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But growth was soft. Thats not something the fed wants to hear. Similarly you take a look at data out of japan, tokyo cpi, even accounting for the start of education subsidies, something the boj might not want to hear, but we are still seeing stocks powering ahead today and this is six in large part to what we got on the earnings front, you had microsoft and alphabet. It really showed how ai is fueling growth. Stocks are reversing, some of the softness from yesterday. We are seeing chinese tech,...

But today, we see how metas outlook drag markets into negative territory after disappointing markets. But we have that outlier in hong kong where they hang seng, as you know, has been among the top performers globally this week, and hang seng tech is actually pulling ahead as well, but we are seeing a lot of concern for the japanese currencies, so lets take a closer look at what we are seeing on dollaryen. It has breached the 155 level. Take a look at how it has gone past remember when 152 seeme...

Samsung. But also how it points to this bottoming out in the chip market and potentially the recovery for semiconductor demand. Were actually seeing sk hynix starting today on the back foot, sliding about 3 now is investors digest that scorecard. Potentially what we got from med is bringing from meta is bringing the downdraft into the korean session. The outperformer among the asian currencies looks to be reversing some of that today. We also have the open in japan. One of the things we will be ...

Beijing. Yvonne it seems like the stress of the markets easing off a bit, which is a good sign. It is how you read the sentiment. Is it that the valuations are overstretched, uncertainty over tax reform, also, is it just the end of the year and traders are closing their books . It seems traders are using this opportunity to buy. Betty it seems to be the mantra you keep hearing these days. Adding to the media mentions of buy the dip. These markets have been going up and up it is about time for a ...

Announced he would step down. Bloomberg and Bloomberg Technology is next. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, u. S. Tax reform clears the house. We will discuss what comes next and what it means for tax caps. Plus, inside googles fake news fight. Behind the spike in tech ipos in asia. But first, to our lead. Lawmakers have passed their version of the u. S. Tax code. Ratesshes Corporate Tax while adding over 1 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. The senate is preparing its own vers...

Counts of the indictment against the menendez. Toy have the opportunity retry the men. The Trump Administration is considering having Mick Mulvaney serve as interim head of the Consumer Financial protection bureau. That is according to people familiar with the matter. Would stepced he down from the post later this month under a federal vacancies law. The president can replace an outgoing director temporarily from another person who has already won senate approval. Global news 24 hours a day, pow...

We will hear exclusively from the economy minister in japan. Betty just moments ago, breaking news out of europe, germanys chancellor Angela Merkel, her push to unite for parties together into a Coalition Government seems to have collapsed. They were just running up against that deadline. This is going to put germany into uncharted territory. And really puts Angela Merkels job on the line. You can see there is immediate Market Reaction already in the currency markets in particular, the euro drop...

9. 9 billion so far has been used. Talking about the Market Street in hong kong and elsewhere in the asiapacific. John woods joins us in a few minutes to talk about how to adjust your portfolio. Equities still the place to be, but there are perhaps more tweaks needed. Angie joining us is the former the wto herest for in hong kong. It will be interesting to get tradeoughts as to how will possibly stimulate these moves in the equity space. Lets take a look at the market. Blackrock saying the poten...

Medium term. We will speak to ceotidjan Ceotidjane Thiam late their morning. And viva aviva says it will deploy 3 billion pounds in excess cash. Good morning its thursday, not just any thursday, it is opec thursday. Its only a matter of minutes until steve is let into the socalled opec scrum the ministers in the room are widely expected to strike a deal to extend crude production cuts by as much as 9 months you can see steve in the background hes ready to go well bring that live to you wlechb wh...

Keeping in contact, linkedin has big plans for asia. We are going to set the challengers and the rivals. We are heading into the end of the trading week here in asia, and we do have a really supportive lead from wall street as we had the dow passing 24,000. The s p seeing its longest streak, monthly gains up by about a decade. We are going to get a potentially before christmas. We have over the last half hour or so had the announcement of suspension until 11 00 a. M. Friday morning in washington...