Prices double the last couple of months. We have seen demand picking up. Taking a look at other markets, the focus is on chinese equities. They have been fluctuating between gains and losses. The shanghai cob is lower. They are largely flat after what we saw on friday. State funds trimming their holdings. There was the big news of the haltingetf in china trading until 10 30 a. M. This morning. They are saying the warning of thiss involved here tracks some of the largest stocks in shanghai. Take a look at singapore. This is reopening after the singapore election. Retaining the firm grip on power. When he 89 of seats. That is considered the weakest showing ever. Good. Be for stocks some analysts say a de a diverse up three quarters of 1 . We are taking a look at bonds and currencies. We watched the dollar posting the second weekly loss. It comes toing when the belly of the curve for u. S. Treasuries. Reversing some of the gains after we sell yields touch a record low on friday. Lower by
Even pharma is down. One thing you have pointed out is the volume and how it has picked up as we sold off today and extended yesterdays weakness as well. Yesterday volume had dried out and people were sitting and waiting. You are seeing a pickup in activities this week. What do you think that signals . Brent i will go back to my opening comments from the standpoint of people who are shortterm market participants, thinking of the next couple of weeks what is volatile given the reopening has started and we will get realtime feedback of how that goes. There will be spots where it will not go as well. If you have those setbacks in those areas, that would be a nearterm market detractor. We will find ways to deal with this. Treatment,ccine or these have become political statements, but i do think america will find a way. That is what capitalism and democracy does. It adapts to problems historically. We have this big blanket of the economy which was a thing we needed to do and now we are find
Crisis. The Prime Minister is underestimating the threat. He meets with the french president today. Manus a warm welcome to daybreak europe. This thursday morning. A warning from Standard Charter, its going to be a tough year to make 10 return on equity. For your profit for 2019, 4 . 2 billion. The market penciled in for . 3 billion. But we are giving you Share Buybacks, half billion dollar inner share about that. Hsbc didnt give you a Share Buyback, but we will do a buyback and come back and review that once weve completed the the year. In so it is a delay to the return on equity. 2020 will be below the midterm target. What is it mean for structural review . Those are the headlines, a buyback, a warning, and amiss. A trifecta of news to digest. Cfo is inrd charter the green room. Dont miss the conversation. Nejra, good morning. Nejra ive got abs numbers hitting the tape right now. Fourth quarter granik revenue up 2. 5 . The estimate was 2. 6 . Fourth quarter adjusted ebitda down 5. 5
Higher again, it has been a sharp rebound from the lows. Futures up 90 on the dow 36 on the nasdaq just under 10 on the s p 500 dow closed above 25,000 again yesterday. How about asia a check on the overnight session. China is closed, right, for the holiday . Yes, the Lunar New Year the Chinese Exchange was closed except for the nikkei you dont believe it until you read it in the teleprompter. I would believe him before the teleprompter did you do fast moneyfast mont night . No, there is no fast money. I knew that i watch around the clock. I do. European equities to check on those as well. Lets see how we are set up for the session here there is the nikkei in japan that was the lone market in asia great across the board for europe strongest gains on the periphery. Italy and spain up about. 08 the tenyear yield, just under 2. 9 there, you can see the rest. 30year, 3. 14, the fiveyear, 2. 639 we were eigall waiting for tt three and didnt get it. It went the other way. You listen to rick.
Bill. The longawaited analysis of the newly passed house bill was released tonight by the congressional budget office. In the first calculation of its potential impact, the number of uninsured would increase an estimated 23 million by the year 2026, and federal deficits would fall. Kayla tauschy has the details from washington. Kayla, what are basically the most important aspects of this particular bill . We do see a slight rise in the number of uninsured compared to past bills. Reporter sue, actually the cbo said that there would be a slight improvement in the number of uninsured compared to previous versions. The cbo said there would be 23 million fewer people insured, compared to 24 million in the previous bill. What changed over the course of time was there were two amendments that were put forth, one my congressman macarthur, one by congressman upton. The macarthur amendment sought to give states flexibility while upholding protections for customers with preexisting conditions or