600,000. Los angeles is facing a new lockdown. Tokyo and hong kong reporting record numbers. Australia is set to deliver a new budget, may be the biggest blowout since world war ii. Lets take a look at how we are setting up when it comes to markets. Ures this is how it is shaping up when it comes to the future contracts. A Third Straight week of gains when it comes to the s p, managing to withstand the lakesession latesession wound. Slow but steady rotation away from growth in tech. Much more going into value. Futures are up by about 0. 1 . Positivity when it comes to the trading in tokyo, just about 0. 2 higher. Chicago nikkei futures are higher, all eyes on whats going on in brussels with now three days of negotiations in the eu to reach this agreement on the stimulus package and hand out details. We are hearing details, including that the netherlands and austria remain the strongest holdouts in the eu recovery talks. A bit of anxiety playing through when it comes to the eurodollar t
600,000. Los angeles is facing a new lockdown while hong kong and tokyo have new record numbers. Australia set to deliver a new budget that may be the biggest since world war ii. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the market trading. After upside of. 1 , this another risk on week. The s p 500 ending higher on the friday session, seven out of 11 s p 500 sectors were led higher by utilities. We have the dow losing. 25 and the nasdaq was up. 3 . It was interesting it was the first week of 2018 with a nafta nasdaq was down and the others were up for the week. The thirddown week for the dollar, we will get another week of weakness for the dollar that will be the first time this year , a whole month of weakness in the greenback. Take a look at how oil is doing, Holding Steady at that 40 a barrel level. You have some weak ecodata. U. S. Consumer sentiment posting a decline in july that was factored into the oil markets. Now we are seeing it unchanged at the moment. This is a bus
110 per share the last time i looked. For green on the screen mainland equities. They continue to climb higher. The futures in the u. S. Are flat. We can move it on now. In terms of the dollar, there is some weakness. Trade data out earlier. A bit of a squeeze on the aussie. Concerns about the virus as well in victoria. In terms of the euro, that has been on the tail end. We can move it onto some of the commodities were looking at. This thing in terms of inventories. They have been declining but still concerns about the virus and demands there. Gold is currently at 17. 68. There is the spread that we see. Were are looking at really back termsupport, on pause in of additional stimulus to the economy. Yvonne i was hoping for some type of liquidity or something to reverse that trade. Look at what we are seeing here. The Prime Minister of australia has considered this worse. This is falling in line with what we have seen from other Global Leaders like Boris Johnson who now says nearly 3 mi
Although probeijing officials have said we should not be too concerned, it will lead to stability in the city. 7 . Sci asia pacific down it is certainly something of a riskoff mood, following off what we saw toward the end of play on friday in the u. S. The nikkei is down more than 1 . In the mainland, you have a bit of pressure as well a despite industrial profits up 6 coming in over the weekend for the month of may. On to the next board. We will be looking at the currencies. A bit of dollar weakness. On friday it reached its highest level in four weeks, but it has since come off slightly, leading to a bit of strength for the offshore currency here in china. The korean won is up about plan to 01 . On to some of the commodities we are looking at. Wti has been under pressure as the demand story as we focus on the rate of infections, 10 million infections, 500,000 deaths, you can see that it is lower today. Gold, science that investors are preparing to cross through 1800. 0. 64 . Year yi
We saw a stronger fix, some signs of trying to anchor the moves we have seen. Watching the likes of indonesia coming online. We are looking at another day of gains for jakarta. Hang seng, slightly under pressure as we wait for the npc to vote on that National Security legislation this afternoon. Former,ei is the upper seeing a fourth day of gains for Japanese Equities on the reopening. Currencies, hong kong dollar is the focus. You look at pokechecked seeing 775 but speculators are out there. The korean won seeing weakness. And then going lower after the bok cut rates for the record low. Lashed their growth outlook. You look at the weakness in the renminbi, that is not really translated. It is pretty much unchanged for some time. We are watching the euro as well after we saw some fiscal stimulus plan, it should be a big deal for the currency, the euro hitting the strongest level in two months. Watching oil which did extent losses, saw a surprise jump in the u. S. Crude stockpiles with