California joins texas reaching one million infections. Picking a statement, President Trump bands investments and firms controlled by chinas military as u. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in american history. Welcome to the program, happy friday morning. Under one hour until the start of the cash equity trading session in europe. We have a mixed picture in futures. European futures looked negative. Yesterday u. S. And european stocks dropped around concern to the extent we may see new lockdown measures in the United States. We have a futures picture where europe is weaker, wanting to play catchup with latterday losses in the United States. U. S. Futures. 2 the upside. U. S. Futures point two the upside. Nasdaq futures are treated like havens during the coronavirus. Lets look where we are across the broader assets, weakness in china. President trump in the last few months of his presidency, focusing on the things he can still act on. China mobile and telecom fall
Washington has been demanding business transparency and threatens to delist mainland companies. Protests against Police Shootings spread to the nba. Playoff games are canceled as refused toee bucks leader court. Haidi we continue to have that lackrnaut rage despite a of very meaningful headline developments on the positive side. We are getting incremental positivity when it comes to u. S. China trade as well as daily developments on the search for a Coronavirus Vaccine as well. We are seeing futures flat at the moment, lower by. 1 after both the s p and the nasdaq hitting another alltime high. Optimism being seen in the fourth straight day of record highs for u. S. Stocks. The nikkei 225 just erasing some of the earlier moves, flat at the moment when it comes to futures trading in chicago. We wait to hear from president abes press conference tomorrow. The focus being on his health and the future of auburn onyx and where dollaryen goes from here. It is holding at 105. 91 at the moment.
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs
Tested. This is promising news. The production says it proves that the production does not prove that it is effective but it is certainly a step forward. The final stage of the trial is scheduled to start july 27. This data coming out in the new england journal of medicine. It appears that moderna in the lead with its vaccine candidate, producing antibodies in all 45 of the patients tested. I mentioned we are standing by for President Trump. The press conference scheduled to start any moment now. We are told that the South China Sea and ongoing relations with china will be the focus along with potentially rising cases of covid19 across the country. Meantime, taking a look at how this impacted the markets. Volatility again the word of the day. I want to bring in abigail doolittle, who has been following all of this. Abigail volatility is certainly the word of the day and really the word of the last month. The s p 500 yesterday unable to take out its high after the februarymarch crash. S
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