Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t
Standing declines. Airbus orders takeoff leaving boeing by 30 billion to zero. The ceo. Kathleen lets take a quick look at how the u. S. Stocks ended the session. Modest gains. Modest gains better than none at all as trade wars tensions swirl. Across the board for the dow jones industrial, s p 500 up fractionally. 22 points on the dow. Three points on the s p 500. It was the nasdaq that had the best performance, up 6 10 of 1 . It was based largely on the faang stocks. In particular, facebook saying it is getting ready to unveil a cryptocurrency. Investors like that. The s p futures are indicating positive ground to be taken. However not as much as i was an hour ago. As for treasuries, interesting Economic News showing more signs that a trade war is have an impact. Treasuries ended at 2. 09 on the 10 year. Close to the 2 yield. One from the National Association of homebuilders saying it looks like tariffs are weighing on the prices of building materials. We also saw a Manufacturing Inde
Perceptions around what the boj will do in its today meeting which concludes next week. We are seeing firming continuing in the japanese currency. Yesterday we saw the country avoid a technical recession. Better than what economists had been expecting. Perhaps we could see a shift in march. It seems for a economists, by april. It depends on what comes out of the wage negotiations. That is something that could force the boj to end its negative interestrate policy this month if the numbers come in pretty strong. That is what local media is saying here. Negotiations wrap up wednesday and the first estimate on friday ahead of the wrapup of the meeting the following tuesday. That is the japan outlook. We had a drop in yesterdays session. Korea coming online looking better so far. Range bound. Doing better than wall street. U. S. Stocks we saw inching lower. It is the countdown to the u. S. Inflation print still expected to be in the 3 territory. Core reading, three point 7 according to our
Overnight we had the big spike in treasuries. Certainly putting Dollar Strength into the story and putting pressure on a lot of asian currencies. The japanese yen is a true standout. We had seen the weak in helping some of japans exporters of late. Today though, that story is not translating. Youre seeing them move in the wall street session, weakness in the s p 500, closing down 1 . The nasdaq dropping, in turn, you see that reflected so far in the session. We also have to open for korean equities. We can see in the open here, a drop at the open. Its not just a story of you the u. S. Inflation print that came in hotter than expected. We also saw south koreas president suffered a big loss in the parliamentary vote and that is playing into the dynamic given the opposition gained slots. The president is looking to be in a weaker position for the last three years of his term. We just had some trade data. The first 10 days of april. We saw exports rising more than 20 22 percent, actually,
5 00 a. M. In london. Vomiting of im yousef. Tracy and im tracy alloway. Yousef we saw that record again in the yuan. Here are the numbers as they came in. The line and white, that is your expectation. Re in was in mind, 3 trillion the key level we were looking at. That is your line in red there. Anything below that would have led to more capital outflows, and the consensus was policymakers would move to make go below they did not that redline. Also highlighted in blue, that is your spread between onshore and offshore, which again, as you can see, take a look at that pop we saw last week. That, of course, is the focus on the Global Investment themes we discussed. Tracy i love this choice, because some a yousef, so far this year the chinese money markets have been then the story have been the story of 2017. Yousef were looking at the u. S. Economic data. Talk us through the u. S. Close, the market reaction. Tracy sure. We saw some fireworks friday. We have that jobs report. That propell