On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp
Global virus infections tops 2. 5 million with more than 175,000 deaths. U. S. Cases climbed 5 . Their biggest increase since april 10. Its get you started when it comes to the state of trading in asia. We are setting up for this wednesdays session. Sophie kamaruddin in hong kong for us. Sophie we are seeing mckay futures edge slightly higher with s p eminis expecting more eruptions in the region after asia was led lower by india on tuesday. Earnings adding to that drag. The yen just Holding Steady in the face of a stronger dollar, which is trading at a twoweek high and gold just resuming gains with spot prices up 11 this year and bank of america is bullish on bullion, raising its cold 18 month target to 3000 an ounce. Moving onto oil now, wti for june back above 13 a barrel after slipping below 10 in the new york session, which was pricing weakness in the front month contract. They are allowing for negative options to be lifted from april 22. We are seeing the Oil Forward Curve shifti
It is thursday, april 8, 2020. You are watching cnbc. Good morning, we begin this morning as we have for weeks, breaking news and a futures market searching for some direction. This now, can you see the dow jones down by 70 points, the s p around 10 points and nasdaq around 27 points relatively stable. Indicating the volatility weve seen as of late can continue after equities staged a major come back most of the day yesterday before wiping out a more than 900point gain to end the session slightly lower check out the bond market to the down side implying people are buying up some safety on that debt twoyear note yields below ba. 2 or. 72 . Thats the bond picture. Oil prices bouncing back on renewed hopes of a coordinated output crude oil prices wti benchmark prices 3. 5 to the upside ice brent crude up half a percent as well. 32 the figure there the last trade. Wti made a sharp move around 9. 5 investors worried any move will not outweigh the global overproduction going to matt taylor i
Space. Oil getting a bit of a reprieve. The concern is you have even more oil flow if the opec deal comes to an end. We want to get you todays market moving news from new york as well as washington. We want to start with the latest pmi data. Factories around the world suffering one of their grimmest months on record in march. Fbloombergs Michael Mckee joins me for more. Theres a lot to dig into. Give me some of your takeaways here. Michael mr. Rogers word of the day is contraction. Across the developed world, they are pretty bleak at this point. Some of them not as bad as thought because of a quirk in the data, but lets go through the data right now. Anybodye hardest hit of i the virus, and now the hardest hit in terms of the pmi number. Eurozoneance, germany, u. K. Are also in the 40s, which marks contraction. New orders of production crashed, but there is a quirk in the data where supplier delivery times are linked. However, in this case, there are no supplies to deliver, so it makes
S p is down 76. We are watching all of these markets. A few things are going on right now. Investors werent impressed by the feds vow to buy an unlimited amount of Government Debt and give loans to businesses, big and small. Theres one industry that Coronavirus Crisis is impacting directly, restaurants. They are closing their doors to patrons, trying to shift to takeout only. We s ghave got the owner of a gp of restaurants who will tell us, he will say this, the restaurant recession has already started, already in effect. We know folks are out of work but how bad is it . We will find out. Theres also sharks in the water, there always are. Investors are not just looking for an edge in the selloff but advising businesses in how to survive the crisis. Weve got one of the best in this. Hes an investor, an entrepreneur, founder of fubu and the star of shark tank, daymond john will join us to give us his perspective in all of this and oh, yeah, we are going to check in on liz claman as she b