Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
To the right with his choice of amy coney barrett. It would make it a 63 conservative split. Hitting a high know. Aims top behind bts raise 800 million in koreas largest ipo in years. Lets take a look at how we are setting up for the asian trading session. They hope to follow the momentum we saw in the u. S. Session on friday in particular with these gains in tech stocks. S p futures looking pretty positive,. 3 . Optimism as we get to the open in tokyo. A quiet first half of the week. We do have japanese throughput later on this week as well as decisions out of the philippines as well as india. Disney futures up by. 3 , as they continue to see growing concerns about the impact on the economy when some of these fiscal support measures start to peter out. We do have some optimistic news when it comes to the listing in victoria. New zealand off by 1. 5 . Dragged down by some of the dairy names. Tom the clock is ticking on tiktok. We are in our way from trumps ban that takes place midnight
The hearing was set before the bank agreed to pay 4 billion. The race for tiktoks assets aress the globe sees we told its been talking to geo platforms. We do have some breaking news crossing the bloomberg. Current account numbers coming through. We are getting the july current account surplus coming in at 7. 5 billion u. S. Dollars. The trade surplus sitting at 6. 9 7 billion in july and we are watching out for some other developments coming out south korea today. Highlevel officials of the Ruling Democratic Party and the government will be meeting to discuss a second cash handout and potentially a fourth extra budget according to local mode media reports and we are expecting perhaps an announcement when it comes to the social distancing measures as well as the coronavirus update to come. Lets take a look at the fed when it comes to the markets. It was a fallback overnight when it comes to u. S. Stocks and driven by a correction in the highflying tech sector. We saw u. S. Stocks falli
Which saw the brunt of the fallout. Billion but in60 the positive this tuesday morning. And now performer coming up by 1. 2 at a 52week high. Samsung among gainers. Numbers we sawp today, 42. 9 declines, a long road to recovery for the singapore economy. Malaysia up 0. 2 . Look at where we are in terms of the dollar, showing a little strength today, up for a third day. Forging rising risks holding the dollar with the november elections approaching quickly. Down 0. 4 , still close to a record last week. Good to see the tencent recovery, but not close to making up for all the losses we saw the last two sessions. Our top story with the u. S. Tensions and china retaliating with sanctions on u. S. Officials. And ahead of those trade discussions. We did a phase one deal, it was a wonderful deal. All of a sudden it means very little, that will never pay the loss of life in our country and around the world. We view china differently than we did eight months ago. Yvonne looking at china differe
Or the rest of the world. With Earnings Seasons coming up and a few key Economic Data points later this month, how confident are you in the economic recovery . Great setink we had a of economic figures really since midmay through june when the reopening story was gaining the most momentum. Reports,o great jobs pmi, sales, housing data, all to the upside. Economic price indices we follow are in the u. S. Now at alltime highs. That being said, i think we may have a time of slowing in perhaps in the weeks ahead as Economic Data plays catchup with what we are seeing in the country with a slower reopening broadly. So the job state of this past month captured the time from midmay to midjune. The next jobs report will capture midjune to mid july, when we started seeing thoses likes and those spikes and a pause in the reopening. As you mentioned, we also had earnings starting in earnest next week july 15. From an earnings perspective for two to we are seeing downward for q2, we are seeing a do