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Worldwide trade has been slashed. Postnba future, we will hear from lebron james. Feeling more risk as we head into the last trading session of the week for asia. Lasttrading flat after the halfhour of frenzied gains, s p 500 up 20 loss in the previous session. Nikkei futures at the moment looking flat. Dollaryen holding at 107. Gainingg dollar index with the exception of the kiwi and aussie dollar. It feels like we will see modest over in spite of concerns increased virus numbers, particularly ...

Global virus infections tops 2. 5 million with more than 175,000 deaths. U. S. Cases climbed 5 . Their biggest increase since april 10. Its get you started when it comes to the state of trading in asia. We are setting up for this wednesdays session. Sophie kamaruddin in hong kong for us. Sophie we are seeing mckay futures edge slightly higher with s p eminis expecting more eruptions in the region after asia was led lower by india on tuesday. Earnings adding to that drag. The yen just Holding Ste...

Few smiles and the magic kingdom. Disney suffers a coronavirus hit with seem parks shot, movie theaters closed, and sports on hold. Shery a quick check of the market. This after u. S. Stocks gained ground for a second day in the regular session. We have sentiment being boosted as more economies move towards easing lockdowns. Still, in the last hour of trading, there were some cautionary comments on said officials that cut gains in half. New zealand stock scanning. 8 . This would be a Third Sessi...

Today. We are seeing crude fall 13 when it comes to w. T. E and the phillipines, that is one of the weaker side. But when it comes to the june ontracts, down 4 to 19 bucks. Look at what it comes to w. G. E . We are hovering around the 11 mark when it comes to new york crude, down 13. 6 . We mentioned about the United States oil fund, the largest oil fund in the world selling off e and ingsings in w. G. Unexpected move. Lets get more analysis with jp morgan asia yeah strategist. Is this starting ...

Julie hyman is with us. We are halfway into the trading day. Julie we headed more deeply into the session. Major averages touch highs today, on a closing basis and we continue this march ever upward. Risk aversion seems to be nowhere to be found in the market. Another way to measure that besides continuing records is the low volatility that really persists here. The vix is something that really looks at that. Vix is the on the current level. They are looking for continued low volatility. Latest ...

Manus welcome to countdown. 6 00 in the morning here in london. Manus super tuesday. Anna the picture around the asian stock trading session. The chinese data we have weighing on a number of asset classes. It is talk about what is going on in japan. Japan selling 10 year bonds at a negative yield for the first time. Manus this is joining the club. You have the 10 year yields being negative. The Central Banks have gone into negative territory. We are showing the bid to cover them. Level in the de...

The global underperforming coming from the nikkei, closing down three for a percentage points, catching up with dollar yen. Switch up the board and we would get to the fx market. We it is a weaker dollar story on the euro. That is a yeartoday high. Just coming in a little bit following where crude is going down by. 6 of 1 at 45. 66. Lets get across matt a couple of them are the stories we have been watching all weekend long. Yesterday afternoon is when we found this out, right . It feels like ye...

Good morning. You are watching the pulse. We are here in london. Getting somet breaking news out of the International Energy agency. Cutting Global Oil Demand for the fourth time in five months. Despite the fact that the price of oil is going down, demand is not picking up. The fact that they are having to do that for the fourth time in five months tells you about how quickly everybody is racing to try to get in front of this story. The story that continues to see nymex crude getting crushed. Be...

Monitoring a woman who was working for the director. Large parts of the west ant artka have began to collapse. A rise in global sea levels is now inevitable. There was a startling Development Today in nigeria in the case of hundreds of missing school girls abducted a month ago. The radical Armed Islamic Group Boko Haram released this video saying all of the women in the vails were kidnapped and have been converted to islam. The leader says the girls will be held in the Nigerian Government freeze...

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