Morning. And the nasdaq is down by 182 points a lot of this is whats happening in europe right now. You dont just look at the oversees market but were going to take our queues from what is happening there. You can see the ftse down by 3. 4 and the other markets are down by more and a lot of this is coming in the last few hours. They could be considering a second lock down as covid cases there have soared theyre back to the levels in may. Theyre concerned about whats happening with the number of cases and the hospitalizations admissions doubling every 8 days theyre now looking at 6,000 cases a day and again theres been some talk of a potential second lock down there now they want to make sure that schools can stay open and that some businesses could stay open but just the threat of that, the potential for the second wave coming is enough to push all of the stocks in europe into the red. If you take a look at whats been happening with travel and leisure stocks they were down by 6 earlier
Ridehailing company grab is among the companies reconsidering partnerships. And it is rent day for britains commercial tenants, but how many businesses will pay up . Theu. K. Plans this as u. K. Plants substantial easing of lockdown measures. We will get analysis. Lets have a look at where we are on the futures picture for equity markets. This is the picture for european futures. Stoxx 50 futures and ftse futures both down around. 06 0. 6 . It looks like we will have a bit of a move to the downside at the start of trade. U. S. Futures are fairly flat this hour. Futures on the s p entirely flat, on the dow entirely flat, the nasdaq or positive, up 0. 2 . Yesterday we saw concerns around the second wave of the virus or the third wave, perhaps, in the u. S. , the south and southwest of the United States, taking the edge off gains in the s p, but the nasdaq is powering through to new record highs. Lets show you whats been going on through the asian session. Things looking pretty mixed. Som
Across the americas. Texasa sees a record as says covid19 is spreading at unacceptable rates. The u. S. Raises the pressure on Chinese Media organizations, foreigning four more as missions and calling them nothing more than began to outlets. Shery lets get you started. We are seeing u. S. Futures kicking off trading flat at the moment after u. S. Stocks rose. A pretty choppy morning session but technology did manage to lead the advanced. The nasdaq composite rising to a record high, seventh consecutive session of days. The longest winning streak since december. We did get some negative sentiment on rising coronavirus cases in dozen states. The s p 500 did lag this gain across the board. Some sectors like financial and health care under pressure as investors weigh the Economic Impact of a second wave. Take a look at what oil is doing at the moment. Wti right now falling towards the 40 a barrel after finishing at the three month high. We have some demand optimism as states have moved tow
President biden imposes limits on u. S. Investments in china. Alibaba returns to growth across all of the main divisions, defying chinas economic turbulence. We will take a deeper look at the Supreme Court ruling in the epic case siding with apple, at least for now. The other big story was inflation, gaining 0. 2 last month. The slowest pace of gains for two years. The market starts thinking about the fed and then says maybe the fed will skip a rate hike in the next meeting. Why do we care about the fed . Higher rates discount the valuations for future cash flows for names on the nasdaq 100. The main text the main tech index outperforming but we are basically treading water. The other big risk as it is bitcoin. We are the same level we have out for two weeks. The u. S. 10 year yield climbing back up. Remember the story we keep reiterating. Yields have been coming slightly lower from 4. 2 on the 10 year to now nero took now nearer to 4 . The earnings story is disney. So many stories in
A 1000000 display. And israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forms a government of National Unity with opposition and former army chief any guns. Hell also be part of a 3 man war cabinet, as netanyahu vows to quote crushed amongst the sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. German chancellor aloft, schultz has urged palestinian president my food a boss to clearly condemn the mazda attacks on israel. Calling his silence so far, shameful. In his speech to the german parliament, shots also pledged to support for israel. Saint. Germanys only place right now is that israels side, he said that israel must have the capacity to defend itself. Adding that the terrorist groups must offers only poverty and misery for the Palestinian People and gossip. Some models is sholtes also said that his government would issue a formal ban on her most activities in germany. If at the time to get my so to be condemn the violence of the terrors of his argument elect law. And we say very clearly is right l. Ho