Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be
Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
An estimate of expansion. About 1. 3 . Switching out the boards and having a look at the other asset classes, which are in the mix at the moment. The u. S. Election, according to a survey, sending the dollar in opposite pumps. If donald trump wins, we could see a stronger dollar. If joe biden wins, the reverse. Also wests going on with the also was going on with the yen. Against the backdrop of a slightly better industrial read out of japan. Opposed to. 8 . Al, despite coming back, has 36 a barrel handle. Oil is set for its worst month since march. It is down to coronavirus demand fears hitting things. Bring livee want to pictures from vietnam, where mike pompeo is meeting with the vietnamese deputy Prime Minister hanoi. Counterpart in this is part of his tour in asia. Some have called it an empty china tour of asia. Thats happening right now. Both are expected to exchange ideas. Up relations with the two countries. Vietnam had been boosting its import of u. S. Products. Mike pompeo wr
Crucial states. Markets are proceeding very cautiously. They are mixed at this hour after the dows 650point monday meltdown. We are only adding to that right now. Getting a little uncomfortably close to lows of the session. We are down 185. The low is a loss of 196 at the moment. You can see the s p is down seven but the nasdaq is holding on to some green here, up 50 points. No surprise, then, that megatech is powering the markets leaders. Could all that change tomorrow, when the top brass from facebook, twitter and google face the music in what is expected to be a contentious capitol hill hearing . Senator roger wicker is the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. He will tell us what he needs to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, jack dorsey and sandar pichai. And breaking news out of tmobile. Forget telecom and 5g wars. Tmobile Just Launched a dual attack on cable and streaming leaders. Tmobiles ceo is here to unveil his brand new weaponry of offerings that has the stock moving higher a