna everybody still focused on what is going on with coronavirus globally. Cases are being handled and death rates. We need to get to the first word news update. Prime minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care. His Coronavirus Infection worsened. He had been selfisolating for 10 days, struggling to shake off covid19. Dominic raab is
Maintaining ties with venezuelas president. And sprint to the finish. Deutsche telekom sees profit rising as the companys tmobile unit edges closer to stealing a landmark u. S. Deal. Just under 15 minutes away from the start of cash equity trading in europe, lets take a look. Irst off at futures green arrows across the board put futures up. 7 , more than 50 points right now on that optimism about more stimulus injections coming from beijing. Take a look at u. S. Futures for the second trading day of the week. Remember, shorten holiday week. Still have a solid seven hours until u. S. Markets start to think about opening up. Throughout the morning. Lets take a look at the risk indicators we can glean from the gm them here. In terms of equity indexes, you can see in asia, we have decent gains here. In terms of forex, we can see a intle bit of a mixed picture terms of the hong kong dollar and japanese yen, little changed, but we do see some yen strength. You see that in some other assets a
Fires rockets at u. S. Military base its. Tehran says it doesnt want war. Boeing737 jet crashes in a ron shortly after takeoff due to stateat stadia media describes as technical issues. All people on board were killed. Carlos ghosn says nissan used him as a scapegoat to block further integration with renault. He speaks out in a press Conference Today in beirut. We are also getting german factory orders in the economic data. It does not look good. November factory orders dropped 6. 5 yearoveryear. November manufacturing orders dropped 1. 3 month over month. That we haverders been waiting for here in germany just dont look good. You want to pull that up on your bloomberg, type ego go. Pull down on the german flag. The picture is fairly dire. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Before the factory ders came through, they were bad enough. Now you can see, dax futures are down even more. 1 . More than double the losses that we see on ftse futures. In term
Shinzo abe announces a package with 240 billion. Will europe follow suit . Anna another luxury buyout . Kering has talks on a deal with montclair. In search of consensus, oil eases ahead of todays opec meeting after the biggest surge in over two months. We await the pricing of saudi aramcos ipo. Matt i am looking first and foremost at the pound as i pull up my worksheet this morning, i. Oticed another spike today this is the threeday chart. It looks like markets are getting more confident in conservative victory in the upcoming election, just a little over one week from now. Take a look at the futures in europe. We have trade optimism that started this time yesterday after a Bloomberg School saying the u. S. And china are closer to a phase one deal than the rhetoric would lead you to believe. The japanese stimulus witching , daxes up both in europe futures up 0. 2 , but the futures up 0. 2 as well, and in the u. S. U. S. Futures, green arrows. Dow jones, s p 500 many contracts in the g
Anna daimler out of the doldrums, the german carmaker beats estimates for the Third Quarter and will continue cutting costs. Tesla puts pressure on rivals after surprise profits. A challenging quarter. Operating loss this quarter as its income was impacted. To the stagetakes for the final time as ecb president. We are live in frankfurt all morning as he leaves behind a divided governing council. Matt miller is on the ground in frank for. Lets talk about markets. What are we expecting to see for equity market . A lot of green coming through. Dax futures suggesting upside. Maybe something more muted on the london market. Corporate earnings from germany, france, norway and in between. Interest to is of anybody in banking. Ftse 100 is seen weaker than other equity markets in europe. What is happening in the asian session, the standout moves. We see some upside in the asian equity market. Indonesia, hong kong pointing nicely to the upside. Profits even from the u. S. Seems to be comforted.