First it was one way now hes taking aim at to talk john all trump threatens to ban the chinese video in the u. S. Again hes high security concerns but wheel of those alleged rants and how far will trump go in his business war against china this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Its one of the most downloaded apps of all times and famous for its catchy videos the chinese own video sharing app ticktock house millions of years as in the u. S. Alone and many feel disappointed by President Donald Trump rants to ban it is our country now tech giant microsoft says it would continue talks to buy ticked off operations in the u. S. Canada australia and new zealand the cooperation says spoken to trump and will tackle his concerns about the social media platform washington is use that data could be shared with the Chinese Government and videos censor ticktock rejects that this is what the us president had to say on friday well looking back we may be fanning we may be doing some other
Hitting stocks. Wall street falls as the virus weakens the recovery. S p slipping, led by energy, financials, and industrials. Lets get started with a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat, after we had a solid risk off session in new york. We had a resurgence in virus cases and news the white house is weighing tariffs on european exports. We have the imf downgrade of the 2020 Global Economic forecast, so the s p 500 saw its largest fall in almost two weeks. All 11 sectors on the s p 500 sank. The nasdaq composite falling for the first time in nine sessions, down more than 2 , halting the longest winning streak of the year. This, as we continue to get more political news on how the coronavirus pandemic could affect the political schedule Going Forward towards the november elections. Democrats, saying state delegations shouldnt attend a convention. Saying they should work remotely. Pressure coming not only from the fragile economic recovery that also u. S. Crude invento
Asiapacific benchmark. Jakarta coming online. Of 1 . F 6 10 u. S. Futures are flat and so are nifty futures. At thatbe looking downgrade of indias outlook to negative. The country at risk of falling into junk status. When it comes to some of these markets, singapore reopening phase two today. The peak p, is the biggest loser on the board. Elevated. Ocks are we are expecting that we could see some action from the pboc in the next coming days. Could we see it in the form of a triple are cut . The chinese bond market has stalled a bit. We are still seeing yields go lower today. Take a look at currencies first. The dollar set for a second week of gains right now. We are watching the pound really closely. The bank of england expanded by qe program. Renminbi is steady around 708. The rupiah, we are focusing on that. B. I. Cut rates yesterday. More easing to come. Trend is steepening getting tired right now. Businesses have fears of a second wave. U. S. 10 year is down to 70 basis points righ
Worldwide trade has been slashed. Postnba future, we will hear from lebron james. Feeling more risk as we head into the last trading session of the week for asia. Lasttrading flat after the halfhour of frenzied gains, s p 500 up 20 loss in the previous session. Nikkei futures at the moment looking flat. Dollaryen holding at 107. Gainingg dollar index with the exception of the kiwi and aussie dollar. It feels like we will see modest over in spite of concerns increased virus numbers, particularly in the u. S. And globally we are averaging 150,000 new cases per day. The underscores uncertainty. The senate in the u. S. Approving a bipartisan bill that would limit banks doing business with chinese officials involved in hong kong. Tom mackenzie is in beijing. It still has to be signed into law. Given unanimous consent, how likely is it this will be enacted . Tom very likely at this stage. It has bipartisan support in the house and it has been signed off in the senate. It will end up on trump
The. 5 million jobs to the economy in the month of may. The expectation was a loss of 8 million jobs. In fact, we had a growth in jobs, and the Unemployment Rate fell to 13. 3 . That is still in the double digits, but it is a lot better than an expectation of 20 unemployment by economists. So all in all, a much better than expected report. Joining me now so talk about this is the former jpmorgan chief economist, anthony chan. Great to have you this morning, your reaction to this jobs number. Its certainly encouraging. I think when we break it down, it really tells us that the brunt of the bad news on employment is probably behind us, but that doesnt mean that things are completely copesetic, because what you see in this employment report is virtually all the gains in jobs were due to those people that were laid off, on temporary layoff and now recalled back. When you look at the number of people that were not on temporary layoff, that category of unemployment has continued to move high