The scene. We had the huge selloff down 35 from the highs then the giant bounce back this week, up 19. 9 going into today. A real pasting most of it at the end of the dow with the dow slipping 915 pounds, s p climbing 3. 3 . Nasdaq falling 3. 79 just like yesterday, which had the big whoosh up, this had the whoosh down. We need to figure out whats next either a continuation of the selloff evolving into a retest, where the market goes back into earlier lows or take them out or resting period, setting us up for the next move higher not much in between here what makes the situation so dicey . Next friday we get the labor departments nonfarm payroll report based on this weeks hideous jobless claims number, we could expect a real doosey this market is a tug of war between the bears bracing for a possible depression if we cant stop covid and the bulls betting on a boom if we do beat it because of the liquidity being injected into the system by the Federal Reserve and by the 2 trillion build
Warns america to prepare for a painful time as new york surpasses chinas Hubei Province in reported cases, the deadliest day so far. Japan proposes its biggest ever stimulus package as the virus threatens a deep recession. The Business Survey this hour will gauge some of the damage. Haiti. Haidi haidi. Haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up in australia. Trickling online in the staggered open, seeing early signs of positivity when it comes to this market after ending the session lower yesterday. We are seeing upside of about. 7 at the moment as we are awaiting the rba march 18 Meeting Minutes later today. We are trying to get past the worst quarter ever, so downside of 25 for australian stocks over the last three months today is a new day and new zealand, we are seeing gains for a Third Straight session as the rbnz is doubling down in the bond purchase program. Japanese shares looking a little bit lower. They had the worst quarter since 2008 and the kospi also trending lower a
Markets i treasuries as well. The aussie 10 year yield down 16 basis points and money rush into the end. Oil in a bit of a freefall once again. Brent crude down more than 6. 5 . We areke below 20 and watching indonesia here in particular just coming online. The stock index drops re. 5 . Once again, we are seeing a lot of these em volatilities, back once again. We are watching the pboc after that interesting move to cut the seven day repo rate by 20 basis points so they are joining in on the stimulus ways. Lets get more on this with david ingles coming forward. We are watching u. S. Futures in particular continue to head lower. Lets start with the 7 billion injection into the system. I mean, quite a bit. David yes. A couple of things i guess to get out there. You dont normally see a reduction of this magnitude from the pboc. You also have to consider the fact that we know the economy is not doing well and in fact, the latest forecasts now suggest quarter on quarter, you take the median.
Activist investors to push out jack dorsey from twitter. An interview with the impossible foods cfo on plans to enter china despite the spread of the coronavirus. The Global Smartphone market has been slowing down for some time. The coronavirus will only make it worse. Smartphone shipments will drop 2. 3 to around 1. 3 billion units. Paul allen and emily chang spoke with the ibc president on wednesday. We have a number of analysts looking at this. We would say the tightest ingredient in this is the people. People are not fully back to work. With think the manufacturers in china are mainly 30, 30 5 35 of capacity. They are slowly starting to ramp back up. China also has been a place where many components are manufactured. From that standpoint, what we have now is we believe the tightest components will be pc base and screens. That would fit with the story we have today, that if you are having trouble with replacement parts, what is one of the biggest parts . You drop your phone and you
As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. 1650 dollars near a troy ounce. Haidi taking a look at a deeper dive, david is in hong kong. What you watching