Estimate. The pboc governor says china will implement the phase one deal with the u. S. He said that in an interview with tsinghua. Chinext is down, extending a decline after bearish reversal. China internet stocks were up friday following the ban on tiktok. Some say forget the tencent risk, asian stocks are silly by. Alibaba still a buy. S p. R tech giants on the we have futures in the u. S. 3343. Ng to a flat open, the s p 1 away from its alltime high. This on the outcome of the u. S. Stimulus talks. Also the u. S. China phase one review. We are taking a look at live pictures out of taiwan where alex azar is going to meet the taiwanese president. He is also meeting with taiwans health minister. This is a historic visit. He is the highest ranking u. S. Official to visit in decades, threatening to further stoke tensions between the u. S. And china. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson last week said beijing was opposed to the visit, calling taiwan the most important and sensitive issu
Maybe call it the ultimate catchup trade. If you missed the markets record rebound, fear not because we have three stocks that could be primed to pop later, tiktok you dont stop giving us news, that is. Theres a strange new suitor for the red hot social media app that our traders have our own take of who should put a ring on it so much to get through in the next hour, but let us begin at the beginning a brand new record close for the s p 500. This is by far the fastest bear market exit in history it has been just over 100 days since the benchmark index plunged with lows of the year. Need i remind you of the pandemic panic of march. Were up 55 since then. Its close today by the ever so slimmest of margins putting an official end to the bear market. Guy, the market acting like the pandemic induced lockdown and mass job losses simply never happened is this all, thank you, mr. Federal reserve . Of course it is y the Balance Sheet in february was 4 trillion, now howevering on the side of 7
Annualized basis. Slightly less bad in the estimates. They do expect a contraction of more than 20 . Nonetheless, the nikkei up 2 . You looking at u. S. Jobless claims and payroll, adding urgency around stimulus in washington. The snp active futures in the u. S. Up 1 10 of 1 . The dollar still a big story in terms of the weakness. 6. 97 . Offshore at stronger data suggesting the economic recovery in China Remains on track your the bloomberg dollar index flat. This is what is happening with the dollaryen, flat essentially. The pound on a tear. Have a the boe that will meeting thursday and no action is expected. We will look at some of the commodities as well. 56,10 year yield below yelled at 55. Today we are expected to get details around a treasury in cash issuance and the economic recovery plans in the united states. Thats whats happening with oil at 43 a barrel, down 6 10 of 1 . Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina global coronavirus cases have topped
At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
Infection rates low in tokyo but hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Jack ma looks to make more headlines. He is aiming for a 200 billion valuation with between listings in hong kong and shanghai. Look at how take a we are setting up when it comes to the asian open. We have a lot of positivity carrying on from that session. Investors are backing that buy the dip trend. The nasdaq hitting the alltime high. The s p hitting positive for the year. S p active futures contracts a little bit lower at the moment but it seems like the positive. Evelopment on vaccines trading sideways if you will. The dollar was broadly weaker in g10 except for the yen. We had Dollar Strength and yen weakness overnight. That is the handle we are looking at ahead of Inflation Numbers out of japan and getting machine tool numbers as well as some Retail Sentiment numbers by way of Department Store sales. Crude and gold were both a little bit lower in the asian start to the session. Some positive de