At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
Twitter shares fall after hours on an unprecedented hack on the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gate. Jack dorsey called it a tough day. Welcome. It may have been a tough day for twitter, but it is also shaping up to be a tough week for tech stocks in general. The nasdaq leadership we have seen falling back a little bit this week. Nonetheless, we did see a little bit of strength come through on the s p 500. Today, we are seeing a little bit more risk off sentiment across assets. Perhaps to do with concerns around the china data, particularly around the retail sales question. Asia, the screen and particularly in chinese equities. The 10year yield is steady. You are seeing the dollar steady after a couple days of weakness. Also perhaps the fact that we are seeing a little bit of softness in crude. It did close that a fourmonth high yesterday, shrugging off plans by opecplus to taper production curves. Lets get to the first word news now. Coronavirus case
Economists expect a bond buying to exceed 3 trillion euros this year and the next. Twitter shares fall after hours on when unprecedented hack of the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gates. Ceo jack dorsey calls it a tough day. Welcome to the program. A tough day for jack dorsey. We will get into that story a little bit later on. Just under an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading on this thursday morning. Lets look at European Equity market futures, u. S. Futures. All of that pointing a little bit negatively. It seems some of the optimism around vaccines that dominated trading yesterday, some of that has waned just a little. Replaced by a mixed picture signals on geopolitics and the chinese data. Lets get to some breaking news. We have european Passenger Car sales dropping by 24 in june. European car sales, the slump slowly eases, believe it or not with a 24 jump. The recovery has been taking place now for a second straight month, leaving ma
Back to the office. Jonathan ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and tom keene. Justews flow this morning in this hour is extraordinary. We are going to take time with david coston on the equity markets. Just importantly, lagarde at the bottom of the hour. Ecbthan we will hear from president Christine Lagarde. The struggle continues to get a clean read on the u. S. Economy. Tom it is two worlds. Its about finance and Morgan Stanley and great. What its really about is we really lose perspective on the tangible hardship thats out there. Lisa we are going to get a sense of that with the churn in the unemployment numbers. We are expecting a decline in total filings. Are we seeing a significant number of increases in areas hit harder by the virus . Futures 22. 28. 82 the center tendency. Yesterday we spoke with Michael Holland with decades of experience. Is with Goldman Sachs. Just as importantly, what not to own. What do i not want to own right now . You want to avoid are companies that have a shorter
Last 400 days is we are finally on dollar support. We will talk about this through the show. On dxy, the blended dollar index , with strong euro contribution, we are really on the support of a signal to a weaker dollar. Jonathan it is the trait everyone would hope would develop it is the trade everyone was hoping would develop. We see that on the screen this morning. It is a tugofwar between pretty negative corporate guidance and the vaccine hopes that started yesterday evening. Lisa i would argue that the vaccine hopes are very much in the front of peoples mind this morning. The question of whether moderna can jack up production, as well as the Regulatory Approval they need to get this out and distributed. Meanwhile, more guidance from the big banks. Goldman reporting in about a half hours time. At 2 00 p. M. , the fed releases their july beige book. Some indication of how businesses are changing their expectations based on the resurgence in virus cases. Also today, opecplus meeting t