A couple of days on the holiday and we are seeing assets catching down, what weve been seeing most of this week. The csi 300 down. 6 . A lot of focus has been on the renminbi. Fixed slightly stronger, but marginally. Perhaps it has limited the volatility. Weve seen implied vol spike for the offshore renminbi. We are seeing a bit of spread between the onshore and offshore. The onshore at 7. 0 632. We are watching hong kong as we slowly return back to normal. Weve heard from carrie lam that they will open gyms, theaters, massage parlors. 123 in hang seng, up points. U. S. Futures, still heading lower and nifty futures. We will see it seems more troubled when it comes to the indian reopened. And theylot of brawls are slapping a huge tax on liquor sales too. Tom lets get more on the Market Action with Mark Cranfield in singapore. The question of the day on the mliv is how important is trade for these assets . 10 investors look past the tensions between beijing and washington . Maher it wil
Here as well. Looking at continental europe, spain and france are two countries the hardest hit by the coronavirus along with italy. They are set to ease lockdowns. We have Pedro Sanchez expecting to announce the loosening of measures after the weekly Cabinet Meeting which takes place later today. Later today also, france will be presenting the governments blueprint to the National Assembly on tuesday afternoon, and that should outline how they plan to ease peoples confinement as well. Is the original epicenter of the outbreak on the continent that will soon allow people to leave their homes for the first time in weeks, and that should mean they will be joining other countries including the likes of germany and austria in relaxing of shops to array open up including tattoo studios. In the u. K. , Boris Johnson saying the British Public should keep on obeying lockdown rules to avoid a disasters second wave of this outbreak here as well, coming as the number of recorded deaths from coron
Rise as the fallout cripples the global economy. Avoid itsbe forced to growth targets for the year. Shery lets get a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures rising a 10th of 1 . This after u. S. Stocks fell for the first time in three days. We have a mixed corporate bag of earnings. Not to mention worsening economic data. U. S. Companies cutting a record 20. 2 million jobs in april. Tone comingsk off from increased coronavirus cases and deaths in italy and new york. 10 year yield at the highest level in three weeks. The u. S. Has increased the amount of debt plans to issue in quarterly refunding options. We have the s p 500 falling 7 10 of 1 . Utilities and Energy Leading the decline. Lets take a look at what oil is doing. It is rebounding. 2 . Er than higher by this after snapping a five day rally on supply glut. Saw data showing u. S. Gasoline demand is steadily recovery. Lets turn to our top story, the war of words between china and the u. S. Intensify yet again with
Thousand. U. S. Infections rise more than expected. Asia, a second wave is coming. Japans biggest banks are expected to join their global counterparts in bad loan costs. They could see the highest in a decade. Take haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up our final friday session. Positively from wall street after a pretty volatile session. U. S. Stocks faltered early on when President Trump said he was not interested and did not want to speak to xi jinping about the simmering trade tensions. In the beatendown bank stocks as well as energy names gaining on account of this jump we saw in crude prices. We are setting up positivity. Futures, both in australia and hong kong, and also in japan, setting up for a higher open, sophie. Ishie President Trump ratcheting up tensions with china amid the coronavirus and trade war. This is what he said about talks with xi jinping. Pres. Trump i have a very Good Relationship but i just, right now, i do not want to speak to him. There are many t
Business lending facilities to keep credit flowing as u. S. Job losses surge past 30 million. Shery lets get started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing pressure on u. S. Futures, falling more than a percent at the moment, after the s p 500 fell from the sevenweek high. But yes, it was the best month since 1987. We saw the s p 500 climbing 13 this month. We have more pessimism about the economy today. We had dismal jobless claims data. Slowing down but elevated. We have positive sentiment being filtered through with the fed expanding the scope of the main Street Lending program. Also, the nasdaq was helped by results from microsoft, facebook, and tesla. When it comes to wti, we continue to see extended gains. It is trading near 19 per barrel. This, as we saw signs of fuel consumption start to recover in the u. S. We have a few markets that are closed across asia. China,cludes hong kong, singapore, india, and many more. Limited trading in the asian session. Haidi yeah. Shar