That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Market, they see the s p going up another 8 by year in based on vaccine optimism, apple is helping the dow and the overall market as well, david big reveal of new products including a new watch, the stock premarket is up three box, better than 2. 5 , we have ray wang back on the show he sees apple going to 150, it is now 118. Im going to show you amazon, the Accounting Firm deloitte expects on explosive 25 35 gain in online sales this holiday season, amazon is up 37. Seven weeks exactly to the election, heres the Campaign Schedule today, joe biden gets out of his house, theres a headline, heads to florida to address the hispanic vote, Top Democrats are worried that hes been playing it too safe, Bernie Sanders wants him to harden up his message and apparently he is listening, on monday called the president a climate arsonist, strong staff, who is writing his teleprompter, is he in control of his campaign . We will ask, big event at the white house. The president witnesses the signing of
Out. But right now, just one quick s p indicated up about 18 points that would also put the s p at question for you, target missed and raised questions about this. Was that a target specific an interday record problem . It looks like holiday sales were the nasdaq up about 55 also pretty good. Yeah. Putting it at an interday and target was able to maintain record the futures all comfortably margins. Meaning, they ran out of above that right now inventory on some issues they werent overstocked on some of those things. I dont think it was a problem the yield right now in the with the consumer. Walmart did well, right walmart had good numbers amazon had good numbers. 10year below 1. 87 . I think its problem. Welcome back, everybody. Take a look at the futures emblematic of problems they had the dow, the nasdaq and s p 500 in a few areas specifically china premier speaking out all set to open at new intraday electronics and tois not growing as much as they thought. Levels well see you tomor
Nissan scrapped its payout entirely. Changes at the top. Ubs begins its search for a successor to ceo Sergio Ermotti. They are said to be seeking internal and external candidates. Good morning, just under an hour away from the start of the cash equity trading day in europe. Lets take a look at the futures picture. The picture around the asian equity session was one that was flat and negative, and this is the picture we have for european futures. European futures showing a bit of upside to the start of the trading day, as our u. S. Futures. We are expecting to see more movement, but coronavirus remains a big topic of discussion. And expectations about what Central Banks can do is at the forefront of investors minds, when we look at the resilient futures. Lets get to the breaking data. We have german Economic Data for the German Economy, stagnating in the Fourth Quarter. That is our red headline across the board. The quarter on quarter number, unchanged. There is the stagnation for you.
Many more americans. In the event iranians make another bad choice the president will respond in the way he did last week. I know that the efforts that we have taken, not only last week with the strike against soleimani, but strategy we employed saved american lives. Neil what happens next . What are we worried about happens next especially when the iranians are talking about a swift and Immediate Response . Former u. S. Deputy secretary of defense under bush 43, Paul Wolfowitz on all of that. Sir, always good having you. Iran is making it very clear that theyre not going not to respond. How far do you think they push it . What do you think theyre up to . Look i think both sides dont want to see a larger war. I think that will lead to some restraint. But, they keep saying theyre going to respond at time of place of their choosing. Which i suppose is consistent with the idea that revenge is a meal best eaten cold as they say. I think, i think it is very important to keep an eye on iraq