In china. China rolls out its fiveyear plan, promising to build a tech powerhouse. Coming his party also wants greater sustainability. At the ecb says more stimulus is coming as eu governments proposed new virus lockdowns. It says bond buying and support wont seize until the covid wont cease until the covid crisis dies down. Shery quick check of the markets, u. S. Futures coming online under pressure, down 1 after disappointing markets in earnings. We managed to end the session higher by more than 1 , s p 500 gaining the most in two weeks. We had strong data to surge Third Quarter u. S. Economic growth and a decline in weekly jobless claims. That recovery in the u. S. , setting us up for a recovery in asia as well. Look at new zealand trading at the moment, ever so slightly higher, asx futures pointing to a gain of. 4 , reversing declines of 1. 6 we saw thursday. Nikkei futures pointing higher, a little weakness though in seoul. Top story, plenty of action after the bell in the u. S. W
Upping its offer for an aid package to 1. 8 trillion, President Trump tweeting go big a positive development on the covid treatment. Gileads treatment helps infected people recover five days faster than average and tech stocks are outperforming as a massive deal is in the work the week capping it off with a bang. Absolutely. The russell 2000 is up 6. 4 for the week the dow is currently positive for the year as a whole, just. Lets get to the stimulus news in washington and the reaction to it. Bob basketball has a look inside the market rally ylan moi, and Dana Peterson from the Conference Board bob, lets start with you on this very nice end to a strong week. Good news and bad news, will. Good news is, s p is up about 3 on the month the bad news is i am seeing a little bit of an inversion of the stimulus play today. Thats concerning if you are a believer in stimulus remember the stimulus play, bicyclicals materials and banks and industry and energy and go light on technology. That was wo
The elements. First to meteorologist kari hall. Kari, is this pretty much our new normal for now . I hope not. I hope we do see changes as we go into the next couple of days. We can loop the smoke over the last 24 hours and see it has not moved. Were seeing it go up in the atmosphere and travels developing story, under way, acrosscountry. Thats what were seeing right now. We want to talk about why do we large fire at port of beruit. Have the orange sky and why its remember, this is where last so smoky right now. Month the massive explosion the problem is were seeing so rocked the city. Much of that smoke when you at least 190 people died in that think about the sunlight and blast that flattened nearby neighborhoods. The cause of the recent fire is those light rays that come through, on the when you unclear but the Lebanese Army says that fire is burning at a warehouse where oil and tires are stored. Have short waves that make it new job numbers came out through and that gives us blue t
Bad reaction. Astrazeneca slams the brakes on a phase 3 vaccine trial after one test patient contracted an unexplained illness. Watch the vaccinemakers at the open tomorrow. The rout resumes. Asian equities post losses after more devastation for u. S. Tech investors. Slumps ses 7 but tesla by a stock record 21 in yesterdays u. S. Session. England prepares to reimpose coronavirus restrictions on the public. Starting next monday, gatherings of more than six people will be banned. Youve been warned. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at the futures picture right now after, you know, the major u. S. Equity benchmarks dropped more than 2 . The nasdaq more than 4 . Now were seeing red arrows once again for european futures. Yesterday was a down day for european stocks as well. Take a look at u. S. Future this is morning after the big drops that we experienced yesterday. Remember yesterday was the first day of trading for u. S. Stocks. They were
Beijing praises the decision while President Trump says he is not a fan. A focusson says now on his cabinet lineup. And plans for structural reform. Are seeing a lot of investors sticking by the sidelines, a quiet session in the u. S. Overnight. Wall street hanging out to see what further guidance we get from the fed after their decision. A great chunk of investors will be waiting for more details as to the revamp inflation target. We are seeing futures trading flat. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rising. The s p seeing a Third Straight session of gains. For a change, we saw gains across tech, outweighing the decline we saw across financials. Treasury yields at the dollar end of the day, where they started. We are seeing the likes of the dollaryen holding steady, this as we look set to see the appointment of yoshida suda as the new japanese Prime Minister. As well as hearing more about whether we will see continuity across his cabinet appointments. We are watching at to see if another