Haidi very good morning. Im haidi stroudwatts in sydney. We are counting down to asias major market open. Shery i am shery ahn. Here is how markets are looking right now. U. S. Futures rising at the open. Stockster we saw u. S. Seeing its worst day in about three weeks. Investors were concerned about the prospects for more government spending. We saw some conflicting reports on whether or not that is coming. The s p 500 lost ground, 1. 6 . All 11 sectors were down, led by energy stocks. It also drags down cyclicals and small caps which managed to stay in positive territory. A bearish reversal from the gains briefly seen around the open. We had record cases in europe, fears of a doubledip recession. Take a look at oil because its also under pressure and headed towards the 40 a barrel level. Oil fell in the regular session as well with warning of an uncertain outlook for oil demand. See how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin. Sophie this tuesday, you h
Japans ruling party gets set to pick a new leader. The next Prime Ministers have a tough task of leading the nation after the pandemic. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures up. 4 . This of course after tapping the worst week since march. We continue to see the selloff and idiosyncratic news. Softbank changing options Investment Strategy leading to selling picking up any friday session. Not to mention the tech stock reversed gains after china said it opposes a fourth sale of tiktok. We have the nasdaq composite really under pressure in the u. S. Session on friday, down. 6 . Take a look at what oil is doing because we are coming off of its back its worst back to back weeks since april. Nothing on oil prices, tomention concern about opecs production compliance. Wti at the moment at around 37 a barrel, gaining about. 5 . Lets get a quick check of our asia of how asia is setting up. Sophie we are nearing the halfway mark for september and t
The chicago fed president australia heads into earnings season amid the worst recession in decades and a pandemic crippling the economy promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Shery u. S. Futures opening flat. This after they finish mixed on the friday session. We had u. S. Stocks falling with the s p 500 flat after five sessions of gains. We have escalating u. S. China tensions. Some positive data. We have the dollar inventing after u. S. July job dated beat estimates. The nasa composite was led lower. Composite was led lower. We had small caps leading the gains on those better than expected econumbers out of the u. S. Here is how oil is trading. We are seeing oil gaining ground above 41 a barrel with brent coming in around 44 a barrel. This after the biggest loss in a week. Not only u. S. And china tensions but the outlook for the u. S. Stimulus. They saw the biggest advance since early july. See some are going to of those uncertainties, the lack of a deadline w
A reaction that could further destabilize the global economy. And huawei vows to continue its campaign against u. S. Restrictions on tech. We will be hearing from the security chief a little bit later on this hour. Shery lets get you started with a quick check and how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures are down a 10th of 1 . We saw a fade in u. S. Stocks, giving up their gains after President Trump announced the executive order targeting social Media Companies. This coming at a time when u. S. China trade tensions continue to rise. We are seeing tensions over hong kong. The s p 500 fell for the first time in four days, and recent out performers, like bank and energy stocks, fell 4. 6 . Twitter falling almost 5 . We did get encouraging news with betterthanexpected economic data. Continuing jobless claims and capital goods orders providing some support. It is looking like we are shaping up to be a mixed start to trading here in asia. We are seeing for japanese futures, a little chang
Earnings from continuing operations was just 0. 10. Terrible numbers from certain sectors. Iously, retail search obviously, retail front and center. Market, kind of a mixed bag. Terrible data, yet equities tried to stage a rally earlier. Now futures flipping into more negative territory. Definitely the eurodollar and dollaryen are two to watch today. The yen was significantly higher thats butt all dies all eyes really on retail data later. Lets get some more market moving news from our new york and brussels teams. We want to start in the u. S. , where we are expecting more of that dire economic data. Many nonessential stores are closed. We also get Industrial Production. Michael mckee, International Policy and economics correspondent, joins us now. Michael i will give you guidance for the year, dismal. It is only a question of how bad they are going to be. Retail shrank by 8. 7 in march, when things were just getting started. In april, americans spent all of the time at home, not going