Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t
Waiting new tariffs on 3 billion of experts waiting germany, france. The nasdaq is falling. Abigail doolittle has been watching this. Why the sudden drop . Up. Ail reality is catching its has been disbelief for many market watchers as stocks have climbed. The nasdaq just yesterday at an alltime high even as we have had disappointing economic data. And more recently news around the virus hotspots in the u. S. Today the information coming out hitting stocks. The s p 500, the nasdaq down. It is a continuation of the big selloff we had two weeks ago. Volatility showing up in other asset classes. Bonds themselves rallying. It was a true risk off day. Virus fears weighing on stocks but another factor, the nasdaq 100, i was talking about an alltime high, it is amazing how far it has gone, climbing the wall of worry, now a bit of a pause if the bulls are lucky or if it is a steep uptrend, you could keep it parabolic. For physics that cannot hold. You could see potentially a bad decline. Hopefu
More than 2 on the stoxx 600 great s p futures point to another day of decline in the u. S. On track for six days of declines and heading for lowest close since october and global stocks for the 10 year yield hitting a fresh record low. Yields are dropping across the u. S. Curve. The two year yield sitting around 112. To the euro missed the risk off memo . Three out of the past four days. 10947. It could be down to the broad dollar weakness. The yen has been big today along with gold. Saying we could get 1800 on gold. Wti extending its slide beyond a 13 month low. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. We begin with italian Opposition Leader Matteo Salvini who accuses the government of underestimating the threat of coronavirus. He is urging them to earmark at least 10 billion euros for emergency measures. I think it will be the composed of factions the dont like each other. Its already the weakest in terms of growth. After the virus, which will evidently slide us into a recession, a g
Matt u. S. Authorities worn americans to prepare for a can potentially coronavirus outbreak to prepare for a potential coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, rio tintos windfall. They report their highest fouryear profit in eight years on a surge in iron ore prices, but the Company Warns of significant uncertainty if the coronavirus persons. And a South Carolina freeforall. Democratic president ial candidates turn on Bernie Sanders and his rivals came to stall the front runners momentum. Matt, let me pick up with whats going on with breaking news this morning. Weve got a number of corporates reporting. Lets get to the luxury sector with hermes. 10. 7 . S up by the estimate was an increase of 10. 7 . Thats a redhead line across the bloomberg this morning. Still talking about ambition, some commentary coming out of the luxury french business. The ceo is saying it is too soon to know when sales will rebound. There is a potential normalization from coronavirus in china. In china, there has been
Well reveal one of the best investment ideas the smart money is getting into. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome on jon, pete, and carey firestone the ceo of arias Asset Management we focus on the russell 2000, which has come alive, confirming to many that the reportsetting rally has room to go the russell outperforms the major averages for the last three months. Certainly since 2018, theres been a significant underperformance whats interesting about 2019 is both for passive and an active funds, youre seeing outflows in small caps a thats qu50i9 contrary the composition of small caps is the problem, so small caps are carrying in overweight to financials relative to large caps, then caring in underweight to technology and consumer discretionary, relative to large caps so the composition is the problem. I agree with the premise in 2020 it could be critical in driving the overall indices higher, and i think you want to have inclusion of small caps and increase your exposure to it y