Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t
Thousand. U. S. Infections rise more than expected. Asia, a second wave is coming. Japans biggest banks are expected to join their global counterparts in bad loan costs. They could see the highest in a decade. Take haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up our final friday session. Positively from wall street after a pretty volatile session. U. S. Stocks faltered early on when President Trump said he was not interested and did not want to speak to xi jinping about the simmering trade tensions. In the beatendown bank stocks as well as energy names gaining on account of this jump we saw in crude prices. We are setting up positivity. Futures, both in australia and hong kong, and also in japan, setting up for a higher open, sophie. Ishie President Trump ratcheting up tensions with china amid the coronavirus and trade war. This is what he said about talks with xi jinping. Pres. Trump i have a very Good Relationship but i just, right now, i do not want to speak to him. There are many t
Traveling again. And the layers of pakistans a rapid transport project has many blaming the Prime Ministers provincial government for corruption. And im peter some of these sports as you heard the 2020 Olympic Games in tokyo or later this news of a look at what it means for the athletes who will now have to wait until 2021. Well we begin this hour with breaking news out of torture the 2020 and then fix have been perspire and the announcement was made just in the past alibi Prime Minister shinzo he says he has asked the i. O. C. For an up to one year postponement of the tokyo island fix and now appears likely that theyll be held in 2021 nowadays are vassal followers weeks of insisting it would go ahead in july as planned its like you know the whole. First of all once again i confirmed with the i. O. C. President back that there will be no cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore as the host of the tokyo lympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the
Decision. Bullard should have called for 75 basis points and he could have the job when powell steps down to spend more time with his calculations. I agree completely with bullard, his dissent on 50. Whats he thinking . Then i read his comments and said thats pretty smart it made total sense to me. On the bullard side, this gives you a sense of why its so reasonable i would be watching very carefully for any signs of a downturn. Of course, there are views on the other side as well, from the other dissenters i think the center of gravity, clearly the center of gravity on the committee is the second adjustment was appropriate. Thats right. Fed president jim bullard joins us here in just a moment josh got a cameo in that little mashup. Lucky you didnt wear the same tie. Some of my best work. Yeah, you have to give me the heads up on that. Building throughout the day, hopes of the trade deal, really good housing data. Yeah. What are you chalking it up to lets do housing first. Xhp, itb, ho
With tim cook. And one company is shrugging off concerns about an economic slowdown in china. Well tell you which one it is. A moment of truth for lyft as insiders get their first chance to sell shares at the open stocks are set to build on fridays rally, were heading into this mornings trading session, the dow is within 394 points of recouping all the losses from that wednesday selloff of 800 points is the economy at risk of recession . Take a listen to what the president and some of his top aides said yesterday i dont think were having a recession. Were doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich i gave a tremendous tax cut. And theyre loaded up with money. And theyre buying i saw the walmart numbers, through the roof. I dont see a recession we had some blockbuster retail sales consumer numbers towards the back end of last week. We had the strongest economy in the world money is coming here for a stock market also coming here to chase yield and our bond market. Vice president tod