110 per share the last time i looked. For green on the screen mainland equities. They continue to climb higher. The futures in the u. S. Are flat. We can move it on now. In terms of the dollar, there is some weakness. Trade data out earlier. A bit of a squeeze on the aussie. Concerns about the virus as well in victoria. In terms of the euro, that has been on the tail end. We can move it onto some of the commodities were looking at. This thing in terms of inventories. They have been declining but still concerns about the virus and demands there. Gold is currently at 17. 68. There is the spread that we see. Were are looking at really back termsupport, on pause in of additional stimulus to the economy. Yvonne i was hoping for some type of liquidity or something to reverse that trade. Look at what we are seeing here. The Prime Minister of australia has considered this worse. This is falling in line with what we have seen from other Global Leaders like Boris Johnson who now says nearly 3 mi
Stronger then expected. It is year on year for the month of december. In terms of fixed Asset Investment, we are looking. Investment for december. Context stabilizing. Of the early indicators are looking robust. Of course, some of at the localimulus government level, supporting fixed Asset Investment. We are looking at the bottom of this slow down. Lets send it to our next guest. Next guest. Theuse i would say that december number was picking up further. Especially with the help of more , i would say that we are turning more bullish. It is the secondbiggest in terms of growth over the last two years or so. Can you elaborate . We have seen that ip demand picking up. More demand coming out from southern china. Been drier than usual. People are waiting to frontload some of the orders, particularly early this year. You probably need to get most things done in the fourth quarter. Into the first quarter, we saw demand and names holding up pretty well yvonne . Retail sales have held around 10
Saying. Very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow into joining us this hour. A scandal has erupted in brazil after leaks messages suggest a Corruption Case against the countrys former president will address silva was politically motivated the messages published by investigative news site the intercept appear to show the judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of Lula Da Silva say the leaks confirmed their fears that the case was a stitch up designed to prevent him from winning his 2018 reelection bid now the probe was part of brazils biggest anticorruption crusade known as operation car wash which saw dozens of high level politicians imprisoned. What was sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for corruption and Money Laundering including for accepting a luxury apartment and exchange for state contracts he however denies ever owning it and the leaked messages suggest that prosecutors themselves question the strength of the evidence again
Blake is live with more on that developing story. Meanwhile, the fbi admitting that mistakes were made in the handling of the Florida Shooting suspect niclas cruz. A caller to the fbi tip line warned the agency that nikolas cruz owned guns, made disturbing social media posts and posed a threat as a school shooter. That warning was never followed up. We will have the latest details and discuss how Something Like this could happen. In the meantime, the president is set to leave the white house at this moment. He is headed tomorrow largo for a weekend in florida. There is speculation a stop in parkland where the shooting took place could be in the works. If he stops to talk we will take you there. All that in the markets, they continue to climb higher. The s p 500 and nasdaq looking to wrap up their best week in six years. Good afternoon. Im Ashley Webster in for liz clayman. Just as you thought it was going to be a nice quiet friday, theres no such thing these days. Heres how the day is
European equities are trading, 30 minutes until the end of the friday session. Little changed on the day for the stoxx 600, which means its touch and go whether we will rise over the week. We are on track to gain for the third week, which is the best run since january 13, all these currencies are rising against the dollar today. Yields declining across europe today. It busy day for earnings. Lets get on with it, the biggest steelmaker in germany falling as much as 5. 5 earlier. The most since july. It now expects Free Cash Flow in the year through september to be negative, and earlier projection was for slightly positive figure in the current fiscal year. Shares falling despite the announcement for the fiscal profit forecast after including its operating performance and agreeing to sell its brazilian steel plant. On the matter of steel, shares the worlds steer made her steelmaker down 7. 5 after it posted firstquarter profit that double beating estimates amid a rally in steel demand. W