Classes. Pricee the new york crude under pressure. We have this key meeting taking place of opec plus today and tomorrow. The gold price at the moment is showing weakness. Buy yourself finance. Bitcoin is erasing some of the 9 . Es by going up nearly lets look at the other first word news headlines. Lets join karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned readingna the latest on chinas economy shows recovery is getting momentum. Manufacturing and services, pmi data both beat estimations. In aty performance came 52. 1. The economy is gaining strength despite sporadic epics of covid19. Bloomberg has learned chinese regulatory officials have said that the chances of jack mas stockoup revising its are looking slim. They are still reviewing changes needed to appease regulators. An additional delay would be a setback for ma. Has big dollars the fight to overturn his election will not reach the supreme court. He told fox it is hard to send a case there and he probably wont succeed. He rehashed
There we have active futures on the s p up by. 5 . Nasdaq as well. Just seeing what is likely to happen with the start of the indian session and about one hour and 44 minutes. Nifty gaining about. 2 wednesday, looking like we are adding to it. Have some news as well. There were fears among bond traders bond that could have played havoc on the bond markets. That is the yen. We have the pound which has been emerging as a strong currency against its u. S. Counterpart as we get brexit negotiations taking place and certainly it is the way the u. K. And European Union come to an agreement as to what happens after the u. K. Officially leaves the European Union. Seeing some progress with regards to all that. Haslinda lets get the first word headlines for you. President trump signed an executive order to expand u. S. Production of Rare Earth Materials. Amid concerns that Global Leader china they restrict exports. They are used in a vast range of goods. China accounted for 80 of americas imports
R justately ben laidle calls it a q4 melt up to come. Jonathan pointing out that the u. S. Election volatility could fade. The data might continue to improve. The market might grind higher. But the numbers we are seeing from some of the big employers around the world are not pretty. Tom terrible. I am so glad you bring this up. Horrific, but once again, you separate stock market activity from the social cost we are seeing right now. Jonathan 90 minutes away from claims data, lisa. Lisa we will be finding out a backward look at the latest claims. I say backward look even though is a weekly initial claims that i because we will also be getting a backward look at the income people received in the month of august. One thing i will be watching is the copious amount of additional fed speak. I want to know how much stress they are seeing within the banking sector. And then the theater in washington, d. C. Continues. Steve mnuchin and nancy pelosi continue to talk. Is this just theater, or is
Bloomberg sheells will not take the path of least resistance. Dampenssystem fault hopes of japan replacing china as asias trading leader. U. S. Futures opening the session pretty flat. We sought u. S. Stocks gaining ground in the regular session, but this after a volatile session. Their hopes for another round of stimulus measures. We have a house voting on the democratic relief package they are tonight. Watch out for that. The s p 500 gaining ground. Most sectors closed higher. The nasdaq gaining more than 1 . We had a mixed sure when it came to the jobless claims. Are on the u. S. Jobs report tomorrow which is the last one before the president ial election. We have the dollar losing ground as we saw demand fading. Look at the bti. Wti. We saw pressure as it will to over a twoweek low. An unexpected return of libyan output that putting pressure on prices. Here is sophie in hong kong. After the volatile session on wall street, we might see a muted day here in asia with india joining th
But the e. U. May challenges deal with china. Up ad Morgan Stanley wraps big earnings week for u. S. Banks , with a beat. We are live from the Morgan Stanley global Alpha Investment conference in hong kong. Us trillion markets just open for trade. Sophie. Sophie asx us trillion marketst open for 600 the top smock the top stock market so far this year. Broadly speaking, asian futures are pointing higher and regional stocks are headed to a seventh weekly gain. We will see if the u. S. Tech rally feeds into asia, given bullish guidance. We did have alphabet joining the 1 trillion market cap club. Fed expected to stand pat on rates. Looking ahead to the chinese gdp report, futures in singapore closing higher after a three day drop was posted and the offshore yuan is headed for an eighth weekly rise. Thea top forecaster says yuan will in the year is one of asias worstperforming currencies. Shery lets go to first word news with jessica summers. Jessica the Senate Begins the formal impeachmen