The virus infections now pushed 8 million globally. Haveoutbreaks in the u. S. Some states weighing whether to pause reopening. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures up 2 10 of 1 . It was a very volatile trading session. We had a boost after the fed pledged to follow through with the Corporate Bond purchase, but then again, we had concerns over a second wave of the pandemic. Not to mention the white house now ending an Unemployment Bonus Program on july 31. We have the s p 500 gained 8 10 of 1 . At one point, they lost as much as 2. 5 . It was a really volatile session. Financials and staples led to gains, after dropping last week by the most since march. Take a look at how the dollar is doing now. We have seen the dollar underperforming against all g10 peers and weakening to session lows after the Federal Reserve made the announcement. Right now, we are seeing more pressure on the bloomberg dollar index. The 10 year yield at 72 basis
Reopening on hold. The bank of japan is expected to leave policy unchanged later while reassessing measures already taken to help the virus hit economy. Look at how take a markets are doing on boj decision day. We had that ricocheting session in the u. S. Overnight. If you needed further conviction as to the hand the fed intentionally has when it comes to showing up market demand, you have the announcement from the fed really causing that gain back into positive territory after we had declines of more than 2 in that trading session for the s p. Futures are looking positive. About. 25 in the green. We are looking at chicago nikkei futures trading higher by about. 3 . We are expecting just more operational steps from the bank of japan in terms of providing support to Small Businesses to be able to ride out the pandemic slowdown. In sydney, we are looking at a pop at the open. 2. 5 higher when it comes to futures, with indicated upside of two point 5 when the cash trading session begins,
Jakarta just coming online. Interesting when it comes to the hang seng, we are close to those session highs for the hang seng. Cathay pacific certainly one to watch. Spike onned that brief this governmentbacked rescue plan. We come back to earth a little bit. Still seeing shares elevated a little bit. Chinese stocks slightly lower. We missed on the Inflation Numbers. Small caps in china close to 20 higher from those lows we saw. India futures also pointing positive. We are watching the dollar as well. Down for nine of the last 10 sessions. A little bit of exception with the yen, 107. 79. The hong kong dollar still on the stronger side but kyle bass doubling down on his bet against the peg. We will see what kind of demand there is. Offshore renminbi pretty much unchanged right now. Haslinda lets stay with china. Factory prices continue to fall in may. The country continues to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Lets cross to selina wang in beijing. Break down the Inflatio
Across the countntry a and pose Serious Health and economic threat. An Emergency Declaration would allow governors to order School Closures and ask people to stay home. The law would also enable governors to use land or buildings for emergency medical facilities without the owners consent. Japans top Government Spokesperson says an Emergency Declaration could have a grave impact on peoples lives. Translator the Emergency Declaration will require a careful decision based on expert knowledge from various fields and will take into account the opinions raised in the diet. Some lawmakers expressed concerns over how an Emergency Declaration would affect the individual rights and privileges of citizens. Others said the government would have the responsibility to explain its actions if it decides to declare a state of emergency. The International Olympic Committee Says it will leave it up to the World Health Organization to decide the fate of the summers Tokyo Olympics. Ioc president thomas ba
Maintaining ties with venezuelas president. And sprint to the finish. Deutsche telekom sees profit rising as the companys tmobile unit edges closer to stealing a landmark u. S. Deal. Just under 15 minutes away from the start of cash equity trading in europe, lets take a look. Irst off at futures green arrows across the board put futures up. 7 , more than 50 points right now on that optimism about more stimulus injections coming from beijing. Take a look at u. S. Futures for the second trading day of the week. Remember, shorten holiday week. Still have a solid seven hours until u. S. Markets start to think about opening up. Throughout the morning. Lets take a look at the risk indicators we can glean from the gm them here. In terms of equity indexes, you can see in asia, we have decent gains here. In terms of forex, we can see a intle bit of a mixed picture terms of the hong kong dollar and japanese yen, little changed, but we do see some yen strength. You see that in some other assets a