Beijing praises the decision while President Trump says he is not a fan. A focusson says now on his cabinet lineup. And plans for structural reform. Are seeing a lot of investors sticking by the sidelines, a quiet session in the u. S. Overnight. Wall street hanging out to see what further guidance we get from the fed after their decision. A great chunk of investors will be waiting for more details as to the revamp inflation target. We are seeing futures trading flat. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rising. The s p seeing a Third Straight session of gains. For a change, we saw gains across tech, outweighing the decline we saw across financials. Treasury yields at the dollar end of the day, where they started. We are seeing the likes of the dollaryen holding steady, this as we look set to see the appointment of yoshida suda as the new japanese Prime Minister. As well as hearing more about whether we will see continuity across his cabinet appointments. We are watching at to see if another
The concern about the stronger currency, not to worry just yet. We saw that euro jump. Ist weakness on brexit sparking a rebound in the dollar. Your offshore renminbi, we are set to break six weeks of gains. 683 right now. That is below 40 right now. We have copper also and gold on the back foot. Oil prices on track for the biggest twoweek drop since what we saw back in april. Lets get to the first word news, we have Karina Mitchell. Senate democrats have shut down a relief plan proposed by republicans. They failed to get the 60 votes they needed. Estimatedican plan is at anywhere between 500 and 700 billion dollars. The democrats are proposing to. 2 trillion. 2. 2 trillion. Boris johnsons government refused to scrap plans to reignite the divorce accord. The eu is threatening legal action if the u. K. Does not drop the legislation within three weeks. Thes president has painted an optimistic picture. Economic data suggests a strong rebound. They kept policy on hold for Economic Contract
Added to studying the feasibility of a megamerger. Of helping understate a pay packet of carlos ghosn. We had a wave of dealmaking creating positive sentiment. We had a rebound from last week, one of the worst weeks for u. S. Stocks since march. Tech stocks taking a breather from the selloff. Asset futures trading modestly. Watchl continue to trading when it comes to japan. Potential takeover for Prime Minister the middle of next week, futures are looking flat after the yen starts to gain in the monday session. We will watch for details about the cabinet and what it means for policy continuity playing in two sentiment for the japanese markets. Dollaryen holding steady. Modest dollar weakness overnight. That is set to continue. At 37. 40. Trading opec joining a chorus of voices suggesting the era of oil demand is deteriorating. Demand forecast for each quarter as we continue to see shortselling in the oil market. To a series ofrn deals we have seen. Oracle is bidding for tiktok u. S. Op
Up 67 from its march low after what was a run the new high. You have sales force, youve got apple, microsoft some of the tech titans all under pressure thank you very much i like the fnew angle on the house. We have the market angles as well rick is looking at the bond market where its rebounding bob, lets start with you. Remember, we could go either way right now. Remember yesterday look at the s p. Around 11 00 we bottomed what we have is a good example of of shooting the last eight trading sessions for tesla, 400 eight days ago it goaes to 500 and back to 400 thats a complete round trip and overshoot on the downside as i mentioned before same thing with nvidia it was 500 five or six trading sessions ago goes to 580 and back down to 500 and below that. You can overshoot on the downside theres the s p there. You tend to overshoot on the downside as for the megacaps, a little perspective of whats going on its true that microsoft was down 7 to 8 this week its up 33 for the year this is
Bloomberg surveillance. Im tom keene in new york. Guy johnson in for Francine Lacqua in london. Monthsin to the summer in august. I look at the newspapers in the United Kingdom and it is sort of a soup of distractions right now. Inme and update on the virus the United Kingdom, because the statistics i look at are actually pretty good. Guy . They are pretty good, tom, and there are large parts of the country where people are talking about the fact that we may have achieved herd immunity. You listen to the commentary come out of a large hospital, out of large hospitals, they are seeing a fraction of the number of cases they saw coming through the door back in the spring. The situation seems to be under control. This is pumping Boris Johnson the prime minister, to make firm assertions that schools will september, in the same way Governor Cuomo is making those assertions in new york. Thathe is pretty lonely on right now. That will be one of our themes without question in august. Back to sc