Across the americas. Texasa sees a record as says covid19 is spreading at unacceptable rates. The u. S. Raises the pressure on Chinese Media organizations, foreigning four more as missions and calling them nothing more than began to outlets. Shery lets get you started. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off trading flat at the moment after u. S. Stocks rose. A pretty choppy morning session but technology did manage to lead the advanced. The nasdaq composite rising to a record high, seventh consecutive session of days. The longest winning streak since december. We did get some negative sentiment on rising coronavirus cases in dozen states. The s p 500 did lag this gain across the board. Some sectors like financial and health care under pressure as investors weigh the Economic Impact of a second wave. Take a look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti right now falling towards the 40 a barrel after finishing at the three month high. We have some demand optimism as states have moved tow
Relatively good news out of new york where hospitalizations continue to decline although there is a spike in deaths in the state. The governor is worried, outlining for folks the idea of a staggered reopening of the state. Only 45 minutes after new yorks mayor bill de blasio was saying look, it is looking like june. That the city will not be able to open up before june. That was not exactly worthy after fox news or fox business alert. No shocker there. A highranking mayor of the city was making it official all you needed to hear, wow, this whole comeback for the economy which cant get any robust way without new york kicking in is not likely to happen. So that is kind of been pulling and pushing at investors today. Jackie deangelis has more on all of the above. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon. Good to see you, neil. Thats right, the market is paring the losses right now. Youre right stocks are kicking off the week in the red after a very strong week last week. Investors are cautiou
Stoxx 600 at a record high. On top of that encouraging news out of china. The pound, 1. 3363, getting a little bit of data with manufacturing. 45. 9 but it is still also indicating contraction. Lets take a look at a share price of electoral a come of , those are down. Mark carney will present the financial report. Thats from 5 00 p. M. London time and we should be a week away from the nomination of the new bank of england governor. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Boris johnson will appoint new ministers to his cabinet after his landslide victory in the u. K. Election. The Prime Minister will welcome 109 new conservative members of parliament to london. They will take their seats in the house of commons. Downing street saying the government will introduce a law to deliver brexit before christmas. That will pave the way for the eu divorce and take place by the end of january. The International Effort to rein in fossil fuel pollution stumbling after u. S.
Turnout in hong kongs district elections as protests have their say on carrie lams government and drive for democracy. Stocks with these risks, are still managing to push ahead to a third monthly gain. Lets check out how u. S. Markets closed friday. S p 500 closing just higher, led by automakers. Stayingt weekly loss, within 1 of a record high. Treasuries flat for an eighth session on friday. The curve has not yet inverted but we are keeping an eye on that. Looking at the mood in asia, we are setting up for a mixed start. Shares to the downside at the start of a week which brings us gdp reports from india and taiwan. And a policy decision from south korea. Here in hong kong we are going to get trade data on tuesday along with alibabas secondary listing in the city. This, after elections took place on sunday, november 24, which also marked 50 years since the debut. Sterling is testing fridays high against the euro after the u. K. Conservatives unveiled the election manifesto. China said
They are weighing new investigations. A record turnout in hong kong as prodemocracy looks set for big gains. It is the first opportunity for hong kongers to vote after months and months of violent protests. Paul lets get you across some breaking news on the bloomberg terminal. Carl icahn is said to seek control of occidentals board. He plans to nominate 10 directors in an attempt to seize control of the u. S. Oil and gas producer. This is according to people familiar with the matter. Is said to be looking to seek control of occidentals board. We will bring you more details on that as we get them. For now, trading has begun here in australia. Lets take a look at how we are tracking. Currently higher by just over. 1 . We have a staggered open here in australia. Stocks coming online in alphabetical order. We are currently in the as. The one we are really looking forward to is westpac in the ws. This packet slipping about 7 in the last week on the back of this Money Laundering scandal. 4 o