Wednesday, December 5, 2018

"Carnage Continues: US Futures Crash At Re-Open After Huawei CFO Arrest"

Dudes, you'd best not be thinking of messing with my soybeans.

From ZeroHedge:
Having taken a day off to watch Bush's funeral - drifting modestly higher before the early close - reports of the arrest of Huawei's CFO at the request of US authorities has sparked carnage at the re-open.

As we detailed earlier, mere hours after Chinese officials finally affirmed President Trump's description of Saturday's trade 'truce' - this after fears that the true nature of the agreement might have been "lost in translation" helped trigger the worst one-day market selloff since October - the DOJ has gone ahead and kicked the hornet's nest, seriously jeopardizing the prospects for a prolonged trade detente between the world's two biggest economies.

Dow futures were down over 500 points as they opened...

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