There is quite a lot going on. If you look at btps, this is the one thing we need to look at. Stocks, climbing, treasuries, slipping. Retreating. Carmakers leading the gains. Contracts also advancing after the s p 500 index close lower. Lower. Ed towe we speak to the German Economy minister and get his take on the slowing economy. Dont miss that interview at 3 p. M. London time. We are also getting some details from norways Sovereign Wealth Fund about the secondquarter performance. Dani burger has details. Not as bright as we saw last quarter. Fundss sovereign wealth 8 , they hadpoint a gain of about 3 . Comparing that to last quarters return of 9. 1 . I have been digging through some of this report and see exactly what the layout looks like. In terms of how different investments did, Equity Investments returned nearly 70 . Equity, 2. 7 , mirroring what we saw last year. The issue was the global uncertainty we saw. Keep in mind, this was the Second Quarter. This was not even before we
Look at the green arrows back this morning, even though the government could potentially be shut down. S p futures up by 4. 5. The nasdaq up by 19. Well talk more about that potential Government Shutdown in a bit. Overnight in asia, the nikkei higher. Up 0. 2 . Hang seng up by 0. 4. So was the shanghai in china in europe, at least right now green arrows across the board. Biggest gainer of the major averages is the dax, which is up by almost 0. 9 percent. The tenyear yield hitting 2. 64 yesterday. Thats the highest level since september of 2014. Again, concerns about the Government Shutdown really pushing things well see what happens to the tenyear when and if a budget deal is found. Right now it looks like its setting in at 2. 63 . Some big headlines this morning. Ibm returning to Revenue Growth for the first time in five years. Shares are down. Theres weaker than expected guidance overshadowing that news the company beating on the top and bottom lines but took a charge of 5. 5 billion
Brent crude up to 55. 48. Okay. Breaking Global Market news some early news this morning. The Uk Supreme Court ruling against the British Government in a key brexit decision. The vote means the Prime Minister, theresa may, must get parliaments approval in order to trigger brexit. Look at the pound moving on a result of this. Youre seeing it falling there over a half percent this morning. A couple other big stories to tell you about, yahoo reporting better than expected results on the top and bottom line. The company saying the sale of its core Internet Business to verizon should be completed in the Second Quarter which helped ease investor concerns that the deal might collapse. The 4. 8 billion transaction was supposed to close in the First Quarter. We talked about it yesterday along with that news that the government was looking at yahoo and the fact it had not disclosed that breach earlier. Barclays turning cautious on apple. Downgrading the iphonemaker. The analyst is cutting apple
Brent now at the highest levels of the year. Gold, copper, et cetera, and the stocks within that complex have all just ripped. And since february 11th, most shorted stocks in the s p 500 up 20 . This is a massive Short Covering rally. Theres two questions you want to answer for yourself. Is the bottom in . The answer to that right now, only is in will there be an exogenous event that takes you back to the lows. Not an economic event. Recession pulling off the table. Secondarily the question, where do we go from here . Higher. We go higher from here. 37. 50 in oil. Higher from here. Higher in all the names that are tied to the goldilocks formation. Youre shaking your head no. Im on the other side of this. I agree that its a short squeeze going on. But ive got to say that we havent solved any of the fundamental issues in the commodity space, which is simply oversupply. Who cares . Eventually, everybody cares, joe. Nope, wrong. Its about performance, its about Short Covering, the future s
Me as well. Lets have a look at u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Decent day yesterday around about 1 in gains for the main markets sparked by big gains for oil prices. Were looking at gains once again today. Almost triple digit for the dow. 85 points in the green are u. S. Dow futures. The s p called higher by 11 points. The nasdaq by 32 points. Lets have a look at the yield on the ten year. Weve come away from that 1. 7 level we hit last thursday. Were close to 1. 8 . So risk sentiment has just improved over the last week or so. 1. 781 on the u. S. Ten year this morning. Now, Bank Earnings are likely to set the tone for the trading day. Jpmorgan set to post results shortly. The financial giant expected to report earnings of around 1. 26 per share on revenue of 23. 4 billion. This will be the banks first yearoveryear earnings decline in five quarters. Shares of jpmorgan since the start of 2016 up there for you now they are down 10 . Just over 10 . Theyre flat in premarket pretty much