Infections heading towards 16 million. Hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Has extended the Wage Subsidy Program beyond september to protect the economy from fallout from coronavirus. Shery a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off unchanged. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rally amid encouraging vaccine news, this time from the university of oxford and astrazeneca. The s p 500 finished at the highest since february, turning positive for the year. Tech and discretionary stocks outperforming. The vaccine optimism sort of faded. We have a very Competitive Landscape that failed to impress. Risk was revived in the afternoon session following improved u. S. Infection numbers. California and arizona reporting a slow down infections. We still have that stayathome defense rate being back with strength. The underperformance from the russell 2000 very pronounced, while the nasdaq also finished at another record high. Take a look at what
The u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei the u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei from its 5g network. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the Unemployment Rate for the month of june coming in at 4. 3 . Now, this is lower than the estimate of 4. 5 . The Unemployment Rate falling from the previous month. We have seen a little bit of strength in the south korean economy with more positivity coming from that ramp up in government job creation efforts. Still, we have those negative effects from the pandemic with the hardhit hospitality and Retail Sectors continuing to reel. South korea losing jobs. Those removed in june from a year earlier. Still, the Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 3 . Lets get a quick check on how markets are trading at the moment. U. S. Futures rallying. We have after the market closed more positive news when it comes to the vaccine front from motor and a. In the regular session, we saw u. S. Stocks posting their biggest gains in more than a week. 7 . Thi
That is a quarter of global infections with california seeing its biggest daily jump yet. When we look at chinas new security law for hong kong and protesters are already changing strategies to steer clear of arrest. First, lets get you a quick check up on how markets are starting this morning. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie asian stocks are gearing up for modest gains. We are seeing s p eminis moving slightly higher this morning and kiwi stocks are heading for a second day of losses when meridian and another Energy Company leading the climbs on rio tinto deciding to Halt Operations in new zealand. The hong kong dollar staying resilient within one standard deviation as they continue to defend the currency and markets shrug off a threat to the peg. Switching off the board to the terminal chart. We are watching to see if the the best sinceng september 2019. We are keeping an eye to see of chinas market value can top 10 million after pushing beyond nine for the First Time
And the 775 barely. Seven point 75 barely. China is trying to cool down more. This rally also in tech stocks in shenzhen. Marginal gains in the csi 300, but the chinext seems to be on fire. 8 10 of 1 higher for shenzhen small caps. Keep in mind, offshore investors also sowed sold a record amount of stocks recently. Seems tohe hang seng, be brushing aside the executive order from President Trump. We are seeing the rally up more than 200 points for your hang seng. We are watching things like export data out of indonesia, indian trade numbers. When it comes to the philippines, that is the only loser on the board today. We are expecting to hear from the president to announce the latest quarantine measures. They have not really been able to stop this virus there. The nikkei up 3 10 of 1 . Steady stream of earnings in tokyo. Taking a look at the dollar, that seems to be dropping. You are watching things like your dollaryen unchanged around 107. U. S. Yields at. 63 basis points. Oil after fou
Quickly. And staying strong. The worlds top iron ore prices are among the highest out of china. Shery lets get you started with another check of how markets are trading at the moment. Futures underu. S. Pressure as stocks fell to the lowest level in two weeks. We are seeing it down 0. 7 . Than 2 ,00 lost more same for the dow and the nasdaq. The dow losing more than 700 points. We had the sharp increase in virus cases, adding to economic anxiety. So risk off positioning was very strong last week. We did get positive data over the weekend, signs that the chinese economy is continuing to recover and profits rebounding in may for the First Time Since november. Take a look at what oil is doing because it continues to fall. Actually, we saw a second week of declines, the second weekly decline since april. We continue to have these lower prices after a cautious rebound, now headed towards 37 a barrel for wti. We also had chesapeake filing for bankruptcy in the u. S. , one of the biggest vict