Thedual listing could be biggest share sale in history. Softbank makes headlines again. Amassedid to have 20 billion in a stock trading movement despite a skeptical response from shareholders. Lets take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. At this as we are just getting some line through when it comes to the reserve bank of australias assistant governor. They are giving a speech saying it is more complex to assess the policy stance than it has been in the past. Due to the economic and fiscal conditions at play. We will continue to monitor some of those comments and we are also looking ahead to the rba Meeting Minutes as well. We are seeing downside in the first couple of minutes or so, trading in sydney on 5. 1 and then new zealand, that market is back to modest gains as we continue to process the outcome of the victory we saw from the Prime Minister and her resounding reelection effort over the weekend. The nikkei 225 seeing upside when we get into the open of. 25 of where
Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued stock to play with there is pressure to answer and three u. S. Restrictions are hurt something chip makers like xilinks and theres no end to that in site good morning, guys pat, are you surprised not a the hoff overlap here. So in that sense, maybe this deal isnt at risk but, hey, not a lot of overlap here. So maybe this is risky the. Yeah. The so as you said before, amd needs to grow. When i look at valuation, im sure stacy will will weigh in on this, it had to do something organic growth isnt
Hang seng is flat. Taiwan is the leader on the board. We will talk about tsmc. They are gaining on the back of the apple news. We continue to watch dollar renminbi. 16 month high for the yen. We could be set for the best performance ever for the renminbi. Look at whats going on the rest of g10. Still seeing a strong yen. Pound is gaining for a third day at 129. The dollar falling to the twoweek low ahead of the fed decision. Take a look at bond yields ahead, not much movement. Its pretty quiet before the fed. Six the seven basis points for u. S. 10 year. Bondsl off in government the fall off in government bonds may have run its course. Saw the biggest cash injects and since 2018. Crude jumping on the back of that Better Chinese data we got yesterday. Back to our top story. A big win on paper, but not much in the real world. Says that Donald Trumps tariffs on chinese goods violated International Regulations, but its unlikely to make much of a material difference. Lets get more from our
Sorry to cut it a bit short today, a lot of news today thank you. Meanwhile, welcome everybody, this is squawk alley, were continuing to hunt for indications and clues. Meadows, kudlow, mnuchin all saying mild symptoms, and leader mcconnell says just ahead a great phone call with potus. We talked business and that really has taken over whatevertrack we might have ordinarily spent on the jobs number we wish the president and the first lady well. We wish everyone well who has had a diagnosis of the virus and there are all kinds of questions now about the state of president trumps agenda clearly the Senate Majority leader trying to emphasize that part of things remains on track as far as the Supreme Court nomination and more, carl, but yeah, well just have to see as well how the markets continue to react to this. Amon jabbers, take stock of the information were getting from all areas of washington dc and all branchs of government. Yeah, a massive Contact Tracing around here as officials s
Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t