The single currency crosses the key level for the first time in two years. Philip lane says it matters for monetary policy. Andy Swift Financial regulators and the swiss financial of creditart suisse over spying on former employees. Let us get some breaking news for you. Front, u. K. Housing august house prices rising by 3. 7 year on year. This is according to nationwide. 2 on the increase of month. The month on month figure is 2 . The year on year figure is 3. 7 . Very strong numbers follow other measures of stress. We have a right move for july. Know the reason behind all of this. There was pentup demand because of a lockdown. There was a tax incentive put in place. And perhaps a little bit of incentive to move to quiet, rural locations. All of that lifting housing demand. Solid numbers nationwide this morning. Lets get to the broader picture around markets, have a look at futures. For European Equity markets, fairly flat. If you excuse exclude the ftse. The futures picture giving us
Official cash rate being kept on hold, 0. 25 . They are prepared to provide additional stimulus. Just keeping you crossing these additional lines coming through. Monetary policy needs to support the economy for a long time. The economic recovery is on track. The funding may be ready before the end of the year. There is progress being made on additional monetary calls. There has been a rise in unemployment and an increase in firm closures. These lines crossing the terminal now. They kept that cash rate on hold as expected. Just keeping calm and carry on. You mentioned that november review of the Monetary Policy tool. A lot of questions that they will deploy are negative Interest Rates. This is what the market seems to be pricing in. You see that new zealand 10 year yield ever so slightly get into those record those for yields right now at 47 basis points. Lets check the markets to see what else we were expecting. A lot of central bank action. At these newg zealand assets right now. We a
Bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focusing on. There is quite a lot of m a news. That is giving a lift to the market. What im looking at is a couple of technology stocks. Couple of other things such as crude oil edging higher, so does gold. Global shares off a back to back decline. To bloomberg first word news in london. Optimism over a coronavirus vaccine. Pfizeref executive of says its likely it will by the end of the year. They say theyre dependent on Regulatory Approval but says the firm has a good chance of knowing the efficacy by the end of october. Secretaryief cabinet won the race to replace shinzo abe. National in the group will use this majority to install him as Prime Minister in a vote on wednesday. The uks justice secretary has warned he may quit over the government plans on brexit. He says it hasnt reached that stage just yet. The controversial rule has this week. Boris johnson is facing a growing rebellion to override part of the divorce agreement alre
Treasuries and the dollar gain as donald trump valves to disentangle the u. S. From china. The president also suggests heavy taxes for American Companies that create jobs overseas. Of realism. The pound slides as Boris Johnson says he is prepared to walk away from the eu without a brexit deal. The you the u. K. Top negotiator meets Michel Barnier today. And Angela Merkels team refuses to rule out linking the state of novalnyeam 2 to the investigation. An hour away from the start of cash trading. At what futures are showing in europe. Gains of about 0. 4 across the board this morning on the euro stock my widely traded contracts as well as ftse and dax futures. We see u. S. Futures showing a mixed picture with nasdaq futures lower and dow futures higher. You can see nasdaq insurers have leapt up. It looks like we may not have the tech the continuation of the tech slump we saw thursday and friday. Remember, the u. S. Yesterday was lows for labor day closed for labor day. What do you see .
Washington has been demanding business transparency and threatens to delist mainland companies. Protests against Police Shootings spread to the nba. Playoff games are canceled as refused toee bucks leader court. Haidi we continue to have that lackrnaut rage despite a of very meaningful headline developments on the positive side. We are getting incremental positivity when it comes to u. S. China trade as well as daily developments on the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine as well. We are seeing futures flat at the moment, lower by. 1 after both the s p and the nasdaq hitting another alltime high. Optimism being seen in the fourth straight day of record highs for u. S. Stocks. The nikkei 225 just erasing some of the earlier moves, flat at the moment when it comes to futures trading in chicago. We wait to hear from president abes press conference tomorrow. The focus being on his health and the future of auburn onyx and where dollaryen goes from here. It is holding at 105. 91 at the moment.