Gains in the region today. The csi 300 has been up 6 in the past five days, the biggest months. N four margin traders have returned and the stock rally is kicking off. The hang seng up 133 points. We are seeing the dollar slightly weaker, but marginal. We are watching the aussie, in t he red here now. They are all over the place. Aussie, j. P. Morgan saying expect low 60s. It is difficult to model the recovery we are seeing. Number more positive. We are watching oil, coming off of a four month high and likely to end the month in the green. Gold with four weeks of gains. Tom the u. S. Senate has given final approval to legislation that would impose sanctions on chinese officials, cracking down on dissent in hong kong. Page in his warning a strong countermeasures if the u. K. Act in response to the National Security law. Warning a strong countermeasure if the u. K. , australia and the u. S. Active response to the National Security law. In the measures appropriate the senate at this point
What else is going on here . We also have lines coming through from carrie lam saying they will not be appointing judges to individual cases with regard to the National Security legislation. She had said earlier it would not be retrospective. Elsewhere, lets have a look at some of the other markets. The shanghai comp, for 10th of 1 . 4 10 of 1 . The kospi, much higher. We were up about 1. 67 before the headlines. The aussie market, erasing all of the gains and the red before came back. The singapore market does language seven tents below the gain line. A quick look at currencies. The dollar index was actually moving to the downside. The first time in six days. That has turned around now. The dollar index itself is marginally high. This is giving up some of its gains. Yen just below 107. Terling up approaching the 1. 25 level. The aussie has been appreciating. It is on the verge of testing the 70 u. S. Sent level. Confidence in the euro area improving marginally. Still down 14. 7. Bette
Good morning and welcome to the show im dominic chu in today for Brian Sullivan lets get to the money and markets how theyre setting the day up solid gains. You can see here dow futures indicated higher by around 400 points a nice move there. The s p 500 up by 44 points and the nasdaq up by 150 turning now to whats happening with the bond market the yields moving higher currently at 69 basis points or 0. 69 . The two year note about. 16 and the 30 yearlong bond 1. 45 as well very strong from the starting position and you can see that now that translates to gains of less than 1. 8 on the ftse and typically its been one of the underperformers but you can see out in front today the u. K. Stock market not the 2 but also getting back some of the territory has been the german dax, 1. 5 you can see it suggesting a broadening out of this rally around coronavirus its up 6. 9 we had the resignation of the chairman and the ceo activists want job cuts. The unions had success against the Management
The virus infections now pushed 8 million globally. Haveoutbreaks in the u. S. Some states weighing whether to pause reopening. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures up 2 10 of 1 . It was a very volatile trading session. We had a boost after the fed pledged to follow through with the Corporate Bond purchase, but then again, we had concerns over a second wave of the pandemic. Not to mention the white house now ending an Unemployment Bonus Program on july 31. We have the s p 500 gained 8 10 of 1 . At one point, they lost as much as 2. 5 . It was a really volatile session. Financials and staples led to gains, after dropping last week by the most since march. Take a look at how the dollar is doing now. We have seen the dollar underperforming against all g10 peers and weakening to session lows after the Federal Reserve made the announcement. Right now, we are seeing more pressure on the bloomberg dollar index. The 10 year yield at 72 basis
Reopening on hold. The bank of japan is expected to leave policy unchanged later while reassessing measures already taken to help the virus hit economy. Look at how take a markets are doing on boj decision day. We had that ricocheting session in the u. S. Overnight. If you needed further conviction as to the hand the fed intentionally has when it comes to showing up market demand, you have the announcement from the fed really causing that gain back into positive territory after we had declines of more than 2 in that trading session for the s p. Futures are looking positive. About. 25 in the green. We are looking at chicago nikkei futures trading higher by about. 3 . We are expecting just more operational steps from the bank of japan in terms of providing support to Small Businesses to be able to ride out the pandemic slowdown. In sydney, we are looking at a pop at the open. 2. 5 higher when it comes to futures, with indicated upside of two point 5 when the cash trading session begins,