South korea. Infections slow in japan, but young adults becoming more vulnerable. Do infections in new zealand itsend weaken reputation as a covid19 beater. The Prime Minister is delaying the election. Down that is weighing matters in new zealand, but lets look at u. S. Futures. Uncertainty continues to plague markets as we kick off this new session in asia. Uncertainty when it comes to trade with the phase one meetings being postponed indefinitely. We are also getting an indefinite stalemate when it comes to stimulus talks, as well as uncertainty over the future of mailin voting and usps. Theve futures trading on s p, positive 5. 1 . The nikkei 225 up by about. 25 . We are continuing to watch price action on the topics, the worlds best performing index in august as we continue to see the encouraging recovery in industrials and financials. The japanese economy sent to crater by a record in the latest quarter. We are getting gdp numbers later today. In new zealand, back to one of the to
He boosted his ear and forecast by 24 , writing a fall in erp, adjusted risk premiums will be offset by a rise in bond yields. The combination will boost the end,o already 600 by years 3800 in 12 months time. This represents a significant increase driven by valuation. What do the technicals have to say about that . Joining me now is katie stockton, founder of fairlead strategies. Off of the highs now. What does that tell you about the next direction . Is flirting with that resistance. The level im watching is 3394, the intraday high from february. For a breakout to be decisive, we need to see a couple of closeouts above that level. Highs onct new positive shortterm momentum but also looking for momentum to falter before the end of the month. You have some overextended readings in some of , alsoternal measures sentiment. Basedrcentage of stocks on their 50day moving averages reaching levels often associated with pullbacks in the s p 500. At the same time, sentiment reaching exceedingly
Prices double the last couple of months. We have seen demand picking up. Taking a look at other markets, the focus is on chinese equities. They have been fluctuating between gains and losses. The shanghai cob is lower. They are largely flat after what we saw on friday. State funds trimming their holdings. There was the big news of the haltingetf in china trading until 10 30 a. M. This morning. They are saying the warning of thiss involved here tracks some of the largest stocks in shanghai. Take a look at singapore. This is reopening after the singapore election. Retaining the firm grip on power. When he 89 of seats. That is considered the weakest showing ever. Good. Be for stocks some analysts say a de a diverse up three quarters of 1 . We are taking a look at bonds and currencies. We watched the dollar posting the second weekly loss. It comes toing when the belly of the curve for u. S. Treasuries. Reversing some of the gains after we sell yields touch a record low on friday. Lower by
Margin. The result is seen as pivotal for the future ties of the nation with the European Union. And u. S. Banks are braced for the worth order since the quarter for the worse quarter since the financial crisis. Jp morgan kicks off a big rank week. Good morning, it is 6 00 a. M. In london. It is getting hot here. With an untamed virus irrationalional exuberance in stocks. It could get tricky. Goldman has upped their view of their earnings. Yall so have the gilead story in terms of remdesivir helping the severely ill despite the untamed virus in florida exceeding the peaks of new york and texas. They are still below consensus and there are deals there. The dollar drops. Two straight weeks of a demolition of the dollar. Yields traded at. 63. Do you buy the rally . Im a believer, are you . Copper is the shining narrative. Copper is ripping it up there this morning. You are looking at the longest 20 16. Streak since is that a wakeup call to the Treasury Department . On willudis turn the sa
Abigail doolittle who has been over this story. Nasdaq another record high today. What are you hearing about sort of the strength that we saw into end of todays session . Its pretty amazing. We have another record high for nasdaq. Nasdaq 100, big tech stocks continuing to do well. Those are the stayathome stocks this years defense. Theres an odd tension that you have this years defense and new hitting record high after record high. Interesting,t earlier today, you had tech slightly lower. Bulle end of the day really rushed through supporting technology. Investors looking past virus numbers. Its not going to slow the that it hadhe way on the shutdown. Back in february when the virus was raging in china, that down, stocks here ignoring it. It feels we are ignoring some of fundamental data. Take a look at the moves that we have on the day. Wasnt just tech. Tech actually on the day a sector. Ower as financials up 3. 5 . Bit of a nice cyclical tilt s p 500 beings s p helped out by bond fall