Check, the fed is announcing some coordinated central bank swap line enhancements. We saw them a couple of days ago increase it for a variety of Central Banks. Now those swap lines will have further detail and enhanced swap lines. Absolutely. This is missioncritical right now, figuring out how we get dollars to everybody that needs them is the most important thing, it seems, at the moment, when it comes to financial markets. That is going to certainly help. My question today, does a weaker dollar indicate that the funding stress and design for dollars is beginning to ease off a little bit . We will get an announcement from the chancellery of the exchequer on further measures to help out the u. K. Economy. Similar move when it comes to the 10 year. In terms of stocks, we are seeing a bid finally returning to stocks, and finally enough, i think it is worth paying attention to the fact that we are getting some of the cyclicals in particular catching a bid today. You can see the travel and
Going to me on the phone is chuck grom, Gordon Haskett retail analyst. Joining me in new york is Lauren Goodwin, new york life multiasset per folio strategist, and Brooke Sutherland of bloomberg opinion. Give us a rundown of where walmart fell short. Brooke it was not great all the way around. The fourthquarter came in weaker than expected, and they called out unexpected softness in the weeks leading up to christmas, which is not what you want to hear from a major retailer. That is in line with what weve heard from a number of Different Companies that are not named amazon, which raises a lot of interesting questions about what the Competitive Landscape actually looks like. Also weighing on investors is the 2021 fiscal outlook, which was also weaker than expected on sales and profits. Alix the stock rating is heavy here in premarket. The bad news baked in. Is that is why is that why you have a buy rating here . Chuck weve had a buy rating for a while, not just here on the fourthquarter.
Through 1. 55 , is back at 1. 56 . The dollar continues to strengthen as well. We are very close to the 100 mark for the dollar index. The your a particular the euro a particular feature of that. Story. Ple the big hsbc also worth focusing on, down by 6 today. The new strategy doesnt seem to be finding favor with investors. It is around 28 points off the ftse 100. Gives you idea of the skate and weight and of the of hsbc. Coronavirus certainly present when it comes to the coronavirus story. 1. 07 handle we had a one dollar zero seven cents level we had a 1. 07 level if you minutes ago. Vonnie apple saying work is starting to resume around china, but experiencing a slower to normal return a slower return to normal condition than expected. For more, we are joined by steven milunovich, Wolfe Research managing director, over the phone. Almost 50 of factory workers are not at work in china, so this statement, even though it came from apple and is providing a drag on stocks today, could almo
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Pressure mounts. Shery the volcano in the philippines shots schools and the Stock Exchange, warning of a violent explosion. Australian markets have opened for trade. Lets turn to sophie. Sophie stocks opened to the downside, off. 2 after the best week of the asx 200 since february. We are seeing beach energy under pressure but Australian Oil companies should outperform in 2020, although looking for caution around oil prices in the back half of the year given expectations for additional supply which has taken the wind out of oils rally. The oil rally. Oil had the worst week since july. Lets flip the board to check in on cable. We are seeing cable under pressure. Looking at how it is doing, moving towards the 130 scandal. 130 scandal. Here,g into the terminal want to give you the heads up the Philippines Stock Exchange has been close to their rolling along with schools and the middle miller the Manila Airport in the week. Here is where philippine stocks are. This is asias worst performer