Record high after a global meltdown melt up on monday. Futures are pointing lower. The cash trade tray is less than an hour away. Hong kong on notice. Microsoft joins google, facebook, and twitter in pausing government user data requests. Tiktok also pulls out of hong kong. The risk rally pauses. Equity markets and futures trade grow aboutncerns rising coronavirus infections. Bloomberg learns that Deutsche Bank and google are planning a 10 Year Partnership on cloud and tech investment. Computing and tech investment. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Futures are down right now. We see losses on ftse futures of 0. 5 . About 0. 6 . Es, futuresxx you choose down about 0. 7 . Yesterday we got germany factory orders, missing the mark. Coming out at a 10 gain compared to a 15 estimate. Now we are getting german 7. 8 . Rial output rising that is the month over month figure. The estimate was for 11. 1 . Dataagain, german economic missing the estimate,
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Payments to lower income households. Aid to households households with children. One year tax referral. Cuts, money handouts for businesses and households it seems like officials in tokyo are stepping up to try to support the economy as they look to implement an emergency lockdown as early as tomorrow. That is likely when it will be announced. It will be starting on april 8. We will continue to digest the details from that package. They did see a thousand cases in japan and we are waiting for more announcements from shinzo abe, planning to declare a state of emergency. We are still seeing equities heading higher. U. S. Futures falling. The press briefing from President Trump, perhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel. They are seeing some signs of stabilization when it comes to new infections. Europe is also seeing a peak in cases. Asia, we are up about 1 . It is still very much the oil story. Doubts about what a deal could look like, is the u. S. Going to be involved, is it cond
Minutes 20 minutes or so has seen lows across safe havens to dollarchina as well. For eighttrack volumeheavy daytoday. Day today. We are on track for 35 billion today. It is a busy day of trade. Trades inxas, 55,000 the first 60 minutes on a front and contract in west texas. Iran is launching what it calls revenge attacks with missile launches onto bases that host u. S. Troops. What to me know so far about irans actions what do we know so far about irans actions . It was a series of attacks on these two bases. The Islamic Revolutionary guard corps claimed responsibility quickly. In the be interesting uns u. S. Response. There has been a lossoflife and how much damage was done . They were on high alert with those facilities, because i ran have thes thought to highest amount of short range missiles in the region and this was thought to be the retaliation to expect. Iran has been saying that they will avenge the death of the general and are calling it a terer operation murder martyr opera
Consumer prices beat forecasts. Shery shinzo abe faces yearend pressure. His popularity is sinking to its lowest in more than a year. Japan is coming online alongside the south korea as well. Lets get straight to the Market Action with sophie. Sophie. Sophie we are in the final stretch of 2019. Japanese stocks did manage to pull through on thursday. The topix with an eight day drop. The topix hitting ground along with the nikkei 225. Today, stocks are trading exdividend today. Lets check in on the open in seoul. We are seeing downside moves for the kospi. We will see what the index can crack 2200 points. Switching it now to check in on the mood in sydney, the asx 200 gaining some ground with gold miners among the biggest advancers. Resolute leading the pack, jumping 7. 5 percent earlier with spot gold on course for the best year since 2010. Jumping into the terminal, that momentum could make for a solid 2020 for gold as traders make attempts to carve out a higher trading range after bu