Taking a break yesterday, but we have apple climbing again. Investors want in on this defensive and growthy tech stop. Facebook up 4. 7 after facebook and twitter both blocked President Trump, a video on covid misinformation. Facebook getting a bounce on that considering they had not taken a strong action in the past, something some investors wanted to see. Making it interesting, when we take a look at the vix on the nasdaq 100, it is higher. That tells you going into the payrolls report or some expectation volatility tomorrow could pop. David stocks may not be moving much yet, but there is action on the bond side. My question is how low can the 10 year yield go. We are well into negative territory on the real yield. Abigail this is a great question. We have had this rally for stocks, not just out of the march lows, but more recently as the nasdaq has been carving out alltime highs. Over the last five weeks, bonds have been rallying. A very persistent rally in stocks and bonds. Many fo
Markets under pressure this morning to the tune of 100, 74 points lower, nasdaq is up 7 points. S p 501 just down a 500 just a point. House democrats passing Police Reform bill but not expected to make it to President Trumps desk. A bill bruised in the senate to allow autonomous zones as the president prepares to sign off on order to protect monuments. Unanimously passing sanctions in country in reaction to restrictions of hong kongs freedoms. 2020 race, new polls show joe biden leading in key battleground states. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning. Cac quarante up 77 and dax index in germany 115 points. European central bank kristin lagard said the worst of the coronavirus is still behind him but concern of a second wave to come potentially. In ash overnight, markets were mixed, markets in china remain close for holiday. Asian economies head to worst quarter since 2008 in the financial crisis. Kospi was up 1 , and japan nikkei average up better th
Chinese demand levels almost at precrisis level. Time for todays market moving news from our washington and new york teams. We want to start with fed chair jay powells comments on the economy. In an interview with cbs, he expressed confidence in the recovery, but timing is still hard to predict. Chair powell the economy will recover. It may take a while. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really dont know. Michael mckee, International Economics and policy correspondent, has more. Was there anything new on cbs . Michael nothing really new, just summarizing what we already knew from the fed and from economists and disease experts. He suggested that what it is really going to take is a vaccine before people feel really confident and the economy can start to move back in the direction of where it was before all of this started. He said congress and the central bank may need to do more to keep us afloat during that period. Appropriate government policy could buy time for work
A drop in the pound as a fill more than one percent in early trade tuesday the reason well media reports of the British Government will block a delay to a post break the transition period media reports indicate that johnson will add a revision to the brigs that Withdrawal Agreement bill that would explicitly rule out an extension of the transition period beyond december of 2020 currently the u. K. Is due to leave the e. U. By january 31st 2020 the fear is that the new Prime Minister will steer the country toward a harder braggs it and that means under the legislation britain would have only 11 months during the transition period for a trade deal to be struck with the e. U. And there are concerns that 11 months is not enough time so lets take a deeper dive here bring in hillary for which board member with the British American Business Association hilary glad to have you here pleasure ben christie there are concerns about this harder turn towards braggs it but isnt that what Boris Johnso
A much clearer picture of whether or not theres going to be a resolution all right so with those other asian markets well. While markets in asia and the u. S. Gained amid high optimism analysts reiterate that we still dont have a trade deal signed yet and there are still a number of things that can go wrong further details including structural changes to intellectual Property Rights remain unclear and as a trumpet ministration is splitting hairs between the right and wrong translators nothing is going to hide the fact that the benchmark import targets are completely unfeasible there is also a general euphoria across all markets because uncertainty has come down there is another escalation but investors should not be complacent playing into the santa rally asian markets got a slight boost after a surprise improvement in novembers Industrial Production and retail numbers but this could simply be a seasonal rebound as a result beijing sees no reason to launch major fiscal stimulus yet and