People should own what has worked for the past 10 years. People get excited with the disruption type of names. When you look at historical cycles, you have never had a time when that leadership continues into the next cycle. That isthe fact that where the leadership has changed, i think that plays along very closely with what you were just talking about in terms of market performance. Romaine we are speaking with dan suzuki. A very interesting day on wall street what do you make of it . Rising chinau. S. Tensions rears its head again. Indexes close with a little bit of a swoon toward the close. How are you thinking about chinau. S. Tensions . Is this something that kind of keeps us locked within volatility and range . Dan it certainly has the risk of derailing the rally. The thing with this rally, one of the drivers has been falling uncertainty. New, we did not know much about it, it was like flying in the dark. More optimism around the treatment and vaccines, that has been decreasing
The great is slowing rate is slowing in the u. S. The virus is not helping australia and if barley has become a new flashpoint. Shery lets see how asia is shaping up. Sophie after a choppy week for asian stocks with the msci aipac index snapping a twoweek advance, futures are mixed but mostly lower going into chinas npc. Japan as well as thailand are going to publish First Quarter gdp numbers. Japan may have fallen into a recession through the yen trading steady ahead of the Asset Managers steady. The Asset Managers have boosted it five straight weeks. We will get policy decisions from thailand and indonesia when bets are raising that major Central Banks could be forced to embrace a good of rates. Theble under pressure after chief economist of the option of subzero rates was being considered among other unconventional policy tools for lets look at oil policy tools. Lets look at oil. Seeing brent gaining ground and of uti adding 2 after wti adding 2 ahead of the june contract expiring o
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
Formally thats where they stop, unlike the oil futures hallelujah. And thats why we got hammered dow plunging 632 points. S p plummeting 8. 37 nasdaq nose diving 3. 48 the house of pain yesterdays futures in negative territory terrified people if you have to pay to get rid of a barrel of oil or a bank that lent to a bunch of oil companies, even though futures rebounded, oil is above zero the more representative june futures plunged to zero digits before rebounding to the teens in the afternoon its not a good sign in other words, today the real physical world of commodities interfered with the paper world of stocks. My cyclical side says we rally hard from the bottom for not much reason. Since the paends the dow crashed to 18,000, and back to 24,000. Dramatically oversold to dramatically overbought quickly. Maybe we got ahead of ourselves. Sure, it looks like we slowed the coronavirus. More on that tonight youre going to like it i think. Were still seeing thousands of deaths per day and
U. S. Trading after west texas futures end in negative territory for the first time ever. Ups sees some light at the end of the virus tunnel. The ceo tells us ecommerce is almost thriving compared to traditional sectors. Lets take a look at the oil lets get to sophie kamaruddin, who is taking a look at highlights for us in hong kong. Sophie the relative resiliency of the markets we have seen of late have brought several benchmarks in the region of asia into bull market territory. That will be tested in the face of this oil rout. Futures. Eing mixed nikkei futures in chicago while kiwi stocks are extending mondays drop. Lets switch up the board to check in on signaling perhaps the recent optimism and equities may be unwarranted and this money, gold resuming losses but still closer to its high of the year than it slows that were hit in february and treasury futures are now unchanged after we saw the u. S. 10 year yield with alltime lows on monday and the dollar little changed as well wit