In the last 10 days. The u. S. And china trade new barbs. Washington rejects chinas claim to the South China Sea. Top u. S. Senators are facing mainland sanctions. Haidi u. S. China sentiments dominating again with the grim overlay of rolling back restrictions around the world. This is how we are shaping up when it comes to u. S. Futures contracts, up by. 2 after what was a truly volatile session. We had the s p 500 touching levels prepandemic and we also have the nasdaq hitting a fresh record before finishing in the red and we spoke about tesla being a huge part of that tech eventual close lower. Nikkei futures up by. 2 percent. Sydney futures escalating in the red, point 8 lower, looking like a set up of. 5 lower, this as we are expecting an announcement today that the fed of New South Wales will ease back those restrictions when it comes to indoor gatherings at pubs after cases coming from the pubs. It is now over 20. New zealand trading modestly higher, about. 25 . Some significant
Markets in the weeks ahead. Still pumping more oil into the market from saudi arabia. It comes to the coronavirus story that continues to dominate, President Trump says the u. S. Should be prepared for a painful couple of weeks. Infection rates continue to rise in the u. S. We are hopefully seeing some stabilization in countries like spain and italy. Overall, the global infection rate has passed 800,000. Yvonne. Avon the ecb scrapping european banks. Thats what is weighing on the hang seng. Earnings coming through, really a key indicator in the next couple of weeks. Autos reacting negatively. Down six. 5 . The pboc should impact further cash injections and local authorities should issue more infrastructure bonds. Supporting the economy amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic. Selina wang joining us now from beijing. How significant is this . How should we read into that yvonne that . Selina those pmi numbers coming in better than expected. Back into expansionary territory. Compared to
World, gaining. I want to focus on the 10 year yield. The fed announced yesterday some repo operations, announced again this morning they will buy some longer dated maturities. That is not helping the treasury market given the risk on feeling. Youre getting a lift up in yields higher, but the good news is the vix is coming down a little bit, which makes us all take a little bit of a sigh of relief. Take a look at this chart. It can get a little become located. The blue line is today. The white line is what happened in 1929. We are looking at the amount of days you are seeing 4 moves in any given direction up or down. The last time this happened was 1929. David how about that . A fateful year. We are now joined from newton, massachusetts by former u. S. Treasury secretary and Bloomberg Contributor Larry Summers. Thank you for being back with us today. We are going to hear from the president at 3 00 this afternoon eastern time. What would you like to hear from the president of the United
Stronger then expected. It is year on year for the month of december. In terms of fixed Asset Investment, we are looking. Investment for december. Context stabilizing. Of the early indicators are looking robust. Of course, some of at the localimulus government level, supporting fixed Asset Investment. We are looking at the bottom of this slow down. Lets send it to our next guest. Next guest. Theuse i would say that december number was picking up further. Especially with the help of more , i would say that we are turning more bullish. It is the secondbiggest in terms of growth over the last two years or so. Can you elaborate . We have seen that ip demand picking up. More demand coming out from southern china. Been drier than usual. People are waiting to frontload some of the orders, particularly early this year. You probably need to get most things done in the fourth quarter. Into the first quarter, we saw demand and names holding up pretty well yvonne . Retail sales have held around 10
The u. S. May give approval next month, but either regulators are more cautious. Tencent music find the right beat with earnings topic the highest analyst estimates. Lets take a look at how asian markets are set to trade today after a pretty terrible session yesterday. We did not get a great lead from the u. S. Wall street seeing very thin volumes and expert tatian still high that we will see this trade deal but some uncertainty coming through in the mix as well as you look at yesterdays trading due to we are looking at trading starting in sydney, i staggered open pretty much flat at the open after a robust session on monday. New zealand trading at 1 10 of 1 ahead of the rbnz decision. Economists split about whether we will see another 25 basis points easing from the new releases new zealand central bank. We will get some hints to what direction they will go with the inflation exit tatians report later today as well as housing prices. To cargo nikkei futures flat at the moment. We are