Enough. And more signs of stress. The fed will add liquidity to a vital corner of funding markets for a fourth straight day on friday. Later, huawei unveils an android powered smartphone without any google apps on the device. How the u. S. Ban is holding back the techtarget. First, we are seeing u. S. Futures at the moment unchanged after u. S. Stocks ended mixed on this thursday. We have seen stocks gained ground after positive comments on trade coming from the white house economic advisor, larry kudlow, but then those stocks pared back earlier gains after we heard from a trump advisor hinting at 50 to 100 tariffs on chinese goods. Also not to mention energy was under pressure today by the fact that oil stabilize, but we had two sessions of losses for crude prices, so the Energy Sector was down. The dow lost more than 50 points, the s p 500 unchanged and we also had a bond rally for a fourth consecutive session. We have seen, as paul mentioned, the oecd cutting Global Growth forecast,
Saying the u. S. Is winning the trade war with china, but the u. S. Deficit is set to balloon. Toeing Warns Companies to the line if they want access to the mainland economy. Get you started with a quick check of how markets closed the window session. Stocks were higher. They pared back some earlier gains. The s p 500 ended. 8 higher with every sector on the s p 500 and the green. Retailers were also hired. Today, we saw the bloomberg retail index at a threeweek high as we saw some positive s and target, lowe not to mention we saw that rally after we saw home depots stronger second half. That theyes signaling were ready to ease but not really hinting that this july rate cut was the start of an easing cycle, so twoyear treasury yields rallied. Treasury yields unchanged at the moment, so lets see where we are starting out the asian session. Sophie we are setting up for potentially positive gains with more earnings on tap for the region as well. We have a new zealands report card to consi
Page. Boris johnson will suspend parliament next month to limit debate on a no deal divorce. Joining chinas internet leaders to discuss the future of Artificial Intelligence. This trip threatens to annoy President Trump. Marketset a check of and how they closed at the end of the u. S. Session. The dow adding 258. 12 s p 500 was down. 7 . Everyone was in the green except for utilities. Energy shares beating utilities. The u. S. For more than expected. The volatility was low. Not volatility, but volume. Trading was around 15 below average. And lets look at how we are setting up in asia. Nexta we are set for a open in asia. We are waiting for the latest on the trade headlines as investors are held captive. But we did get positive news that chinese negotiators are talks. D to come for it looks like nikkei futures will open a bit lower, down about. 1 right now. That is going to be reversing the gains of two Straight Days. Futures like half the have little change and we saw it open up around
Paul our top stories this tuesday. To make axpected formal response to the growing unrest. Breaking news on the bloomberg terminal right now. Fromve correct accounts south korea for the month of june, and it is coming. 6. 376 billion dollars for the month of june. An improvement on the may figure of 4. 9 billion. You can see the korean won. It hit 1200 against the greenback yesterday. More consternation in korea. The hardest hit countries from this ever escalating trade war. You have to remember, these june figures do not count in the current spat with japan or the u. S. China trade war. That in mind, the figure of 6. 3 billion looks good. We will await the july figures. Shery investors have a lot on their plate today to digest. Ground, one losing point 5 after u. S. Equities lost more than 700 billion of market value just on this monday as we continue to see the trade war escalation between the u. S. And china. We saw the s p 500 lose 3 . Tech and financial leading the declines. It wa
Testifiesller finally but his longawaited appearance falls somewhat short of democrat hopes. Shery we have breaking south korea gdp numbers for the Second Quarter. The preliminary numbers year on year are seeing growth of 2. 1 , which is better than the expected 1. 9 growth. It is also an acceleration from 1. 7 in the First Quarter. Quarter on quarter, those numbers also avoiding a technical recession after contracting 0. 4 in the First Quarter. We are now seeing quarter on quarter growth of 1. 1 , which is better than expected. It seems that we have seen more Government Spending and south korea. The contraction that we saw in deceleration in the First Quarter came from local governments not spending as much. Now we have Government Spending kicking and again. Also consumption being relatively resilient despite the fact we have been getting contracting freddie lacks exports contracting the last seven months. This has been a difficult environment for south korea. Investments have been fa