The Chinese Market has been pretty resilient amid the turmoil. The nikkei to do five higher by 6. 7 . Bluechip stocks stocks looking attractive, up 0. 8 , the cheapest since 2009. Wont be surprising for investors to be picking those out. The rest of asia was pretty much down. The hang seng rising 4. 5 . The benchmark in new zealand higher. Lets flip the board and see where we are in terms of futures. A higher open. It is surprising unlimited qe did not raise the s p more than most people thought. Futures acrosstheboard pointing to a higher open later today. Now, hong kong is taking drastic measures after a surge in imported Coronavirus Infections. From midnight wednesday they will ban nonresidents from visiting for 14 days and will stop bars and restaurants from serving alcohol. Lets bring in stephen engle. Lets start with these latest measures. Why is the government feeling they are necessary . Stephen last week they put in another step where they required a 14 day quarantine for all
We start our programme in the us where trade tariffs will be hiked yet again on more goods on china. The latest round will affect another 125 billion worth of products everything from smartwatches to flat screen tvs, footwear to bluetooth headsets. All in all it will take the total of goods traded to 550 billion that will now fall under tariffs imposed by president trump. American companies and their consumers, are feeling the pain. A coalition of us industry organisations has asked mr trump to reconsider his plan. China this time has indicated it wont immediately retaliate with tariffs of its own. In fact, the Chinese Commerce Ministry Says beijing and washington are discussing the possibility of talks next month. Lets speak to the market analyst craig erlam. Why are the latest tariff hikes different . We have to remember that when you implement these tariffs you look at your imports and say what will be least damaging on our economy and which will take its greatest toll . Naturally y
More solid, with the exception of what is happening in hong kong. Yvonne saw another violent weekend. Police firing tear gas at subway stations. Hong kong relatively stable when it comes to the hang seng. Cathay pacific, seeing one of the biggest worst sessions we have seen. Lets talk about what would watching in terms of currencies. Dollar china below that 710 handle. Comingseeing strength through in the earlier losses. The close on friday was not pretty. David we took one of the three levels we were tracking, which would not take you back to the referendum. Took out 121, 10 speak looking at 11986. Watching those levels very closely. Iron ore is continuing. 28 depending on what contract. Still holding up at the 1500s. Yvonne lets talk more about what is moving on these markets. We saw stronger fixing from the pboc, where the currency headed now . What the pboc is signaling is aat it is trying to oversee steady, controlled weakening of the currency. Thats what the fixes have shown over
China out prices in in half an hour. 4898, it tells you what has been going on since 2006. The white line indicates firsttier city performance. We have had this massive runup in june 2015. Ever since, we have seen this fall back. It has been muted for secondtier and third tear cities. We have early data from china real estate showing a sharp rebound in tier one cities and tier three cities. Is the result of strict controls during the october Party Congress unwinding, so the possibility of a turnaround. All will be revealed after xi jinping said houses are for living in, not for speculation. The lastding day of week in this part of the world, singapore, taiwan, and malaysia kicking things off. Sophie the countdown to christmas, risk on for markets with the u. S. Tax bill passage looking likely. We have the Malaysian Ringgit and the won leading declines against the dollar, and the yen looking to test 113. We have u. S. Key Economic Data deck this week. Shares mostly climbing. The kospi l
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. Youre watching the pulse live from bloombergs european headquarters. Were here in london. Im guy johnson. Lets get straight to our top stories. Protests in hong kong. Beijing Bank Authorities demanding that the chief executives of hong kong must now go. David, give us a sense of whats happening in hong kong right now. Well, what were seeing just today after the protesters once again blanketed the main roads into central hong kong, a lot of them have gone to work today so it seems some dispurgs of the crowd but we expect them to come back again. Tomorrow and the day after, it is a Public Holiday here in hong kong and those were the days when occupy central, one of the main organizers of this movement wanted to have their sitin. They brought it forward because the students really started protesting last friday, but what we really do expect to see tomorrow is tens of thousand s of people back on the streets here in hong kong. Remember these protests, numb