York as u. S. Inventories declined. And coffee slumped on its return to trade. Unease there. Lets get you started with a quick check of the markets trading at the moment. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening slightly higher. This of course after the regular session saw the sapp 500 climb to a 10week high. We have optimism over reopening of different economies. Not so much in key retail earnings showing signs of resiliency, so we have those and target reporting sales that top the estimates. The sapp 500 really erasing all of tuesdays losses. And really the gains being pretty broad. Were talking about financials, industrials and Energy Leading all 11 sectors higher. The sapp 500 more than up more than 30 since its march low. The nasdaq composite at the highest level in more than 12 weeks. Oil, we saw another day of gains for w. T. I. , gaining ground for a fifth consecutive session. Right now under a little bit of pressure but still at around the highest level in almost 10 weeks as we con
Rates can go. Deal toor merkel says a bailout lufthansa is edging closer. Warns of ad airline multibilliondollar rescue. 7, 8. I found the roadmap. One thing we have touched on. It is about demand. It is not about which camera. It is about demand. You have mark cuban of the Dallas Mavericks obviously supporting, talking about. Usinesses that cant survive jp morgan, citigroup, goldman sachs. This is the issue. Synchronized, un dislocated reopening which is know when youre 100 , which pulls into question that the veracity of the argument goes from 20 that unemployment goes from 20 to 10 . The road is dislocated. Nejra you got a sense of that in the fed minutes. Gloomy prognoses. What might be considered more is yield curve controls from here rather than negative rate. They were apparently not discussed as much to. That was kind of the take away from the fed. Yieldted discussion of curve control. They also said some banks should limit payouts to shareholders then you have the u. S. China
Disinformation and propaganda, President Trumps rhetorical assault on beijing steps up a gear. The u. S. Senate passes a bill to the last Chinese Companies on european and delist Chinese Companies on european indexes. The bank of england president said get of rates are not being ruled out. Plus, cut to junk. Angela merkel says a decision on the lufthansa bailout should be expected shortly after the German Airline becomes the latest to lose its Investment Grade status on the s p. Take a look at futures this morning. We do see losses in futures. Euro stoxx 50 futures down a little bit more than 1 . 0. 6 6 . Ures falling we see drops on u. S. Futures, as well. S p, and nasdaq futures all down by more than 0. 5 . Anna, the gmm . Anna lets have a look at the gmm. Quite a mixed picture in the Asian Session after some gains in europe and the u. S. Yesterday. Lifted in part by some better corporate reporting in the u. S. We see a little bit of nervousness around geopolitics and the ongoing ten
Worse. The chip index is down 1. 7 percent. A lot of those chipmakers receive revenue from china. We also have an index called the Golden Dragon china index down 2. 2 . Those are chinese firms listed in the u. S. Of course one of the triggers for this tension was the fact the senate did pass a bill that would move to d list to delist Foreign Companies in the u. S. Not saying it is targeting china, but that would be a piece of it. We she we see more weakness for the china related shares. David that is what we see in equities. What about bonds . What about commodities . Abigail it is not a different story. The bloomberg Commodity Index is down. Broadbased selling for the metals. Gold and silver down sharply. Oil was up a little bit. That is a divergence. A solid decline. Bonds are higher, so i risk off tone. What is also higher as the bloomberg dollar index. It will be interesting to see whether or not the risk off tone holds. Last year every other day it seemed we were talking risk on r
Off is also bullish. We certainly have the bulls out. One stock not participating is royal caribbean. They put up a very bad quarter. Interesting, target put up a good quarter. Those shares are trading lower and that has to do with uncertainty around the consumer. They put up a good quarter. There are concerns about margins and will that eat into the strong sales, but will we see the consumer start to move back for Discretionary Spending or will it be all about the staples . To, i everyone you talk spoke to Brian Moynihan yesterday, he said it is all about the consumer. You are a student of the market. Tell me how you tell the difference between a bull market and a bear market rally. Abigail lots of signs, and that is something that has been on my mind. It is probably too early to say this is a real bull market for the very reason that if you work to go back to this time in 1929 to 1932, the initial fall was a decline of 44 followed by a 46 rally and then what ultimately turned into an