Elusive. And suppose he says the house is. Transformed samsung into a global tech giant has died. Paul lets take a look at the markets right now. The asx in australia has just opened for trade at the start of the new week. We do have a staggered open. Pretty hard to get a bead on things. Pretty flat at the moment. We are waiting for cocacola to open on the news of this deal that the European Partners are moving to acquire the Company Valued at 9. 3 billion to underscore some of the consolidation going on. The aussie dollar holding a threeyear gain as the u. S. Stimulus talks continue to drag on. U. S. Futures looking a little weaker as well as nancy pelosi and mark meadows but he might accuse each other of quote, moving the goal post. Nikkei futures are pointing weaker as well. That is going to be a busy earnings week in japan. Starting off with kanaan reporting today with cannon reporting today. Lets start off with china at where the leaders are gathering in beijing to map out the fiv
Out his vision to drive new Economic Growth and draw hong kong closer to the mainland. Offapple takes the wraps the iphone 12. And pricey. Analysts say it could trigger a new wave of sales. Haidi all right, lets take a look at how we are setting up going into trading, and australia, weakness as expected with equity futures. About 1 10 of 1 . Reasonablethere were earnings out from banks, putting an end to the stalemate and a contention over another round of stimulus with the white house and democrats in disarray over negotiations. The aussie dollar also trading 158, and we heard from the australian treasurer speaking earlier, commenting on the tensions with china, saying the relationship has been challenging but that it is vastly important and a relationship of mutual benefit. We will continue to watch that and others, as well, given the concerns about the import ban when it comes to australian coal into china. Kiwi stocks, modest to the upside. Going from strength to strength. Of cours
Protests against a label law that was passed earlier this month that opponents say will erode workers rights and dismantle environmental protection. This is the dollar index on the way down. One week lows earlier on today. The euro new york crude moving to the downside. We had the report on inventories showing u. S. Stockpiles were indeed much higher than had been anticipated. Dollar weakness, golds gain. Tom lets bring you the first word news and a catch up on the pandemic situation in europe. Be amains and continues to coronavirus hotspot, with new daily infection records in germany and the netherlands. Ing a curfew in madrid. Manchester is being forced into the u. K. s strictest curbs. In the u. S. , new yorks governor blames President Trump for virus deaths in his state, calling him a liar and a super spreader. California is easing restrictions in San Francisco. By the u. S. Ing sued Justice Department for abusing its monopoly in search in what seen as the most significant antitrus
This trillion budget deficit the australian budget deficit turmoil withs in tensions in china and the virus lockdowns. Shery lets get a quick check of the market. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online a quarter percent higher at the moment. In the broader context of things, the s p 500 goes down for the fourth consecutive week. On friday we did see some misfires and after the market closed we had news that stimulus count had resumed stimulus talks had resumed between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and steepener nguyen. W steve mnuchin. 4 . Is down it did manage to stay above that 40 per barrel level but we do have concerns over the virus search. The dollar seeing its best week since april. Haidi we are seeing currencies in asia at this early part of the session holding pretty steady. We are seeing some downsides when it comes to trading already. Isare looking like tech possibly following the lead in the korean and japanese markets. In asia, it is a muted first half of the week w
To the right with his choice of amy coney barrett. It would make it a 63 conservative split. Hitting a high know. Aims top behind bts raise 800 million in koreas largest ipo in years. Lets take a look at how we are setting up for the asian trading session. They hope to follow the momentum we saw in the u. S. Session on friday in particular with these gains in tech stocks. S p futures looking pretty positive,. 3 . Optimism as we get to the open in tokyo. A quiet first half of the week. We do have japanese throughput later on this week as well as decisions out of the philippines as well as india. Disney futures up by. 3 , as they continue to see growing concerns about the impact on the economy when some of these fiscal support measures start to peter out. We do have some optimistic news when it comes to the listing in victoria. New zealand off by 1. 5 . Dragged down by some of the dairy names. Tom the clock is ticking on tiktok. We are in our way from trumps ban that takes place midnight