The show. A oneday day holiday on monday. We have seen initial gains of 85 , but still a healthy debut. A big ipo in hong kong. Smic is picking up 3 despite reports earlier. Gaining and alibaba is also up, close to four points. Currencies it onto in terms of cnh. It is around the level that it was fixed at. Pound, between brussels and london, increasingly concerned. It is currently down. 4 . 39, 1. 7 . Yvonne how they are going to reopen is still the key question. More than 4 incline. A rallyting a blip for reversal. Thisrine, we have seen text selloff just for a bit. Thisthat it can lead market at the moment or i looking too tired at the moment . On one side, you see the market really being driven with a lot of liquidity and strong retail participation, also in the u. S. , so i know it is contrarian, but when you look at the sectors, some of these companies are delivering on earnings. Fundamentalsat the and these companies that can achieve earnings growths. What kind of correlation ar
Calling for the fact that these stockmarkets had gone too far, too fast. The darlings of 2020 finally took the hit. Apple, amazon. Tesla. Gain ondia, the biggest the s p this year. Companies, along with energy, lead us into that fall. Were you the naysayer . Joe ive been predicting this since april 1. My predictions finally vindicated. But it was just so intense. We talked about this yesterday. You had Huge Companies jumping every day. This is like the reversal that we got. Energy had a bad week. Infotech down on the week. The only gainers, materials and utilities. Financials also outperforming. That really is the story. Really hot sectors finally got sold. You have such incredible moves. It is not surprising even if that is a disappointing cliche. Romaine it looks like some of this could have been related to how short a lot of institutional managers and hedge funds and investors were. You are talking about 23 straight weeks where hedge funds had been short s p futures. The latest data
Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
Benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 25 . That is expected. We had the debt maintaining it will continue with the policy of 0. 25 for the beginning of next year. They are maintaining the benchmark Interest Rate. This meeting coming after four new cases ending new zealands 100 today virus free run. Perhaps more later on. Auckland back in lockdown. A lot were surprised about the resilience of the economy. They have to weigh the global risks, as well. The qe purchases are interesting, as well. Most werethey have to weigh thel a bit historic pick for joe biden, the first africanamerican. Pick for Vice President. And the first asianamerican. And some say it will help propel joe biden to the white house. Lets bring in Jodi Schneider to talk more about this decision. It seems this was a no surprise pick from joe biden. What does it tell us about the Democratic Party . First of all, joe biden said he would pick a woman, so thats not a surprise for his Vice President ial running mate. It was thought h
In the last 10 days. The u. S. And china trade new barbs. Washington rejects chinas claim to the South China Sea. Top u. S. Senators are facing mainland sanctions. Haidi u. S. China sentiments dominating again with the grim overlay of rolling back restrictions around the world. This is how we are shaping up when it comes to u. S. Futures contracts, up by. 2 after what was a truly volatile session. We had the s p 500 touching levels prepandemic and we also have the nasdaq hitting a fresh record before finishing in the red and we spoke about tesla being a huge part of that tech eventual close lower. Nikkei futures up by. 2 percent. Sydney futures escalating in the red, point 8 lower, looking like a set up of. 5 lower, this as we are expecting an announcement today that the fed of New South Wales will ease back those restrictions when it comes to indoor gatherings at pubs after cases coming from the pubs. It is now over 20. New zealand trading modestly higher, about. 25 . Some significant