While ASX futures last traded lower on New Year’s Eve, Wall Street’s positive start to 2022 could turn sentiment. Tesla and Apple surge.
: The shift to COVID-19 home testing using RAT kits is occurring in such a rush that it is in danger of failing to provide optimum community protection levels.: The agency is struggling to police the $US2 trillion crypto sector, as criminals anonymously conduct their affairs on the dark web.: Shares in Tesla surged more than 10 per cent after the electric-car maker smashed its quarterly record for deliveries.
“Although COVID-19 variants permeated the global economy, 2021 was the year of records with many bourses closing at or near record highs, while inflows into equities surpassed their largest accumulation ever ,” said Sean Darby, global equity strategist at Jefferies.Stock indexes in Germany, France, Italy and Spain were up between 0.5 per cent and 1.4 per cent, while London markets were closed.
“Sentiment is generally still weak for China’s consumer-facing tech companies, not just from the risk of further regulations, but also difficult macro conditions due to fresh COVID-19 outbreaks and weaker consumption,” said Vey-Sern Ling, a senior analyst at Union Bancaire Privee. “Having said that, valuations are depressed and investors may be looking to add positions selectively.”
OPEC+, a grouping of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, has been gradually unwinding record oil production cuts of 10 million barrels per day , about 10 per cent of global oil output, agreed in March 2020 to counter the hit to demand from the pandemic.
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