Worn surging numbers may undermine a Global Recovery. Plus, we discussed prospects for the u. S. And the wider picture with the atlanta fed president , who joins us this hour. Haidi lets look at the sydney staggered open, the friday session muted compared to the street we have had in asian stocks, asiapacific stocks seeing 13 consecutive days of gains broken by the thursday session, the longest winning streak since 1988 coming to an end. A flat stock a flat start in sydney, kiwi stocks up, muted start in japan spite heavy inflows of foreign buying. We are seeing a further downside when it comes to trading in the futures session. Getting secretary mnuchin speaking at the moment. He is speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying financial conditions are quite strong, that companies that are need grants,covid not that. We heard secretary mnuchin earlier asking the fed to return unused coronavirus money. We will get you more as we get those comments. This is coming at a time when
That is the shoes, right . The shoe extension . Francine i dont know if you can hear it, but it is a neighbors. It wont last very long. Hammeringtle bit of there. We welcome all of you here, to the realities of the pandemic. The pandemic is front and center, but there is a lot of other news. I would note pacific rim currencies continue strong. Francine they certainly do, and there is quite a lot going on also in pound talks, so lets not forget brexit and the u. K. E. U. Relationship. Les get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Trump Campaign is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 is withdrawing a key part of its lawsuit against the Election Results in pennsylvania. It is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 mailin ballots be thrown out because observers were kept too far away from the count. The challenge is now against a far smaller number of ballots, almost certainly just a fraction of bidens lead in the state. Joe biden is Meeting National security experts, but his
Battery day event. He announced a 25,000 electric car within three years. The u. S. And china clash again. This time, at the virtual u. N. President trump slammed beijing for the coronavirus. Xi jinping warns no one should profit from the problems of another. Haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up for the start of trading proper here in asia. We had a reasonable session in the u. S. , that tech rebound continuing to keep things afloat. This as we continue to get a little bit more news flow as to the stopgap measure being reached between the democrats and the gop. U. S. Stocks in the overnight session climbing. Tempering some of these concerns that came through from jay powell, pointing to slow economic recovery as well as Charlie Hedman saying the recession could worsen without more fiscal support. We see the nikkei 225 flat at the moment. We saw that japan markets have been closed. Futures have been dropping. We have seen during that time asia extra pen falling 2 asia x japan
No welcome to todays program u. S. China and pandemic in 1951 classic the day vrap stood still we were visited by an alien spacecraft in human form with a very sobering message. The movie concludes with World Leaders pondering their choice. It would be wonderful to believe whether in the form of a Global Pandemic or threat from outer space of the world would end differently but by the looks of things the rivalries and disputes will only grow certainly magnified in the time of the pandemic and they are likely to continue accelerating preexisting patterns and competition. Nowhere are those tensions more evident than u. S. Tensions with the rise in russia and a decline in china exerting themselves regionally and globally. It may well be that these three powers will be working by the current pandemic and to paraphrase Alexander Bonn off could it be an opportunity for growth in the sense of all the ability by three leaders focused on their own internal politics make us more not less eager t
Florida sees its biggest oneday rise, some of hollywoods biggest names test positive. And chinasotest crackdown in hong kong seem to have spurred a reaction at the ballot box, voters have turned out in the hundreds of thousands. Lets look at how the week is setting up in asia. A pretty positive lead, asian stocks will keep the rally going. About half a percent after the u. S. Stock rally extended that weekly gain on friday. The s p 500 outperforming the nasdaq for the first time in two weeks. That bifurcation will continue. Nikkei futures up 0. 3 . Trading in chicago after a three i Third Straight weekly decline, continued concerns about another wave of virus cases in tokyo and elsewhere in japan. 1 ney futures setting up for 1. 6 higher. New zealand, blue signals when it comes to trading kiwi stocks after that threeday selloff, up 0. 7 . The level of Foreign Investors piling into the kiwi market suggests we will see further outside with that golden cross, crossing the 200 day dma patt