Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr
By market. Indonesia coming online. You are seeing a marginal gain. Although when it comes to the virus, the deadliest day yet in indonesia. The story is chinese stocks. The csi 300, we are up another 3 , extending the fiveyear highs. All four of the major benchmarks in china in overbought territory. Is it the case of foam a of fomo . The topix up by 1 . We expect the earnings season to kick off with consumer stocks. The market has underperformed as of late. We are also watching currencies. We mentioned the dollar, posting the drop. Across asia fx, a strong renminbi. Risk on move today. Brent crude, hovering around the 43 mark here. Commodities gaining ground in the second half. Copper futures slightly lower today, but up last week for the seventh straight week. Lets get context with our reporter. There seems to be a very clear upward trend when it comes to virus infections in the u. S. Several other economies have reopened. How do you see that affecting markets right now . Reporter ri
Tread the virus spread between people to the highest level. To the lowest level. Abigail very risk on. The bulls rushing back in. S p 500 up for a fifth day in a row. Longest winning streak of 2020. This is the first time we have had a fiveday string of gains. That tells you the degree and strength. Individual stocks having positive news. The nasdaq had a new alltime high. The stock, the chips index, same thing. Faang index driven by the likes of amazon and tesla. The fangs, those are the stayathome stocks. You were mentioning the virus data still being pretty bad. Realworld. Een the last couple of days, it has been a global rally with asian and european stocks. The new york faang adex really doing its best on yeartodate basis. Then it is the chinese tech stocks, the cqqs. Up 22 . S s p 500 and European Tech etfs up just about 6 . That has to do with those European Technology indexes. Nokia, somerickson, of these other companies. Tech, one of this years star winners right around the wo
Cases continue to surge at home and abroad. The World Health Organization reporting a new record high for u. S. Oneday infections. This person has been in the job for three different governments. Taking a look at how the markets are faring, u. S. Futures trading mixed. Lower onr we saw friday at the end of a risk on week for u. S. Equities that saw big gains across the board with the nasdaq closing at a record high. It was the first down week in four for the u. S. Dollar going into the july 4 weekend. Longesta stop to the winning streak since january for the greenback. Funding rates continue to decline with dollar libor falling to a low on friday. And the best week for the bloomberg gauge since 2016 with copper notching a second weekly 1800. D gold closer to spreadseeing contango widening. Wti is off, and Brent Holding above 32. 84. Haidi take a look at how things are shaping up early in the monday morning session. Seeing new zealand up. 2 . Chicago nikkei futures pointing to a mixed t
Cases continue to surge at home and abroad. The World Health Organization reports a oneday high for global infection. Japan plans to pitch for ancial workers under g workers uneasy about their future. Lets take a look about a look at how markets are setting up. Asian risk assets likely to see a selfstarter this monday as a sections are weighed up against improving Economic Data. We have a calendar today with hong kong pmi and indonesian Consumer Confidence on cap. Kiwi stocks, little change. Fluctuating. P moving to a 10th of 1 . Haidi to our top global stories, one that is going to preoccupy markets in the second half. Local coronavirus cases topping 11. 3 million. The World Health Organization reports a single day record in new infections globally. Cases any the u. K. , south africa, japan and the philippines continue to rise. The u. S. All the daily infection rates low. Calling for more restrictions to curb the outbreak. In australia, nine Public Housing tower blocks with 3000 peopl