Fallout to spread beyond the walls largest economy. As the brexit bluster ramps up, why Boris Johnsons threat is leaving most economists and traders unruffled for now. Haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up when it comes to the asian trading session this tuesday. U. S. Markets remain largely close for the Labor Day Holiday and this is how we are shaping up when it comes to the futures session, looking like we could get some positive momentum going into the resumption of trade. S p active futures up. 7 after the s p closed at the lowest level since august. We have the tech selloff really continue until full force on friday and will have to see whether that resumes when trading resumes later on this week. The nikkei 225 is up by. 3 when it comes to the future session as we get the leadership race in japan officially kicking off dollaryen pretty steady. 106 and a. We have the dollar rising against every g10 peer. The u. K. Is getting closer to that Nodeal Brexit scenario. New yor
33 . Jobless claims rise for a second week with 17 million filing for benefits. International condemnation of hong kongs decision to bar a dozen prodemocracy candidates from Upcoming Elections as chinas new security law breaking news out of south korea. We are getting june Industrial Production numbers and they are a strong beat for the month on month numbers for june, a growth of 7. 2 . The estimate was for growth of around 2 . It is also coming after the previous number was revised downward, so its a bigger beat than expected. The year on year number still in contraction but only up. 5 percent. The expectation was for a plunge of 5 . The previous number was revised downward. We have seen a little bit more optimism. Manufacturers confidence in south korea rising. We have seen export declines starting to ease. Chinese demand rising, not to mention demand in the chip industry as well so the month on month number really a pop up 7. 2 growth, haidi. Today would be an interesting litmus te
Potential pandemic. Investors dont seem to care. U. S. Markets close out the best quarter since 1998 with the s p 500 up 20 . Gold is trading near 1800. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening under a little bit of pressure at the moment, down 2 10 of 1 . This as we just mentioned, u. S. Stocks finishing the best quarter in more than two decades. We are talking about a 20 increase in the last three months. We have the s p 500 seeing the best two days in about three weeks. All 11 sectors finished up. The dow underperformed a little bit compared to other major indices. A plunge in boeing. Terminating their purchases of all remaining jets on order. Take a look at what oil is doing. We have seen it gain ground. It is continuing to rise near 40 a barrel. It just posted its best quarter in nearly 30 years, bouncing back from that historic price crash. Really climbing from negative territory in april. Haidi yeah, it really is the histo
A new flu strain in china is seen as another potential pandemic. Investors dont seem to care. U. S. Markets close out their best quarter since 1998 with the s p 500 up 20 . Gold trading near 1800. Picture when split it comes to these gains we are seeing across equities and the continued gains we are expecting to see in asia. Havens still seeing those gains as well. Above 1800 for the First Time Since 2011. This is what we are setting up for in terms of the first day of the new quarter. Up by 1 10 of 1 as we get some analysis later of those numbers. Atwell as dollaryen trading 10 75. A little bit of Dollar Strength at play. Weakness when it comes to trading in the aussie dollar despite the jump above 69 u. S. Dollars from the back of those better than expected u. S. Pmi numbers. We are continuing to watch out for Market Reaction as to the geopolitical headlines to do with hong kong. Right. Lets turn to the city marking 23 years of chinese rule with the president signing a Landmark Secur
Brokered. Weekrude about 13 on the but we cant go without pointing out we are down about 50 on the year. The dow, the nasdaq, the s p down roughly 1. 5 on the day. The big decline or is really the russell 2000. A lot of concerns about what the smaller and Midcap Companies are going to fair. We also saw a selloff in the financial space. The bank index down about 4. 8 on the week. We should also point out, on the weekly gains and losses, the only three sectors that managed to close with gains this week was energy, consumer staples, and health care. Also up about 2 , scarlet. Scarlet it is interesting how weve seen the gains that initially came at the open disappear pretty quickly. For all the talk that the data is backwards looking, the fact that it is friday and we have so much uncertainty i had of us with worsening numbers presumably means that investors dont want to be long heading into a weekend. Now all eyes are looking towards the opec Conference Call on monday. Certainly there a l