Doesnt mean he wont go through with it over the next couple weeks. Taking a look at where the nikkei is, ending the year lower by 0. 5 . The nikkei recovered 50 of its slide since its record in 2009. Goldman among those expecting some kind of lift for japanese stocks in the coming year. Fromys japan will benefit a Global Economic recovery. Lets turn the page and look at where we are in terms of currencies. We know it has been a quiet volatility at a five year low. If history is any guide, the , it ishe currency to buy a favorable month and it has risen seven out of the last 10 years. The hong kong dollar, it may be six months of the protest, the hong kong dollar said to have its strongest month in 16 years. This is how it is looking at this point. David since 2000 three, that was the last time we saw a gain of this magnitude for the hong kong currency. We are looking ahead to the open in india, it was quite a steep gain we had friday although i should point out, depending on which inde
Mixed bag. The dax is down almost 0. 5 . The carmakers dragging on the dax. The ftse 100 is a different story, up 0. 3 . Some individual Companies Making gains. The british pounds giving back more of the gains of the week, 1. 3075. Pearson up after giving up the Penguin Random house it owns. Lets get to more with luke kawa, Bloomberg Cross asset reporter. It seems like this market is more and more moving on individual Company Names and less on a trade resolution or British Election resolution. Luke definitely. Weve taken a step back from the macro. That we are not really looking ahead to anything. We are just kind of in stall right now, waiting for the rest of the year to play out. Yesterday we tied for the smallest range in s p 500 futures of the year. We are getting a sense that last week was all of the big risk, and no we are winding down. Can year yield climbing higher could be the story of the year as we close it out for one more macro perspective. Vonnie we only have a few more s
Sterling in just a few minutes. And of course, the u. K. As well, where weve seen quite a volatile quite a lot of volatility. A little more than we expect it for labor turnover, 7. 2 6 7. 26on billiard million. Now for the extrusive interview. Kathleen i want to welcome our bloomberg audience for this interview with Robert Kaplan, president of the Federal Reserve bank of dallas. It is a windy, rainy day. Clyde you could make it over here. Interesting because you made it clear you are a voter next year. Lets put that on the table. Youve made it clear you are one of the 13 fomc members. You must be one of the dots that sees no rate cuts, no rate hikes unless something happens in 2020. What has to happen . Robert there has to be a Material Change in the outlook, either for better or worse. Ive already got baked into my outlook, we are going to have weak manufacturing next year, sluggish growth, pretty sluggish Business Investment, but with a strong consumer. There would have to be some Ma
Underperformed. Joe i thought the fed would have to cut again. [laughter] japans u. S. Treasury holdings falling 28. 9 billion, the latest number here. 1. 15l by 28. 9 dollars to trillion. This is according to the treasury department. Nonetheless, japan remains on top as the biggest holder of u. S. Treasuries. Caroline lets dive deeper into our market reporters. At the close, what were you watching . Luke scarlet had a good reference with treasuries in the past. Lets look at treasuries in the future. We have a chart showing the 10 year yield in the one year forward yield. The difference between them on the bottom panel here. But we have got here is that throughout the course of the year, people became very much doubting around the time of the first rate cut and the time that the u. S. Dollar offshore yuan broke seven. A strong move downwards in the yellow line and purple line. That is when people started to think we are in for a global recession, world is over. Since then, you see thos
We will hear from qualcomm Ceo Steve Mollenkopf on the race to 5g. First, nasdaq climbing to a record even as the dow sank following disappointing reports from retailers. Some big tech names leading the way on nasdaq were facebook, broadcom, and tesla. Reports that u. S. And chinese negotiators may link the size of tariff rollbacks to terms set during talks in may. I went head over to new york where Bloomberg Cross asset reporter Sarah Ponczek is standing by. Are we ignoring the trade headlines . Sarah i dont know if we are completely ignoring the trade headlines, at least the good ones. That the u. S. Is softening its stance, that did engage in negative outlook. Take a day like yesterday, a bureau chief from cnbc noted that the tone in china is pessimistic. They were unfortunately seeing that the u. S. Was not going to rollback those tariffs. Focused on stimulating their economy. The s p 500 Information Technology index hit a new high, apple hit a new high. The bad news, as you said,