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An eye watering loss. Costsosses and rising mean bonuses are set to disappoint. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat. This, of course, after we had the regular session seeing record highs. At one point, topping the record reached in february before the pandemic. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the green. We have nikkei futures moving higher as we have the japanese yen under pressure. We have seen it fall against the u. S. Dollar for the past four sessions. Right now trading around the weakest in three weeks. In sydney, futures higher. We have the aussie dollar listed a little bit higher. We have a softer u. S. Dollar, not to mention higher commodity prices. We have kiwi stocks at the moment gaining ground after seeing the worst day in a month. This as we have rbnz expanding their qe program. Gains in the currency returns, commodity exports, unr holdings qnr holding steady. U. S. And chinese negotiators plan to discuss progress in the phase one trade deal. Pushing toset to be widen the a
August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
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