But says ridehailing bookings fell for the First Time Ever last quarter. Shares rise on signs that it is emerging from the virus slowdown. Take a look at how we are setting up when it comes to the final trading session of the week in asia. U. S. Futures flat after we saw gains on wall street. Despite those historically high unemployment and jobless levels that we are still seeing in the u. S. , there is some sort of consensus among Market Participants that the worst may the over but we are looking ahead to the optimism of the economy reopening. We are also seeing optimism when it comes to new zealand, this despite the budget deficit numbers that were released earlier from the treasury report. New zealand just emerging from that stated four lockdown with the economy stage four lockdown. Also outlining steps for a gradual return to more normal economic functioning. New zealand on track for an entire week of gains. Definitely the outperform in the region. Ofcould get maybe a gain. 25 . We
Joe, the big story is oil prices once again im ready to move out past june move out where . June is too close if we are not going to open anything up, no reason to think it will be anything different than minus 38 a barrel it is related to the price of gold and the price of a suit, so i should have been buying andrew, you are spending 10 times what you are on a suit with those hugo boss things. Which none of them have belt loops for 4,000, you could get a couple of belt loops no hugo boss. It is ralph. Ralph who oil prices, it is not funny. This is out of the realm of anything weve ever seen brent crude only a 20year low you look at wti or what may was before the contract rolls. It is incredible supply shortage spiked overseas. The u. S. Movement, wtis june contract the price giving up earlier gains. Up 11 see, im ready to move to september. August at some point what does this mean for the saudis youve had your picture taken there on a sand dune youve got a feel. They should have done
How will africa deal with coronavirus the pandemic is slowly reaching the confidence vote for Public Health infrastructure and an inability to enforce law whats the impact going to be this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter know its taken the coronavirus longer to reach africa than other parts of the world but experts are warning of a possible large scale outbreak on the worlds poorest continent of 1200000000 people and if europe or the u. S. Were struggling to contain the pandemic the potential consequences across that continent are possibly devastating if not catastrophic one example mali has 56 ventilators for a population of 17000000 africa is still reporting low numbers of cases compared to europe and china but that could change and change fast coronaviruses reached almost every nation on the continent and as you see there the infection rate and the death rate well they are both increasing for most of the african countries the question now is not how and wh
Points, s p is now down 17, nasdaq is down by 18. A couple things going on. First and foremost, last day of the quarter. Just to give you a sense of whats going on with the markets, obviously the s p for the quarter down about 19 . Thats as we were going into today. The dow down about 22 as we were going into today. Now, if the dow closes at about 22 lower for the quarter, this is the whole First Quarter of the year, we havent seen that kind of low for the dow since 1987. The s p 500, again, down 19 and that would have been a level we had seen back in 2008. Theres a lot of things going on right now. Obviously we are looking at potentially an economic contraction, if you will. But some of you are saying this might not necessarily be permanent but its something certainly to watch. We are going to get the adp number tomorrow at 8 15 a. M. Eastern time. Lot of layoffs going on. Obviously we are going to keep pounding on investor psyche with all the industries furloughing workers during the
An aussie market, had a lot of conviction yesterday. It look at some of the other and allrtainly sterling this, perhaps some doubts about brexit again, if there will be a hard brexit. There are reports Boris Johnson is planning to legally block the brexit transition from extending past january 2020. Have at the moment unnamed sources, but theres always the risk of these losses being clawed back later in the day. , they havego, yields gone up to 1. 88, we were just that one point 87. The hong kong dollar is something david will tell us about in just a little bit. We dont often see that, do we . It is the fed, but it does not mean you cannot make money. We are on the longest rally in five years. Trade. Ly incentivizing the head of asiapacific microstrategy at state street markets, great to see you. We are climbing over walls of worry. What is the other wall ahead of us . We have a few. As we come into the latter part year, iear into next actually see we are in for another strong period,