Infections heading towards 16 million. Hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Has extended the Wage Subsidy Program beyond september to protect the economy from fallout from coronavirus. Shery a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off unchanged. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rally amid encouraging vaccine news, this time from the university of oxford and astrazeneca. The s p 500 finished at the highest since february, turning positive for the year. Tech and discretionary stocks outperforming. The vaccine optimism sort of faded. We have a very Competitive Landscape that failed to impress. Risk was revived in the afternoon session following improved u. S. Infection numbers. California and arizona reporting a slow down infections. We still have that stayathome defense rate being back with strength. The underperformance from the russell 2000 very pronounced, while the nasdaq also finished at another record high. Take a look at what
Infection rates low in tokyo but hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Jack ma looks to make more headlines. He is aiming for a 200 billion valuation with between listings in hong kong and shanghai. Look at how take a we are setting up when it comes to the asian open. We have a lot of positivity carrying on from that session. Investors are backing that buy the dip trend. The nasdaq hitting the alltime high. The s p hitting positive for the year. S p active futures contracts a little bit lower at the moment but it seems like the positive. Evelopment on vaccines trading sideways if you will. The dollar was broadly weaker in g10 except for the yen. We had Dollar Strength and yen weakness overnight. That is the handle we are looking at ahead of Inflation Numbers out of japan and getting machine tool numbers as well as some Retail Sentiment numbers by way of Department Store sales. Crude and gold were both a little bit lower in the asian start to the session. Some positive de
Negotiator says talks have gone well and they are on course for a partial deal. The 20th weekend of protests in hong kong, targeting chinese owned his misses. Chinese owned businesses. Imfleen coming up, the reading in washington including conversations with John Freudenberg and others. U. S. Stocksow ended, look at the big picture, ongoing trade war worries. Lower across the board. One big name which was responsible was netflix, closing down across 6 . Forecasters of cyber growth falling short. It hit the nasdaq 0. 8 lower. Johnson johnson recalled baby powder that came up with traces of asbestos. Boeing, questions by the faa about what they knew before the max was reported. 4 . Dow is down, s p down there was good news. Jpmorgan numbers better than forecasted. Cocacola was very solid. For the week and the second week, the stocks closed higher on average. Positivity out of the negativity. What are you looking at . Sophie asian stocks going for a mixed start after a weekend of imf meet
Page. Boris johnson will suspend parliament next month to limit debate on a no deal divorce. Joining chinas internet leaders to discuss the future of Artificial Intelligence. This trip threatens to annoy President Trump. Marketset a check of and how they closed at the end of the u. S. Session. The dow adding 258. 12 s p 500 was down. 7 . Everyone was in the green except for utilities. Energy shares beating utilities. The u. S. For more than expected. The volatility was low. Not volatility, but volume. Trading was around 15 below average. And lets look at how we are setting up in asia. Nexta we are set for a open in asia. We are waiting for the latest on the trade headlines as investors are held captive. But we did get positive news that chinese negotiators are talks. D to come for it looks like nikkei futures will open a bit lower, down about. 1 right now. That is going to be reversing the gains of two Straight Days. Futures like half the have little change and we saw it open up around
Lost. Asian markets and investors dial back. But the bank of france governor hints that the ecb could act in its next meeting. We speak about Monetary Policy, we have several governing to come in the next month. And if and when needed, there must be no doubt about our determination to act and our capacity to act. New party wins a resounding victory as Prime Minister tells cnbc hes ready to deliver change. I feel if i have a strong mandate to deliver on my agenda, which is an agenda to grow the economy, to create more jobs but also to make sure that the greek people feel safe again. Hard to swallow. Shares sink after the French Food Company warns sales growth will slow in the Fourth Quarter as the caterer braces for the loss of several north american contracts. Well, good morning, everybody. Our top story today Deutsche Bank shares are trading higher after the german lender announced an overall which describes as, quote, the most fundamental transformation in decades. They will create a