Highest close, though, since 1996. Good morning, everybody. This is daybreak europe. Matt good morning, anna. Guy good morning, matt. Nna good morning, matt lets talk about whats going on in spain. The chartier tracks the biggest etf that tracks spanish equities and the appetite weve got for that. The president of catalonia seeking talks with Central Government in madrid, not mentioning unilateral independence. That is sending more money into this etf that tracks spanish stocks. We have seen money coming out of. His particular etf we signed trading at volumes that were 700 of normal daily volumes, and we saw the euro gain a little bit. You will see that the euro is Still Holding on to some of those gains. Its funny, i was looking at the exact same etf here on my screen as well. Also, the euro, as you mentioned, holding on to some of the gains. Take a look at the risk radar this morning. I am going to kick it off with the euro. Spain front and center as far as what is going on. In dolla
In hong kong it is just past 8 00 a. M. The am julie hyman and political stories continue apace in the United States where the ands today was on mexico that cancellation of a meeting with donald trump and theresa may coming over as well on earning season in the u. S. A lot for investors. Yvonne absolutely. Picture on wall street, it is mixed. Relatively leading into asia, we are seeing positive asian stocks. Positive move in asia ahead of the holiday. We do have the nikkei 225 opening higher. Extending the gains that we saw on thursday when it was higher over 1 . Trading could be choppy given the stronger dollar and the mixed picture on wall street. Tensions between the u. S. And mexico over the border wall and markets in china, south korea, vietnam closed today along with partial trade in Hong Kong Hong kong, singapore. We have stocks in wellington snapping a two day rise. Australia adding. 5 after coming back from a thursday holiday. We do have miners dragging today on the index. The
Justice department. Eating straight to the market close, we do not have an open in many parts of the region because it is the Lunar New Year holiday. Having a look at what is going on in commodities and more. Mentioned, we have the markets like china, hong kong, and others closed due to the Lunar New Year holiday. Commentseing trumps weighing on investor anxiety and you are seeing consumer and material stocks during the most on the regional benchmark. Japanese automakers toyota and honda among the largest lacquers and in the backdrop we do have gold holding two days of gains and positive in oil after the overnight movements. Electronics, autos and machinery makers looking at the yen gained some ground. Its forecasted dropping as much as 18 . The biggest decline on the intake nikkei and the topix. It dropped its operating profit outlook two 70 . A negative here and it is likely to persist if there is not a drastic change in reggie according to analysts. Direction, we have sydney moto ch
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