No Firm Direction

E-minis edged higher in Asia-Pac trade, building on Thursday's late bounce, while the major Asia-Pac indices struggled for any uniform direction.

• The Hang Seng was the outperformer within the region, after underperforming yesterday, while the remainder of the major regional indices traded either side of unchanged.
• As we have noted, familiar sources of risk have dominated headline flow of the last 24 hours, most notably, the fiscal impasse in DC, COVID-19 worry (largely focused on Europe) and the ongoing Brexit saga.
• Nikkei 225 +0.1%, Hang Seng +0.9%, CSI 300 +0.2%, ASX 200 -0.3%.
• S&P 500 futures +6, DJIA futures +37, NASDAQ 100 futures +15.