Washington many. But it is stronger than expected much more on china coming up in a few minutes. European equities, again, sliding in the last few hours. Germany basically flat were taking that to 3 decimal points here. France, uk, spain slightly negative, italy essentially flat as well. Finally treasury yields, the tenyear hovering right around 1. 7 1. 69 is where we have it right now. So certainly something that investors are watching. Yeah. You have yields slipping again a little bit this morning, but were off the lows of last week, which briefly dipped below 1. 6 on the tenyear. Thats encouraging yields had such a big effect on equities as we all know. I think on europe the interesting thing to note this morning is that were not seeing a gap up again in terms of the spread of italian over german yields and talk about the potential new election coming up hong kong, is down 9. 5 , shanghai down 5. 5 it is weighing more on the shanghai market. We saw that elevation escalation of conce
Is there more pain to come or a real bottom anywhere in sight . Trade tensions still in focus as the Chinese Central Bank does something it has not done in more than ten years. Well tell you what that is on this thursday, augustth as Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan you are watching Worldwide Exchange. Thanks for joining us. These crazy, volatile markets have shown no signs of slowing down yesterday at this hour we were calm then stocks began to sink when trading began. The dow continued to fall, at one point off 550 points but then the buyers, they came in in the afternoon. The dow ended the day dow 22 points, posting one of its greatest point turnarounds of all time what will happen today lets look here is how your money and investments look futures are mildly higher. Dow futures up 21 points but this time yesterday futures were basically flat. All of a sudden
Green arrows across the board in europe the dax is up by 0. 3 . The cac adding 1 . The focus again today, because yesterday it was the fuel for that whipsaw action, treasury yields, 1. 727, much firmer than what we saw yesterday. We saw a low of 1. 595 we had record lows across the yield curve. Thats worth noting. A lot of strategists saying we could test 1. 35. Beijings central bank setting the official reference rate for theyuan to the weakes level in a decade. Eunice yoon has more on the midpoint number that traders are watching they do it now at 9 00 p. M have to watch all the time eunice its worth it its worth it to stay up that late the central bank set the midpoint fix weaker than 7, but it was actually stronger than what a lot of analysts were expecting. So because of that traders were taking that as yet another sign that the government here wants to pull the reins back on the chinese currency there was no official commentary today on the fix it was interesting to see what came
Of one of the worlds biggest banks leaving after less than two years on the job it is a busy monday, august 5th, 2019 Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning good afternoon good evening welcome from wherever you are watching i am brian sullivan. We have breaking news with regard to chinas currency it is sinking in a big way the chinese yuan traded offshore is now sliding below 7 to the u. S. Dollar. That is a threshold thats not been breached in more than a decade tough go to 2008 and the financial crisis now, as that currency falls, remember, what does it do . It makes chinese exports less expensi expensive, which some say could mitigate any positive impact from the u. S. Tariffs. Analysts are quick to note, china could retaliate more against President Trumps tariffs by further devaluing the currency you can see where it is 7. 08 this is a fouryear chart. Remember, it is inverted as that goes up, thats the dollar against chinas currency. Thats a weakening of china. Look at t
We should also note that yield curves around the world are feeling the pressure as well we did have on friday the german bund, the 10year, falling to its lowest level ever. As for the asian markets, the nikkei down by 1. 75 hang seng also pressured by what is going on in hong kong in terms of the protests there, down 3 . Shaun hi shanghai down 1. 6 in europe, red arrows across the board. Dax is down 1. 35 . Ftse down, as well we have a stronger dollar against the major currencies weaker crude, wti down 0. 7 . Brent down 0. 75 . Couple safe haven trades working this morning, gold prices are up. They actually have been on a great run. They were under 1300 about two months ago you see them up only slightly, little less than 1 , probably because they had been so strong lately not a lot of oomph year. Bitcoin also getting a little bit of a boost right here. Obviously, a lot of capital and motion across borders. That could help the sentiment toward bitcoin you see it up 7 at 11,750 lets talk