What i think we ought to do as we go into the march meeting and, obviously, in subsequent meetings this year. Charles now, there has been some intriguing action despite what you see in the overall market. Hardhit stocks finding buyers as the coronavirus stocks are actually giving up gains. And then, of course, mixed signals from the socalled safe havennings. Also the crisis deepens around the world, the number just keeps getting higher and higher, the number of countries with confirmed cases topping 50 and that includes mexico. However, the global rates for a vaccine is offering greater hope, and in the Business World we have amazon thats asking all of its employees to defer nonessential travel including in the United States, and just moments ago that google is banning employees from traveling to south korea or japan after one of their employees in zurich reportedly tested positive. Back here at home, california has become the epicenter of the virus with more than half of the confirmed
New notice, saying that the fed will use all its tools to support the american economy. The s p, yeah, it came up off the floor, but it is still down 64 points and the nasdac is still losing 126, todays selling follows the worst single day point loss in history, for all three indices. What will happen in this final hour of trade . It is also the final trading day of february, so what were going to do is keep you rock steady and solid with everything you need to know. Since the thundering bullherd got spooked by the threat of the coronavirus, total equity losses so far coming into today topped 4 trillion. All 11 sectors in the s p right now are in correction meaning they are off 10 or more since their recent highs. Joining the dow, nasdac and s p, as markets fall into correction territory, and are staying there folks the past six sections mark the fastestever decline from record highs all the way down to correction for the s p and the nasdac. The outbreak making its way now into sub san
Bloomberg, just click on the link there. Accept partial deal, thats the chinese blue circle. Well,sions were not going , the redel negotiators circle is essentially when the the potential currency being part of the deal. President trump might be allowing some purchases. 710. Ly below flip the board to have a look at where we are on the currency markets. Southeast asia and asia here as well. They dont live very exciting but they do look better than 60 minutes back. Some of the havens retreating a little bit on the back of this trait news but the headlines are up, that could change everything. Stay tuned for more updates. Looking ahead to those trade discussions and what comes up that. Between theelations currencies, the strongest in years. Topne lets get to the story, sources in washington say the white house is looking at rolling out a previously agreed currency packed with china as part of an Early Harvest deal that could also see an increase next week. Internal deliberations come as
Welcome to daybreak asia, to you live from new york, sydney, and cutting down to the major market opens in asia. The top stories issue sops up ahead of the u. S. Holiday, traders looking at jobs reports and putting bets that the fed is near the end of the tightening cycle. Country garden said to have made a payment on a bond with a separate you on no. And softbank lining up biggest customers as Strategic Investors for their multibilliondollar chipmaker ipo. We are seeing some Downside Pressure today, but muted after the s p 500 saw its best week since june. We are in the Labor Day Holiday weekend in the u. S. , heading towards thin trading. What akin to friday it was interesting because u. S. Stocks rose but they faded after an initial rally as bond yields started climbing. We have a Strong Manufacturing number offsetting that optimism from the jobs data which showed more than of a controlled cooling which could perhaps lead to the fed pausing on its tightening again in september. We a
Equity futures a mixed open in asia. A flood of corporate debt sales before the fed decision. Oil surge adding to inflation worries as saudi arabia and russia extend output cuts through the end of the year. Lets get a quick check of u. S. Futures doing nothing right now. We are well into september, but it has been the Labor Day Weekend in the United States so we only had two trading sessions in september. To say session was basically the s p down for tens of 1 . Traditionally some timber not a great month for markets. It is the worst generally unless they have already rally between 10 and 20 . Given that we have rallied, may be able not be so bad this year. We will have to see. Mike wilson says 3900 is where we will end the year. There are bears out there. Nasdaq futures pointing lower. We had bonds seeing yields rally 15 basis points partially because 40 markets Companies Went to market and sold bonds, so a massive amount of issuance that would have depressed prices somewhat. We had a