An estimate of expansion. About 1. 3 . Switching out the boards and having a look at the other asset classes, which are in the mix at the moment. The u. S. Election, according to a survey, sending the dollar in opposite pumps. If donald trump wins, we could see a stronger dollar. If joe biden wins, the reverse. Also wests going on with the also was going on with the yen. Against the backdrop of a slightly better industrial read out of japan. Opposed to. 8 . Al, despite coming back, has 36 a barrel handle. Oil is set for its worst month since march. It is down to coronavirus demand fears hitting things. Bring livee want to pictures from vietnam, where mike pompeo is meeting with the vietnamese deputy Prime Minister hanoi. Counterpart in this is part of his tour in asia. Some have called it an empty china tour of asia. Thats happening right now. Both are expected to exchange ideas. Up relations with the two countries. Vietnam had been boosting its import of u. S. Products. Mike pompeo wr
Have been a major swing. Check out what Lloyd Blankfein tweeted. Hospitals are not overwhelmed. Most will be exposed anyway since we cant sequester until there is a vax is a Public Health benefit from broad lockdowns worth such extreme damage to livelihoods and what is more important, the potential human lives lost which are, of course, very important or the toll on the economy and possibly irreparable damage to the economy. Tim seymour . Well, look, now, if you think about where lloyd was on april 24th, i follow him on twitter, by the way i doesnt tweet that often and when he does, hes got something to say and a month ago he was saying im not so sure its wise for states to be opening but thats why we have a federal system where states can do what they do and was somewhat critical of georgia. Here he is coming in and talking about a more populous line theres politics attached to this i think theres economics attached and fascinating its whats happening and do think Lloyd Blankfein jump
Google ad demand although previrus quarterly was of. That march was difficult. Started. Ts get you we are seeing u. S. Futures coming online, flat, a bit of Downside Pressure. We have u. S. Stocks in the regular session wally. The Downside Pressure on big tech, really leading the declines. The nasdaq composite reversing two sessions of gains. U. S. Consumer confidence dropped in april to the lowest since 2014. There is a big week of earnings not to mention centralbank decisions ahead of the fomc meeting. We have the dollar falling because it has been weighed down. Rising wti rebounding, in the overnight session, above the 13 a barrel level. It felt in the new york session fell in the new york session. There were some swings in the u. S. Oil fund, saying it will sell out june positions. Haidi our next guest says the next turning seasons will not offer much to investors but they are bullish on u. S. Stocks. Jim macdonald joins us. Great to have you with us. You are more bullish in the u.
15,000. Take a look at the kospi. We are focused on samsung earnings. Samsung warning of a profit slide as this virus squeezes the tech industry. Samsung shares largely after the results came out unchanged. We are watching out for the singapore jobless numbers coming out this hour. 2. 6 , an 11 year high. We see this recovery momentum coming back in offshore chinese stocks. The moving average yesterday when things close, and we are higher here today. Bank of china among them. Dollaryen, a little strength. And some strength for the korean won. Oil remains the story, but take a look at volatility. When it comes to oil contracts, we are leapfrogging of june to july and seeing wild gyrations. We have bounced back after wti auched 10, but we lost quarter of the value when it comes to crude. It looks like volatility will continue. Into julywill roll with the spread of the june and july contracts especially for wti getting rocked by volatility. Tom we will get more on that story in a few minu
A 2nd and a run up the next hour on the way to what his backers are doing well right now while backing down from one of the nations biggest media conglomerates just got bigger were going to break down which company has now swallowed up Spanish Language Network Univision so much to get to on this very busy day so lets get started and we begin where else but with the very latest on the coronavirus as that surge of new cases is rising outside of china were also seeing markets react very strongly kristie is the latest on that coming up in just a 2nd but right now lets take a look at the boom of new cases in south korea as well as iran lets start in south korea where virtually all of the new cases are connected to a mega church about 200000 people in fact about 60 percent of all south koreas cases of the coronavirus or link to the church of jesus where it apparently a 61 year old woman began transmitting the virus its not clear how she became infected. Well now south korean officials have a