To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
Point 46 overnight. Political posturing is taking place with taking place between london and brussels. Checking in with some of the other little asset of the other asset classes. Gold pulling back in tandem with ,. 10 lower. Tom lets get you the first word news and an update on the continued spread of covid19. Have surged past 40 million and show no signs of slowing. U. S. Infection rates rising in 48 states while europe is inosing tighter restrictions london, paris, and other cities under strict curves with ireland enacting some of the toughest restrictions yet seen. The World Health Organization says failure to control quarantine rules has led to the resurgence. I stocks hit a six month low amid fears continuing street protests will drive investors away and further hurt the weakening economy. The benchmark index closed at its lowest level since april 16 as demonstrators bow to keep up pressure for constitutional reform and curbs on the monarchy. The index has lost more than 5 of its
Haidi very good morning. Im haidi stroudwatts in sydney. We are counting down to asias major market open. Shery i am shery ahn. Here is how markets are looking right now. U. S. Futures rising at the open. Stockster we saw u. S. Seeing its worst day in about three weeks. Investors were concerned about the prospects for more government spending. We saw some conflicting reports on whether or not that is coming. The s p 500 lost ground, 1. 6 . All 11 sectors were down, led by energy stocks. It also drags down cyclicals and small caps which managed to stay in positive territory. A bearish reversal from the gains briefly seen around the open. We had record cases in europe, fears of a doubledip recession. Take a look at oil because its also under pressure and headed towards the 40 a barrel level. Oil fell in the regular session as well with warning of an uncertain outlook for oil demand. See how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin. Sophie this tuesday, you h
That are against sanctions against iran. And leaked documents outlining 2 trillion worth of transactions and a failure by banks to catch suspicious funds. Its is one bank named and shares fall to a 25 year low. We will come back to hsbc in a moment. A very good moment. 6 00 a. M. Where you are. I am. One 9 00 a. M. Where china and the yuan and the e. M. That whole narrative plays into markets. As you look into the fx story. China will grow and it will be the only g20 country to grow. If youre waking up in the city of london today, you are questioning whether or not we will see another lock down. Radioyor talking to lbc saying he will potentially talk about fresh restrictions today and we have the u. K. Chief medical officer saying the u. K. Is at a critical point. A balancing act for the government. What do you do with restrictions while maintaining the economy . Indy. Indeed. Setting the bank of england on a different path for a status quo mission. Bifurcatione is a and i do like that
Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct