Potential pandemic. Investors dont seem to care. U. S. Markets close out the best quarter since 1998 with the s p 500 up 20 . Gold is trading near 1800. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening under a little bit of pressure at the moment, down 2 10 of 1 . This as we just mentioned, u. S. Stocks finishing the best quarter in more than two decades. We are talking about a 20 increase in the last three months. We have the s p 500 seeing the best two days in about three weeks. All 11 sectors finished up. The dow underperformed a little bit compared to other major indices. A plunge in boeing. Terminating their purchases of all remaining jets on order. Take a look at what oil is doing. We have seen it gain ground. It is continuing to rise near 40 a barrel. It just posted its best quarter in nearly 30 years, bouncing back from that historic price crash. Really climbing from negative territory in april. Haidi yeah, it really is the histo
Was up by better than 5. 7 also watching whats been happening here with the treasury market in the United States. Keeping an eye on those things and youll see that right now at least it looks like a ten year is yielding 0. 689 just below that 0. 7 that we had the last couple of weeks. What was that i dont know. Im trying to explain this. I could make up a bunch of reasons. Because were reopening its the same thing over the weekend. New records were hitting the states where they were talking about more than 10,000 cases a day coming in and here you are watching the markets this morning saying yeah, okay. I was just listening to Worldwide Exchange and by the time he got done talking we should be at 10,000 on the dow look at whats happening and this, that, gaps here that are it can all end badly. At this point, this is really serious when you got this many people obviously that have passed away from the disease remember at one point i said we need a reality check i think that overall, may
Smartphone sales. Details about the beijing security law. Shery this is quite a reversal from the deficit we saw in the previous month. We had seen south koreas current account falling to deficit for the first time in about one year but the numbers have recovered and we are seeing a rebound with our current account surplus topping 2 million. When it comes to goods, the trade surplus coming in at 2. 5 billion for the month of may. This is quite a recovery given that we had really fallen to the lowest level since 2008. Good trade surplus numbers. A much better than expected number out of south korea when it comes to the current account surplus and also the goods trade surplus for the month of may. Lets see how markets are trading at the moment. We are seeing now nikkei futures unchanged. Same for u. S. Futures. This after we had stocks here in new york jumping following the holiday weekend. We had seen five sessions of gains for the u. S. Now unchanged at the moment. The japanese yen Hol
In the white house, continue they continue to push reopening. Stephen mnuchin says another shutdown is off the agenda. Like ait does look terrible set up when it comes to this final friday training session. The selloff looks to continue. In the u. S. , it was deep and heavy volumes as we saw that box provedy go really be wrong that came to a screeching halt. 2 trillion to write off the value of u. S. Equities in under seven hours time. The are seeing a rebound when it comes to u. S. Futures trading for the s p, seeing upside about. 5 . Chicago and nikkei futures looking positive. Still, we could see some downside in the session, particularly as we continue to see the yen, really the only outperform against the dollar. In sydney, no such luck. Futures plummeting by over 3 . We had aussie stocks falling the most in six weeks in the thursday session. We are seeing the correction extend to almost 4. 5 percent in the early part of this session as we see downside for the kiwi and the aussie
Data from john hopkins showed the crown a virus or past half a 1000000 deaths over the weekend with more than 10100000 and factions worldwide while the overall death rate has flattened in recent weeks Health Experts are concerned of a possible resurgence as new cases are indeed spiking australia recorded its largest daily outbreaks in april 11th with 85 new Coronavirus Infections in 24 hours now the country is looking to place more restrictions including social distancing guidelines and the European Union opens its borders the European Commission declined to comment on the list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter the e. U. In the coming days. Were not going to speculate on what is going to be the final decision by the council we of course understand the huge interest that this issue raises. But for the moment do is a process of Decision Making process in the council. And we do not want to speculate on what the final result will be and amid a spike in coven 1000. 00 cas