Negative territory down by. 2 . The dollar gaining strength and crude is all over the place. You wind up having opec leaders meeting and talking about maybe extending a deal through 2022. That comes from the Saudi Oil Minister. So the oil market is trying to digest that. The big news has been what is happened with apple. A 2 trillion market cap. We knew it was coming and now it is official. Isning me more is the but you are global on fx, apple, what do you do with that . Anne from a fundamental equity standpoint i cannot have any comments on all, that i would stay that say that this level of market cap is a success and that there Monetary Policy policy easing, the giant firehose of liquidity as well as actions by the European European Central Bank and bank of japan has bouyed the equity market and we are seeing a little bit of a rally and everything. We talked about that before the virus and it is interesting to see that we are back at that point and it reflects a tremendous amount of
About seven basis points. Still an awful long way to go on that story. Vonnie in the u. S. , it is a positive session, slightly risk on. We have some guidelines for when the economy might start to reopen in new york city and in various economies around the country. Markets hanging onto that. Banks are the best performers in the s p 500, which is up 0. 9 right now. They are followed by Consumer Services and real estate. The yen is stronger today as well, off its highs now. 107. 20. T crude down at 12. 40. That continues to darken. The 10 year yield is now up to 65 basis points. Slightly risk on tone today. Talk a bit about what is happening in a little more detail. Italy, france, spain announcing plans to ease lockdown restrictions as the british Prime Minister pours a little cold water on the idea. Giuseppe conte in italy raising concerns about a possible second wave of infections that could trigger irreversible damage to the economy. Lets talk about the risks surrounding reopening and
Exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Ndc,brussels to New York New York ndc new york and d. C. You chief negotiator michel chief negotiator Michel Barnier says negotiations were often tough. Negotiations over the past days have at times been delivered but we have , and we have delivered together. Alix anna edwards is in brussels with more. What is actually in the deal . Anna it is taking a little while to get through all the detail, but what was going to change is nothing much in the withdrawal agreement, apart from the deal with ireland. Theyve gotten rid of the backstop and put in place something else, which looks very complex, and something the dup does not support. It involves changing the way some voting happens in Northern Ireland, the amount of concession to give to the process. It seems like they are Still Holding out. Theres also the political declaration about what they want to do next. On that side, some other parties in the
Crude turning positive in the last few minutes at 58. 18. I wanted to point out one of the conundrums in the stock market today, the steel sector was downgraded at j. P. Morgan in the premarket. All of the Steel Companies were lower. This follows still companies in europe as well still companies in europe as well down lower. Right now u. S. Steel is back up about half a percent. Lots of optimism in this u. S. Market. Not so much over here. Not when it comes to the manufacturing sector. The economy grinding to a halt in the third quarter. Factories slump and it started to bleed through into the Services Sector as well. Specifically, germany is ignores downturn and most seven years. We are joined now by stephen macklowsmith, Market Strategist for the International Equity group. Good afternoon. The data are bad, stephen. Is that reflected fully and European Equity markets . At the moment, yes. You think about where the markets are, basically unchanged in 12 months. Theres been a substanti
Disagrees. As ecb bond buying divides opinion, we will hear from Christine Lagarde, plus how negative yields are impacting the Worlds Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund. Matt i know what the big news for you was last night. Number in the u. S. Showing manufacturers in contraction was fascinating. It definitely moved markets. If you are, even sitting in the u. K. , there is no doubt that was one of the biggest market moving things yesterday in terms of increasing fears, changing the price on futures. We will discuss that. Matt we will touch on brexit. We are going to be going down to westminster throughout the morning and following the fall out of last nights vote. Lets take a look at the market numbers right now, starting with asian equity indexes after those big drops in u. S. Stocks. We see asian stocks rising. Yen bouncing back a little bit. Just an hour ago. To sellare more willing safe haven assets in the last 60 minutes. Crude oil i think fascinating. Weakness we have seen in crude oi