Were up, and then lifted nicely at the pfizer announcement, 1. 11, up 12. We are near dow 30,000. To me, the clarion idea is that the vix is peeling away the fear , the volatility that is out there come up with a vix at 22. 01. Jonathan wejonathan have been doing that since the election, and the move got a big boost of the pfizer news from last week. The final efficacy rating, and the number is decent. Lisa 95 , better than the initial read last week of 90 . S is the mark on brands this is the more comprehensive data. Of over 65, so preventing illness. An incredibly good display here. The interesting thing to me is that we are not seeing more of a reaction in markets. It is already baked in, and in fact, you are seeing bond yields a little lower on the day. They are just flirting with this idea that longterm, we are not changing the scenario, even with this incredibly good news. Equity futures are elevated on the s p 500. A big move in the equity market. We stayed elevated over the las
1000 miles apart. Donald trump and joe biden fight for air in competing town halls. Americans had to the polls and 18 days. Boris johnson said to decide whether to ditch brexit trade talks. And daimler gets in gear. The carmaker reports a 3 billion 3 billion euro profit as cost cuts filter through. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading. Car sales european out. They gained 1. 1 for the first nine months. Sales, upropean car for the first three quarters of the year. 1. 1 . Lets take a look at what is going on. European car registration, clearly 20 20 has been a tough year. One a look at what is going we have ftseutures filler cheers futures up 0. 8 . Tax futures gaining about 0. 5 . Futures the picture is more mixed. Showing a lot less sized. Futures are. Ractionally down futures flat. We have been more negative. Asian equity markets look seen looking mixed. Are we in a consolidation phase for setting ourselves up for some selling . You have the election coming. That is
Problems persist. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. The chief of staff says the differences are still significant. Julys job report looms. Welcome to daybreak europe. We are seeing red on the screen, but it is china and hong kong bearing the brunt of the losses, and in particular tencent after the president s move to ban tiktok. In terms of what we have been seeing, the u. S. Benchmark is getting close to a record this week. Global equities heading to a weekly gain, but that perhaps faltering slightly on this latest rise in geopolitical tension. We also see some weakening in the yuan. Ae dollar strengthening on broad basis, looking at the bloomberg dollar index. Acting like that safe haven again with these tensions and concerns rising. The 10 year yield also reflecting the risk of sentiment. Lets get more details on that story as trump moves to ban tiktok. The u. S. President signed an exec at of order prohibiting residents from doing any business with
Down. 2 , nonfarm futures, claims better than expected. Next chart, dollar remains in story or theme around the dollar today, relative weakness against the g10 but not so much against emergingmarket currencies. That is what the dollar is doing right now. Weakness in offshore currency remains on the back of this broader news from the trump administration, down. 2 , that is your aussie dollar, risk off mood, down. 1 , and the boe is flat against the u. S. Dollar. Gold move to commodities, publicly above 2050 and out, further gains. Not as Much Movement in terms of stimulus conversations in washington. Barrel, up,42 a maybe on track for gains across the week. And that is your yield for the 1132 and 52. , tencents down on the back of this executive order. Just how much and how significant this move is by President Trump is of course the question, given wechat is largely used by the chineseamerican community. It is not clear how much revenue tencent derives from the u. S. Market, but this i
Companies listed in new york. Tiktok remains a major stumbling block. Uber delivers, but not where we might have expected. Food shipments top ridehailing for the first time as the decade of unchecked growth hits the brakes. Haidi lets kick it off with a check of the markets. U. S. Stocks are surging, pushing higher as hopes of a stimulus to deal in congress will be imminent as President Trump says if nodeal is forthcoming, he could take action himself. The are seeing s p futures looking flat at the moment after the s p 500 pushed its fifth straight positive session overnight. Chicago nikkei futures also pretty flat at the moment ahead of the holidays kicking off next week so as you expect, we are seeing traders shifting their holdings and also assessing a flood of earnings. The aussie dollar holding that threeday again before the rba Quarterly Monetary Policy forecast. That report due out this hour. 72. 33. We heard from phil evans in the previous hour saying he sees putting clear road