Closing early is not good. It is extraordinary. The difference versus what we have got here is absolutely extraordinary. Francine on the lockdown, it basically gives you a kind of a benchmark, code red, code rain, code yellow, to get a sense of what you code green, code yellow, to get a sense of what you need to do. They are trying to make it simple, but we are not even 24 hours until forest johnson made that announcement. Tom Jacob Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins, we talk to him two times a week, the lead quote today in the Washington Post be inoat it is real simple the Washington Post. It is real simple. Were just waiting for a vaccine. Leighann President Trump says he feels so powerful after recovering from coronavirus. He wants to walk into a crowd and kiss everybody. The president spoke at a rally in florida. His first stop since his return to the campaign trail. There was little social distancing at the event, although some spectators wore masks. Supreme Court Nominee amy coney onret
We have seen the g10 space benefiting from that, especially when it comes to the pound. There are brexit negotiations starting today in brussels. So far there is possibility of progress. It looks like we are in this seeing people are are saying this is the yen buying path of least resistance. We are looking at, when it comes to commodities, the gold futures. Right now. Silver and aluminum having a big comeback. You see brent crude hovering around 42 right now. One big interview to tell you about today. We are talking about market debuts in hong kong, gto express. Here is the bond market first. Not a lot of movement when it comes to the aussie 10 year yield. 77 basis points as people wind back the rate cuts. 3. 11 for the chinese 10 year still. This is what i was talking about. He is joining us for an exclusive interview at the bottom of this hour. A pretty stellar debut to start the week. Haslinda like you said, a lack of conviction. From get Market Analysis the asset strategist at j.
Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Confirmed coronavirus deaths top one million globally but some estimates are double that. Angela merkel warns about a christmas virus bike as the netherlands imposes a threeweek curfew on bars and restaurants. Stimulus still drives stocks. House democrats released a scaledback 2. 2 trillion proposal. President trump goes headtohead with joe biden tonight in the first u. S. President ial debate. Out free now, considering the purchase of daimler and bmws joint shares 3 . 3 into the close. Lets take a look at futures. We see green arrows, but only up. 1 or. 2 . U. S. Futures are doing better at this early hour, up one third of 1 . Regardless of where you look, the dow jones, s p, or nasdaq, contracts are rising. What do you see on the gmm . Anna a fascinating day yesterday in markets, with gains of more than 3 on some European Markets. As you have been through, futures looking more subdued, and that is the case in the asian session.
Likely overstepped. President trump announces rapid virus tests to expand Patient Access and reopen schools. Cases continue to rise as deaths are about to past one million globally. Shery thats get you a check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online flat after we saw the rally in the york regular session. We saw the s p 500 jumping the most in two weeks, extending that global rally that we saw overnight. Investors really buying the dip after four weeks of losses. We had some rebalancing of portfolios ahead of the quarter end. We have the s p 500 seeing its best day since april. Banks leading the gains. All 11 sectors gained ground. The dollar rally hitting a positive in this rally in the stock market. Wti under a little bit of pressure at the moment. This after it drew some support from the u. S. Stock rally. It was at a oneweek high. We also have some optimism over a potential stimulus deal. In the broader context of things, oil remains down 5 in sept
Protests take their toll. Shery china continues to push the liberalized market with a more flexible loan. Japan and south korea have come online. Lets get straight market action. Offie the nikkei 225 is. 3 . Best court of the again since 2016. Asian stocks are drifting toward the year end. We are digesting the latest figures. We are going to be getting hong kong trade numbers. Taking a look at was going on in sydney. We are seeing shares snap a threeyear game. Paul lets get you uptodate with the first word news. Wildfires in australia are expected to get worse this year week amid rising temperatures. 122 millions of million acres of land have burned. Nine People Killed and over 950 homes destroyed. Scott morrison says that firefighters battling the fires in New South Wales will be compensated. This is putting additional demands on our firefighters in particular. It means the turnouts and the callouts have been far more extensive than in previous years. This is beyond and above what is