President trump talks down a military response. Ab inbev is said to be looking for a valuation half what it originally sought rate asian unit as we worked delays its ipo until at least october. The case against Boris Johnsons brexit plan. The u. K. Prime ministers suspension of Parliament Comes under scrutiny in the Supreme Court starting today. Good morning, everybody. Less than a halfhour until the start of the European Equity trading day. This is the picture on european futures. We just came down a little bit in the expectations for the start of the trading day as far as the london and the german markets are concerned. The French Market looking more resilient. Weakness coming through in the Asian Session. Geopolitical tension, of course, in the aftermath of the weekend. Lets have a look at the gmm and show you where we are. Down 1. 7 on chinese markets. Hong kong markets also leading the fall. This is where the weaknesses is coming through. Some numbers be expectations from singapor
The russell up nearly a full percent. The broader markets, though, flat s p just lower dow, just higher joining us for the full hour, stephanie link very good afternoon to you thanks for having me. Markets flat overall, but whats happening underneath . Massive rotation today, and it actually started over the last couple of weeks and a lot of that has to do with a little bit better Economic Data that were getting around the world. Even over the weekend, we got the export import numbers out of china. And even though they were down year over year, the trend is still definitely up. And this comes on the heels of better pmi so i think a lot of it is a little bit better Economic Data. And then its this trade talk seems to be making some sort of progress so the cyclicals are actually the ones that are leading. Its financials, tech, industrials. And within tech, its se semiconductors versus Software Software is actually getting slammed. Is it that the expectations came down too far, too fast,
And break the impasse. U. S. Treasury yields come off session lows on the new optimism after a bond rush pushes the tenyear to levels not seen since the middle of 2016 and hong kong protests take a violence turn again as police draw guns and use a water cannon in the 12th week of prodemocracy demonstrations to rock the chinese territory all right, good morning, everybody. It is a bank holiday in the uk but not so much for European Markets. Ill take you to all the price action were having and seeing today in some of those european indexes. Lets start off with germany were getting some data out. So let me just bring you those numbers there. We are seeing yet another decline in business german moral in the month of august it has come in at 94. 3, this is below the Consensus Forecast of 95. 1, so drop in the business clie mate index, kurn season index coming in at 97. 3. Again, this is the lower than the Consensus Forecast of 98. 6 forehandlooking basis, expectations at 91. 3 versus 91. 5
Standoff stands. A busy market rally with stocks jumping on the president s comments saying china wants to get back to the table on trade. Well see where we go. From here, we go to blake burman, with the latest on all the back and forth at the white house. Hi, blake . Reporter we heard from President Trump for a while, he feels china wants to make a deal. They need to make a deal very badly. He reiterated that earlier today. The market swung earlier today when the president said that china called over the weekend and said they wanted to get back to the negotiating table. Heres the issue with that. When chinas foreign minister was asked about these calls that were made. They disputed the notion there were any sort of calls being made. When, at least over the weekend. When the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin was asked about it earlier today, sitting alongside the president he jumped in said there had been quote communication through intermediaries. President trump was asked about that a
Washington many. But it is stronger than expected much more on china coming up in a few minutes. European equities, again, sliding in the last few hours. Germany basically flat were taking that to 3 decimal points here. France, uk, spain slightly negative, italy essentially flat as well. Finally treasury yields, the tenyear hovering right around 1. 7 1. 69 is where we have it right now. So certainly something that investors are watching. Yeah. You have yields slipping again a little bit this morning, but were off the lows of last week, which briefly dipped below 1. 6 on the tenyear. Thats encouraging yields had such a big effect on equities as we all know. I think on europe the interesting thing to note this morning is that were not seeing a gap up again in terms of the spread of italian over german yields and talk about the potential new election coming up hong kong, is down 9. 5 , shanghai down 5. 5 it is weighing more on the shanghai market. We saw that elevation escalation of conce