Where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to beijing to london to washington our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Start right now with hong kong with the citys financial chief said the economys set to contract in fourth quarter. Jeff joins us from hong kong on the telephonement welcome. Give us an update where we are. And how the economys doing there. Jeff good morning to you. The economy is hoping to see some kind of stabilization in the coming weeks. But the damage has already been done in the third and fourth quarters this year. We have only just seen a relative easing in the protests. But we are a long way from having an all clear or any kind of resolution to the political standoff. That means that the tourists and the spending that are the core of this economy, they are not going to return soon. We may see stabilization but it will be lower levels. David thank you so much. Jeff black reporting from hong kon
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
Thought that was a little unfair given that i havent given the panel advanced warning of that. Thats right. So im joined here by olivier now at the peterson institute. Loretta loretta mester. And paul krugman, the economist at City University of new york and columnist for the new york times. Krugman is the guy who makes all journalists nervous because he seems to be more productive than the rest of us and thats kind of frightening given that he does all these other things on the side, but we ask discuss those things later. I wanted to start by asking each of the panelists what they took afwra the away from the conversation we had this morning. I want to start with olivier who makes the observation in the slide you see behind us thats been made about how the wage phillips curve behaves perhaps as one might have expected, but prices arent rising. So the question is what the hell is going on . Okay. So i had prepared a slide in anticipation. I think it has survived the previous three hour
Of a total breakdown. And technical glitches marred the launch of disneys new streaming service. To breakingirst, news from south korea. The jobless rate coming in at 3. 5 . This is in line with estimates but slightly higher than the previous month. Add 419 thousand jobs in october, more than they did in september, which was already quite a strong job scheme number. Pe number. That is helping to offset some losses,anufacturing job not to mention declines in retail employment. In south korea they have been really supported by fiscal policy. In budget is helping growth the public sector. Right now, the jobless rate coming in at 3. 5 for the month of october. Lets see how we are doing in the markets in asia. Overnight,d messages hearing from President Trump in new york, threatening the possibility of more tariffs if phase one trade deal doesnt get done. Hasydney, as that market just come online, new zealand,. Rading is underway with Fourth Quarter Inflation Expectations, it plummeted off
We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from london to brussels, istanbul and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin in turkey. The country has agreed to tip a rarely halt its military offensive in northern syria, but it is not withdrawing its forces. The lifting of sanctions may come with a permanent ceasefire. Theence with implementation of a ceasefire, the United States will not impose any further sanctions on turkeys, and once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, the president has agreed to withdraw the economic sanctions that were imposed. Joins usimin demokan from istanbul. How does this play out over the next 24 hours . Simikin turkey is expecting the kurdish fighters to withdraw from the areas. President erdogan said he expects to create a safe zone once those kurdish militants have left the area, and the safe zone will be 444 kalama theres long. 444 kilometers we also expect turk