Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
Facebook reported amazing number last time. Amazon gave you an amazing upside surprise and it got steam rolled it was hideous nonenonetheless, and i know that. There is the right way to look at it or the wrong way we dont look at the action and we are back to form an opinion about the quarter. Thats the wrong way the right way when a Company Reports great number and the stock gets slammed, you look at the set up often because of an event like say an impending election. I am expecting massive confusion. One of the most confusing weeks of my career unless the results are blow out this day, we may not know who won plus with mail ballots nobody wants to unstock a bowl of confusion why not sell everything on monday for starters, you are too late what the heck did you think was happening. More importantly you are not nimble enough to get back in after you gotten out look at our quality stock selling off right now. You definitely want to get back in take amazon and facebook with unbelievely g
Small businesses. The airlines in dire situation. United and american saying they have to cut jobs, tens of thousands of them, as borders remain pretty much locked down. Yvonne you are seeing the president trying to do at least some damage control after he talked to negotiators to pull out of talks for a stimulus. Perhaps we are seeing some targeted measures. You have seen the market impact. The nasdaq and futures reversing the losses we were gaining. U. S. Futures are up. We will see if this bodes well for the rest of asia. If you look at the rest of the asia region, it looks like risk assets are looking less entire than the wall street session. We are seeing a bid for aussie against the japanese currency. When it comes to u. S. 10 year yield, we are holding steady, but the move up in yields on the announcement from trump. Stocks have been lower. Jakarta life coming back online. We are heading lower in jakarta. Hangseng up about 163 points. A touch higher for some markets. The rbi is
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Haslinda we want to show off u. S. Live pictures. Mike pomp
Board, again, trying to challenge the tesla hold on the market. Wm has a factory in shanghai. Lets check the markets. Risk off on the u. S. , falling 2 on wall street on the back of concerns about u. S. Jobless claims. The virus, above 4 million cases now in the United States. And as we said, concern that the economy in the u. S. Is in trouble. Screen, read on the broadly across the msci asiapacific, down. 6 . On the mainland would just talked about the proposed ipo by wm motors, small caps setting off more than 2 as we get for the end of the week. Ong kong looking attractive to investors, it seems, down. 2 percent, up despite concerns highlighted earlier. Weakened byyuan. 1 , currently around seven in terms of the offshore yuan. The aussie dollar and the japanese yen, looking at that as well, the 10year basis point, 58 for the 10 year as a result of the risk off we had at the end of the day on wall street. Chinese, 2. 91. Gold at 1. 46 in terms of the goldsilver index, and philadelphi