People dead. Apple is reClosing Stores and pepsi is shutting a food plant in beijing. The reserve bank of australia shifting its yield curve policy into Cruise Control, saying it is functioning better now than when the qe program began. Shery u. S. Futures under pressure. We are seeing it down. 6 . This after u. S. Stocks dropped the most in more than a week. Stocks are feeding on the record levels fading on the record levels of coronavirus in florida. Industrials and energy leading. The weekeek ended in the green for u. S. Stocks. China will accelerate purchases of u. S. Farm products. It was a slightly in the green sixth session of gains. Oil is under pressure heading towards the 39 a barrel, after it at one point surpassed four dollars a barrel. 40 a barrel. Theres optimism we could see global fuel demand and we had more reassurance from the opecplus groupon output cuts last week. Group on output cuts last week. Haidi china has confirmed its new National Security law will override h
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On in hong kong with china over the weekend saying the security law could override hong kongs legal system. We she we see shares on the hang seng. 23,469 for the hang seng. The csi 300 pointing positive. Showing the resilience across these benchmarks. The kospi as well, we did get those export numbers. A slump easing a bit. Not very encouraging when it comes to exports of chips. Only a gain of 2. 6 . We saw a 13 advance in may. Perhaps this recovery is in an early nascent sense. The p cop, lowered by 910s of 12 . A decision coming through bank of centro and the rbnz later this week. Later on when it comes to assets, the disappointment has been with the china lpr, which they did not do anything. Given the credit numbers we have gotten, perhaps it was reason to pause. The selloff in bonds, are we going to continue to see that change . Ozzie yen, you are seeing a perk up aussie again, you are seeing a perk up. The dollar is rising for a fifth day. We have seen some flareups in australia.
Chairman Jerome Powell will update the committee on Monetary Policy develop and the state of the u. S. Economy. It has always been four months since the last Humphrey Hawkins hearing, but we are seeing a different economy today. One that has been racked by the physical and Economic Impact of the covid19 pandemic, and ensuing shutdowns. Chairman powell, you have stated that the Federal Reserve is strongly committed to using our tools to do whatever we can and for as long as it takes, to provide relief and instability to ensure that the recovery is as strong as possible. Additionally, the fed has purchased more than 2 trillion in treasury and mortgage began ins since midmarch. Because of this, the Balance Sheet has expanded to more than 7 trillion. Congress, the administration, and regulatory agencies have taken action to protect and stabilize the infrastructure of our Economic System. The cares act has been central to that effort, and recent stats indicate that our labors are working. I
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back