There is a tumble on the growing u. S. Industries. Decade, asore than a the pandemic rages on. It is also slashing its final dividends. Big tech is a warned that it may lose Legal Protection over user content. Lawmakers are accusing tech shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are saying u. S. Futures, online higher at the moment. This is after u. S. Stocks tumbled by the most since june. Check is leading all of the sectors. Tech is not really acting like a haven today. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Heres Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie after that steep drop that we saw for u. S. And european shares, expect losses to continue. In asia. It is the busiest day of earnings for china. In australia, we have all of these futures falling to the lowest since october 5. This is after a report of a 40 a 42 slump in profit. S may be facing a tumble. Bullion fell. Is picking up steam. We may see some slight tweaks to its quarterly forecast
U. S. One report says the case has already been pulled. Jack ma seeking more than 17 billion in hong kong as a dual listing. It says it does not need cornerstone investors. We have the latest on this blockbuster sale. Shery he was futures coming online flat after u. S. Stocks fell to an eight week low in the regular session. Warnings from various fed officials of the need for more fiscal stimulus. We saw the selloff continuing. Volume below the average over the past 30 days. 11 sectors on the s p 500, all of them lower by more than 1 . Energy the worst performer as we continue to see Dollar Strength rising against every g10 peer to a seven week high. Oil is extending its losses. We saw some gains earlier in the new york session stop bullish york session. Gains limited by fed speak over the economic recovery. Haidi lets look at how the Asian Session is shaping up. Taking a look at new zealand stocks, we continue to process the rbnz rate decision. A steady beat of the drum roll toward po
Critics say he failed to deliver on most of his promises. One of chinas biggest conglomerate says it is optimistic despite divisions with the u. S. From the boss involved. Shery we are getting Industrial Production numbers from the month of july in south korea falling. Missing estimates it would only fall by around 2 . We also have the month on month numbers. A gain of 1. 6 . That is missing estimates it would rise more than 2 . This is also a deceleration in gains when it comes to those numbers from the previous month. We do have the outbreak in south korea worsening. Virus pandemice within south korea and overseas. The numbers are not that surprising. Improvingn numbers and the slump easing for the past three months. When it came to the numbers in august, we saw the number starting to deteriorate. We are seeing those Industrial Production numbers missing estimates. Contracting 2. 5 year on year. We do get tomorrow, south koreas Second Quarter final gdp numbers. We will be watching th
Delays. Pres. Trump know, we did not do that at all. I want the post office to run properly. They are going to need more money if they are going to take intensive billets of ellis tens of millions of ballots out of nowhere. It is a part of the bill that the democrats dont want to make, because they want a trillion dollars to go to states that are run by governors who happen to be democrats, who have not done a good job for many years. Those are states that oa lot of money and need a lot of money, and they are talking about 1 trillion. The post office and the 3. 5 billion for the boats themselves. The votes themselves. Think about that, 3. 5 billion for mailin ballots. Shery President Trump right now giving a press conference at the white house. He is addressing questions about usps funding. Together thoseut two issues of mailin ballots and giving that funding for the u. S. Postal services. A proposed 25 billion financial lifeline. But china, saying the u. S. Would call with china about
Was 25 n the s p 500 better than average over the last month. We are waiting on the let us check of japan, as the pandemic puts more pressure on the economy already sliding into recession. Inflation numbers are due at this hour. Haidi lets check in on the markets. We had a pretty tepid handover from the u. S. Stocks edging higher. Volumes still below what we have seen over the past month or so. Very much a rangebound trading session. We continue to seek a new catalyst. We continue to see rising cases across the u. S. , driving the idea of a second wave. Beijing struggling with a second wave as well. Conflicting data not giving a great deal of intel as to what the future holds. We are dealing and upside on s p futures, up about. 3 . Nikkei futures also a little bit higher, japan weighing the frostburg of reopening. Also the potential demise when it comes to tourism. Sydney futures are a little bit to the downside at the moment. We could see a modest bounce at the start of trading here i