Another 1,204 fatalities in Brazil push continent’s toll higher; Russian test to involve 40,000 people; UK’s second city Birmingham faces lockdown
- Global report: WHO in talks with Russia about its vaccine
- Australia updates: Canberra at odds with states over border closures
- Lockdown looms for Birmingham after spike in UK’s second-biggest city
- Chinese media dismisses attacks on Wuhan’s pool party as ‘sour grapes’
And while we’re still with finance, markets in Sydney, Tokyo and Seoul will be opening in about 20 minutes. They’re expected to see a lift this morning after those losses yesterday but we’ll see how it pans out.
Here are the scores on the doors from the good folk at IG Markets:
APAC Opening Calls:#ASX 6139 +0.43%#NIKKEI 23030 +0.66%#HSI 24917 +0.60%#NIFTY 11374 +0.75%#A50 15331 +0.68%#TWSE 12459 +1.00%#IGOpeningCall
Two days ago the S&P500 stock market index reached an all-time high and today it’s the turn of the tech-heavy Nasdaq index.
Shares in Apple, Microsoft and Tesla all rose strongly to lift the Nasdaq 1.1% despite a so-so showing from other indices, including the S&P which slipped from its Wednesday peak. In London the FTSE100 slipped 1.5% and other major markets saw similar falls.
The love for technology stocks grew as the favorite pandemic plays, such as Apple and Tesla, saw strong demand. No one wants to short this market, so we are seeing investors just rotate back into technology stocks today.
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