Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes, a record here in taiwan. The hong kong protests really resonated with the electorate, of ahat led to a rebuffing push for closer economic ties. The question is what is the future of the Opposition Party that got routed . Theyve lost four of the last six president ial elections, and they need a you voice for the longer eat for the younger electorate. Finally, the economy. Tot also propelled tsai
Based on the risk off the further markets. It is time now for global exchange. We will bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Where to begin in asia, the coronavirus continues to spread in china, with the number of confirmed cases climbing above 75,000. Engle. Me is Stephen Stephen for the second time in about a week, china has rejigged its methodology for how to classify confirmed cases of the coronavirus in china, that has led to this now becoming a bit of a global crisis. We are seeing more speculation that the data we are getting is we necessarily reliable, or are seeing a significant dropoff in the number of confirmed cases. In hubei province, just 349 new cases reported overnight. Is that because of the new methodology, or do they have the containment efforts under control . That is raising a lot of confusion and questions. Also, it adds to suspicion that officials in china may be prema
A lot of focus on the u. S. Jobs report we saw in the u. S. As you look at the pound its 1. 3003, we need to look at the trade relationship and negotiations between the u. K. And eu. Up versus dollar currently 109. 68. Coming up we talk all things geopolitical and geopolitical at 11 00 a. M. London time. Lets get the first word news in new york city. Volcanoe philippines, a eruption is prompting evacuation of thousands. Triggered earthquakes and spewed ash across manila. Markets were suspended, experts morning a hazardous explosion explosive eruption is possible within hours or days. U. S. , the nation is looking at reviving semiannual talks with china. There will be used to discuss the economic relationship between the company countries. Today, chinas vice premier heading to the u. S. To sign phase one of the trade deal on wednesday. Many shortcomings, that is the conclusion of the report during hong kongs recent unrest. The investigation finding a lack of communication, no clear guid
Maintaining ties with venezuelas president. And sprint to the finish. Deutsche telekom sees profit rising as the companys tmobile unit edges closer to stealing a landmark u. S. Deal. Just under 15 minutes away from the start of cash equity trading in europe, lets take a look. Irst off at futures green arrows across the board put futures up. 7 , more than 50 points right now on that optimism about more stimulus injections coming from beijing. Take a look at u. S. Futures for the second trading day of the week. Remember, shorten holiday week. Still have a solid seven hours until u. S. Markets start to think about opening up. Throughout the morning. Lets take a look at the risk indicators we can glean from the gm them here. In terms of equity indexes, you can see in asia, we have decent gains here. In terms of forex, we can see a intle bit of a mixed picture terms of the hong kong dollar and japanese yen, little changed, but we do see some yen strength. You see that in some other assets a
Coronavirus. Obamaso sell barack we saw apple yesterday or the day before. We saw ashares selloff because vacated senate seat. It is difficult to do guidance. Fly up tol apply puma says the negative impact from coronavirus on sales will four paying customers on the be felt. Ship it uses to fly astronauts we dont have a number yet. Into space. It is a very fluid situation is it opens the way for private a lot of companies try to figure space tourism, but there is no out what it means for their price tag yet. Globalist when he four hours per supply chains and when it will quicktake. And in pick up again. We are watching individual stocks across the board. Stocks in europe being supported by the idea that the pboc and daylobal news 24 hours per officials in china will do more quicktake. On to spur the economy. 09. T crude at 58 francine russia temporarily we will speak with a deutsche banned the chinese from entry. Telekom chief executive. The who says beijings continuing efforts in hubei