Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
Manus europe rallied. You are welcome. It is surveillance and i am manus cranny. Rallied. Ment, europe where up on the stoxx 600. It was text and telecoms that to the heavy lifting, nothing compared to your performance in asia. Record highs in asia. You are looking at levels that you havent seen since the 1990s in japan. Technology up 50 in asia. Europe, you are seeing this growth story. It is absolutely intact. The next question are you, European Equity markets, can you sustain the growth gains that we have had the euro at around 120 . Could the euro valuation unseat the story we see here . Week,llar index, what a what a year. This is the first yearly loss since 2012 for the dollar. You are seeing another push low. You get a 3 growth rate, you get a tax reform deal, you get three hikes from the Federal Reserve and still the dollar is lower. 2 lower from here at end of 2018. The most bearish view is the dollar will be down by another 5. 5 , not everybody is so pessimistic. On the upsid
Yield backing up about four basis points. We are now 25 basis points away from a bill gross who is now saying we could desk could be a could be a game changer. David a big day for earnings. Billion and18. 8 67 gspershare, dollar 1. 67. This be a pattern of earnings with 80 of companies. Alix revenue and sales on that. Energy leading the way. Conoco out with their earnings. A 2. 5ws come in billion, earning be as wells. As well. We saw the same thing happen with shell. The production missing a little bit. Up, 5. 5 billion so far this year. Cash flows at 2. 5 billion. What are they going to do with the cash flow . How sustainable is the higher cash flow . David we have someone joining us who will tell us. Dicker is looking at that. Alibaba announce their earnings and they beat as well. Per share. Yuan total79. 8 billion yuan revenue. 30 on theire back payment system. 33 on their payment system. Myx so i will put it in right pocket and left pocket and that is how we rounded out. David the
They include the audi and porsche. Welcome to countdown. It is a busy morning. Let me walk you through where we stand right now. The Banking Sector is front and center. The the news from Standard Chartered rocking the banking world this morning. Bill winters is cracking on with changing this institution. Let me show you the share price reaction. Standard chartered, from top to bottom, 8 drop in hong kong. We will see how we trade through here in europe. Ubs has just been breaking as well. In terms of the headline numbers, we had a net income 07 billion swiss franc. Looking through the numbers, i would say that the Asset Management division has slightly underperformed. Few misses,is a a few gains. Manus cranny is going to be talking to the ceo later on. Really looking forward to hearing what he has to say about his bank and where it goes from here. 6 45interview coming up at london time the a big focus on the banks in london and in europe and in hong kong. Lets get the details on how as
Outside of Nvidia (NVDA), two companies that impressively exceeded their quarterly earnings expectations this week and continued the incredible rally in their stocks are Deckers Outdoor (DECK) and Macro Bank (BMA).