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Regionally, as we saw a setback moments ago from Johnson Johnson. They are pausing the study here on their vaccine after one of their patients fell ill. We did of course look at, when it comes to the china 10 year, we are expecting a big dollar bond sale as well, and details as soon as wednesday. Still Holding Around the 670 level at the moment. Lets look at the rest of the market as we count down to those numbers out of china. Ratentioned in indonesia decision later today, jakarta coming online just slightly higher. Because ofpressure vaccine setbacks, and india as well, we could see a lower open in mumbai. A big power outage yesterday impacted volumes. We also saw inflation surge in september. We are watching fx as well, the dollar pretty steady and the rest of asia affects fx lower after we saw weakness in the chinese currency as well, the pboc made it cheaper to short th ....
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Hasl ....
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 Mcconne ....
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanes ....