August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than expected. The kiwi dollar up. 2 . Lets move on to some of the commodities, gold again looking strong and well, above 2000 an ounce, a little bit of weakness in the last hour or so, down about. 2 . Terms of oil were looking at the beirut story, the port explosion there and there was concern that have geopolitical tensions emanating from that. Thats the yield picture in the points. St over 10 basis rally washe dollar rather short, and then weve got gold, the inverse correlation back at the moment. T
Moment as we look at the labor economy of the united states. ,resident trump out front giving his strategy on the adp report to dovetail a big number for friday, with the reality of the adp report in 14 minutes. Jonathan i think we are both lost for words over this one. Adp report around 15 minutes away. The estimate, positive 1. 2 million. It continues with claims tomorrow and concludes with payrolls friday. The churn beneath the surface, we talked about this so many times. Claims only show you one side. We will try to get the net of things friday. Really unpredictable. Tom i agree, adp is a little squishy. It is likely john swann axios interview. Theres a huge margin of error on the jobs report. How do you see the bond market set up for the margin of error of fridays report . Lisa heres a question, are we already seeing a policy error with the delay of some sort of stimulus package . Are people going to be trying to find other reasons to take a move . I will say the bond market right
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In may, it was revised to a gain of three million jobs. Initially a drop of 2. 75 million was reported for may. Thats a huge revision and a very bullish sign that the economy is ready to come back once it reopens. Also, by the way, we get the jobs report for june tomorrow. A gain of three million jobs is expected as the nation begins to open up and by the way, larry kudlow will join us on that very subject tomorrow morning. Do not miss it. We are seeing a battle, meantime, between government and business once again as cases of the virus rise in some areas. In houston, the mayor putting several businesses on a socalled wall of shame on the citys website after they defied lockdown orders. Those businesses, all bars, by the way, not happy at all. In arizona, a gym owner is suing the state over the order to shut down again and is vowing to remain open despite those orders from the governor. Confrontations are arising. Another battle as we head towards the long Holiday Weekend, whether or n
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