Surveillance today on television, on radio. We welcome all of you worldwide, across this nation, where the linkage, the urgency that we see within our politics and our economics is truly front and center. Get out the calendar. I believe it is 23 july, and this is a nation staggering to the first week of august. Jonathan what urgency . It is sunshine and rainbows in the equity market. In washington, d. C. , we havent seen the urgency we actually need. There are a lot of people still out of work. This market is in a lot of pain, and it is not going to heal as quickly as we needed to. In about 30 minutes, initial jobless claims set to come in at around 1. 3 million again. We need to see much bigger improvement. Tom that will be a key statistic of the week. Rule number one in the equity market is follow bonds. I continue to see yield compression, lower yields and flatter curves. Jonathan sunshine and rainbows lisa sunshine and rainbows very much funded by real yield that is negative by the
Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
Texas sees record daily infections. Walmart demand shoppers wear masks. Some of the most prominent have beenn america hacked. We will have the latest. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up when it comes to the futures session going into the start of trading this thursday in asia. Take a look at u. S. Futures pointed a little bit to the negative, flat at the moment for futures contracts after u. S. Stocks climbed to her than a one month high. We had renewed optimism that we are getting closer incrementally on this Virus Vaccine Development front, not just with the news on moderna, but also a rival set of trials being conducted in the u. K. , reporting some progress. We saw the s p gaining just shy of 1 and actually manage a drift back into positive territory for the year, albeit brief. Chicago looking modestly higher after the bank of japan governor , kuroda, provided some clarity albeit still a very dire outlook when it comes to the japanese economy but saying it was now past the w
People dead. Apple is reClosing Stores and pepsi is shutting a food plant in beijing. The reserve bank of australia shifting its yield curve policy into Cruise Control, saying it is functioning better now than when the qe program began. Shery u. S. Futures under pressure. We are seeing it down. 6 . This after u. S. Stocks dropped the most in more than a week. Stocks are feeding on the record levels fading on the record levels of coronavirus in florida. Industrials and energy leading. The weekeek ended in the green for u. S. Stocks. China will accelerate purchases of u. S. Farm products. It was a slightly in the green sixth session of gains. Oil is under pressure heading towards the 39 a barrel, after it at one point surpassed four dollars a barrel. 40 a barrel. Theres optimism we could see global fuel demand and we had more reassurance from the opecplus groupon output cuts last week. Group on output cuts last week. Haidi china has confirmed its new National Security law will override h
Geopolitical risks add to headwinds for investors. Oul says north korea must bear all consequences for its actions. Indian defense stocks gain on tension with china. The turnaround when i was sitting in this chair yesterday that we saw in u. S. Futures, the biggest since 2016, we saw a lot of green on the screen fueled by stimulus from the fed on corporate bonds, but also in terms of fiscal stimulus. Today is a different picture. The second wave has become front and center a little bit more again. Investors try to see where to go next. In terms of the equity rally, a mixed picture in asia. The Msci Asia Pacific index is flat. U. S. Futures edging into the red along with european futures. The 10 year yield missing a couple of basis points. Fx, you are not seeing a lot of moves either way for the dollar. G10, you are seeing underperformance of Commodity Currencies, also seeing a pullback in oil, retreating with the outbreak in china perhaps threatening the one bright demand spot there wa