Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve
That converted the selloff into a rally. Then came news that European Manufacturing is recovering rapidly from the virus lockdown. That helped the market. Look at it go. The dow is going to be up close to 300 points at the open. The s p, 31. The nasdaq, very solid gain, 70 points. Now, heres another reason for the rally. Big tech, it continues its run. You are looking at premarket prices for apple, microsoft, facebook and netflix, amongst others, all four hit record highs monday. The big tech surge dominates the market. Big tech is pushing higher. Investors this morning ignoring scenes like this. Chaos in d. C. Last night. Right outside the white house, demonstrators vandalized a church, they tried to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson and they also tried to establish their own seattlelike autonomous zone. This is happening in our Nations Capital right in the center of government. The president s had something to say about this. He obviously doesnt like it. But no word yet from joe
Apple have shut a number of Stores Across the country. Microsoft shutting all of its Retail Stores today. Joining us break it down is Abigail Doolittle who has been following all of the action by a rough day for stocks. This virus is really starting to weigh on investors. What do you see . Abigail stocks are lower in the selling pressure never relented. We have stocks responding to data as it comes out with the big drop on the data from the u. S. The nasdaq and s p down. Confirming the risk off, the fact that haven bonds rallied once again. We will bring welcome to the picture. Investors want out of risk. This week, they are not tiptoeing, they are running out of these risk assets on fears , perhapsaps the virus this is the first wave. That it could hurt the u. S. Economy. Emily you have been talking about havens rising as stocks have been down. What would you point out . Abigail it feels as though this week is new in terms of this risk off. And wednesday, we had a big down day and a b
Well look at other names that could surge as well. Its tilman tuesday. He says todays record retail sales are good news but he warns were out of the woods just yet. Kelly, to you. Its the Third Straight day of gains for the major averages. Bob has more on these markets for us more positives than negatives on the reopening story talking about bajs are up today. Industrials are doing well you want to know how tough it is to call the industrial space back look at boeing. 150 to 230 to 198. Thats all in two weeks. 150 to 231 the max is trying to get recertified. The analyst estimates are too high every one is still playing the airline come back story. Thats boeing. Chips, interesting story Morgan Stanley downgrading nvidia it means kla corp. , lam research, corvo and qualcomm, new high for them. You see, more positives than negatives today. The reopening story, retail sales very much a positive beijing closing schools is a negative on the reopening story. Reopening stimulus and treatment.
Are changing and growing need to consumption is harmful to the environment and the climate and some say in future we may well be eating meat that is neat free its crunch time for the Food Industry welcome to mate now a number of startups world wide have caught the eye of investors with their plans to feed the planet instead of neat from the farm theyre growing it in laps or designing substitutes the pretty secretive about it all because they hope that their innovative Food Products could soon be worth billions my colleague ben for sudan managed to get this exclusive look at the start ups attempts in spain. Ringback feeding the world is on everyones lips Scientists Say the planets doomed if we keep eating meat. A viable alternative could transform the way we use our resources. Industry is closely watching to see who will solve this 1000000000 euro question. The high stakes mean secrecy at the startups developing a substitute many wouldnt let us film but the founder of nova meets in barc