As to the longer rates narrative. Pets on a november fed hike rising to about 60 . Apple sliding the most in a month under reports of some government chinese agencies banning the use of iphones. We get japans travel outlook exclusively from the ana ceo who tells us that demand from china is soaring. If you look at u. S. Futures, it looks to be shaping up in a fourthdown day. The asia session could change that. We are early in the session. They are pointing lower. I just want to give that warning right now. It looks like we might see little bit more weight to bonds. Yields higher once again today after all of that data. Service is showing a lot of strength but also strengthen prices paid, which is perhaps the most troubling aspect of this whole thing. That adds to inflation. With oil prices assize they are at the moment, thats another troubling factor for those worried about inflation. Those include some fed Board Members and some fed president s including Susan Collins and jim bullard.
Across the markets. Driving the stimulus, miss confidence. The effect we had, what it did do, nasdaq is up. We continue to see property stocks. Hong kong markets are the first. Theyre cutting down down payments, mortgage rates. Country garden is lifting property, most sectors are in the green. U. S. Markets are closed so we will not see too much in terms of treasuries. The jobs report was talking about moderation. Certainly you are seeing hong kong lead the charge as well as the csi 300. We broke out of declines after the best week we saw since july. We saw seven weeks of gains for the index. In your which is quite rare. We just mentioned. 5. 3 up for the property gauge. Just to reeducate on the welcome stimulus playing out. Lets have a look. We have some important trade data with how the Chinese Markets are doing a deep dive and michelle is taking his place as the last meeting of governor. Rate decisions as well. We will see. It will be interesting to see that the timing cycle may be
Wrapping up april with a month of losses potentially on the screen. Down more than 2 on the s p for april. The small caps have been absolutely hammered the end of march, the rotation is coming, a big downdraft for the small caps so far this month, snapping five straight months of gains for equities on the s p 500. Bramo, april has been a bumpy ride. Lisa partly because that is the sound of the narrative breaking or maybe the narrative shifting. He basically said higher inflation is fine for stocks and earnings. If yields stay here it will be ok, everything is fine. Yields are high for the right reasons. Are they . That is the angst you are feeling. Jonathan the bond market, breaking up the 10 year. The twoyear, high by 35 basis points. The 10 year up by more than 40. I remember a few conversations we had this month. Just a few. Steve said that this Federal Reserve wants to count Interest Rates. He said that this data is not cooperating. The data this month has not cooperated. Annmarie
We are without the United States. President s day in the u. S. That means a lot of participants stateside but we also see reduced trading over the Asian Session as well. We saw the asian equities session with the nikkei moving higher, 1. 8 . A little higher a little harder to make any headway. More will get to more that. Our focus on what we are doing in europe because without the United States and the chinese and hong kong markets are closed. Thats get the first word news update. President trump spent the weekend criticizing everyone but russia for meddling. He tweeted 14 times over 24 hours criticizing the fbi, democrats and special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. They came after his sweeping indictment of 13 russians for allegedly leading social media efforts to attack trump rival, hillary clinton. In florida, students at the high school where 17 people were shot and killed are speaking out or gun control. They plan to organize antigun violence marches for next month. In the
Have a stacked up show for you, were going to talk about the drug sector, i wonder what the ceo of nevadas is going to say about health care in the United States. In fact, it looks as though we are getting some numbers through right now. A fouryear numbers to be broadly in line and confirming the Group Outlook for 2017. They are a Second Quarter core eps, reading estimates, one of the biggest headlines. Broadly in line, that one seems to be. 1. 22, thenumber, estimate was 1. 18. Looks like the core number has beat the estimate. We will speak with the ceo later on during the program. This is the point from the analyst, this would be the trough in terms of some of the challenges they have from the generic competition, but they say year sales are broadly in line. They reconfirmed the core number, about. 2 on earningspershare, the estimate was about 1. 18. Lets talk about a we rating. The aussie dollar at a twoyear high. This is the blue line. The reserve bank of australia is the is using