The rba signaled for their willingness to ease. And the other big story at this hour lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. An antitrust investigation says they are abusing their dominant status. Check lets get a quick of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures down at the open, extending gains after we saw the regular session seeing a bearish reversal at your after trumps of fire called off negotiations. Already, market have been trading mixed and about flat after the fed chairs cautious tone on the economy, warning that too much support was better than not enough. The s p 500 saw the largest drop in two weeks and fell to session lows after the president ended stimulus talks. The losses were led by discretionary talks. Airlines also tumbled and we saw the nasdaq losing 1. 6 . After the close, we saw that House Democrats released antitrust reforms to curb the power of u. S. Tech giants including amazon and alphabet. We will be watching that space very closely. Doin
The great is slowing rate is slowing in the u. S. The virus is not helping australia and if barley has become a new flashpoint. Shery lets see how asia is shaping up. Sophie after a choppy week for asian stocks with the msci aipac index snapping a twoweek advance, futures are mixed but mostly lower going into chinas npc. Japan as well as thailand are going to publish First Quarter gdp numbers. Japan may have fallen into a recession through the yen trading steady ahead of the Asset Managers steady. The Asset Managers have boosted it five straight weeks. We will get policy decisions from thailand and indonesia when bets are raising that major Central Banks could be forced to embrace a good of rates. Theble under pressure after chief economist of the option of subzero rates was being considered among other unconventional policy tools for lets look at oil policy tools. Lets look at oil. Seeing brent gaining ground and of uti adding 2 after wti adding 2 ahead of the june contract expiring o