Frontiers for that sector in the new decade and facebook being called the new cigarettes for our society by the founder of salesforce. Com his critical take on the social media giant as Worldwide Exchange begins right nowe to exchange im dierdre bosa in for Brian Sullivan the second to last day of 2019, take a look at stock futures right now pretty much flat they are on track for a block buster year as i mentioned the s p on track for potentially its best year in two decades if it can squeeze out gains of nearly 30 . 29. 6 is the gain that we are looking at dow jones and the nasdaq also on track for a record year. Moving on to the bond market, the yield on the tenyear note currently 1. 912 lets go worldwide now in asia, markets were mixed in the last two days of the years investors awaiting updates on the trade deal and increasing tensions with north korea. Japan wrapping up its final trading day of 2019, down slightly, but the nikkei, that was up 18 for the year and what a turn around
Major averages muted after the rally that closed last week. Dow and s p breaking a three week losing streak nasdaq best week in a month. Tech stocks are part of the story. Where are the buying opportunities . Christina hooper joins us with larry glazer good morning to you both good to see you. Do you think anything fundamentally changed as a result of the talks . No, but i think markets got ahead of themselves. I mean, lets think of it not as phase one, but phase 0. 5 the u. S. Thinks they made an agreement, china doesnt necessarily believe the same stocks got a little ahead of themselves, but there are always opportunities to find tech gems out there. Where are they . At least, what leads you to them in this environment now . Well, i advocated that chinese took looks very attractive, that has been beaten down since the u. S. china trade wars began seen small recoveries, but there are a lot of opportunities in chinese tech. Why do you think the administration is trumpeting partial deal
We hear exclusively from eric rosengren. China is accused of using social media to undermine the protest in hong kong. Twitter and facebook delete a string of fake accounts. Shery how markets closed. It was another day of strong rally with the s p 500 gaining more than 1 . Every sector was in the green. Energy amtech led the gains. Lead the and tech gains. A positive sentiment with trade. That was reflected with the u. S. Dollar. It rallied to this years high. Gain 250 points. The nasdaq up 1. 4 . Doing much butt lets see how things will be shaping up in asia. Conviction investors will be tested with futures looking at a mixed session. Kiwi stops adding. 6 . We have the strong dollar to contend with which may put a damper on Risk Appetite for emerging markets today. We are on tech watch. We have xiaomis earnings on the lineup after baidus results came out overnight. Onay, were keeping an eye the rba meeting minutes. Trade data from taiwan and today rate the pbocs loan prime. A key mile
From europe and the u. S. Here are your markets. We are seeing a little bit of flatlining for european stocks. Try to figure out exactly what will happen when President Trump meets with president xi jinping. The u. S. 10 year yield is holding just about 2 . Brent at 66. 34. We are seeing a big move with gold. It is the last trading day of the month, so watch out for any volatility. What marlon is doing merlin, announcing a couple of private equities were learning at the company. They are the owner of madame tussaud, amongst other entertainment things in london. Coming up, more from our exclusive interview with the the with the fran San Francisco fed president. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Ifit is too early to know the Federal Reserve should cut rates, according to San Francisco fed president mary daly. They are widely expected to cut in july. We spoke exclusively with mary daly at the aspen ideas festival in colorado. If the data comes in and shows significant weaken
Time for some sport, lets go to the sport centre, Gavin Is Standing by. The final two spots in the European Champions League quarter finals are up for grabs after arsenal and barcelona secured their places on tuesday. Borussia dortmunds game against psv was finely poised ahead of their second leg last 16 tie. Its 1 0 dortmund there in germany, with about 30 minutes gone. Jadon sancho with the goal. And inter held the advantage over atletico madrid, from their first leg tie. It is currently goalless there in spain. One game in the Premier League to tell you about its the rearranged fixture between bournemouth and luton town. Into the second half of that one and 0 3 luton. Tahith chong and Chiedozie Ogbene and ross barkley with the goals. This fixture was abandoned late last year, after Luton Captain tom lockyer suffered a Cardiac Arrest on the pitch. Luton are out of the relegation places with a win. Keep up to date with all the latest scores on the bbc sport website. Jurgen klopp says