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postdivorceier says trade talks are underway, and the u.k. much must offer more. we have breaking news in south korea. it was a data dump morning. the surplus widening. year on year, $6 billion. industrial output rising 2.7%. this is also for the month of august. that is well above what economists had estimated at a gain of 1.3%. the number to really watch is the factory output, the industrial output, 2.7%. we did see a revision and inkage or decline, 0.2% down 0.2% in prior months. a lot of the focus is on how these numbers have been changing with the geopolitical tensions in north korea. is that going to dampen consumer demands and outlook for south korea? yvonne: mark: yvonne: it is interesting, month on month numbers in industrial production, i saw weakness in the month of august, less than expected at 0.4%. we saw that survey this morning, looking less positive when it comes to manufacturing, as well as the export growth manufacturing. export growth, we saw ....
and kevin worsht leading the fed but critics say he would be too hawkish. reporter: a little bit of a mix between gossip and news. ok. as i mentioned, you know, the market here, the equity market were open but the bond markets were closed. i want to pull up a chart and kick us off. it shows you despite the rally that we ve seen in stocks in asia as seen as the mici asia pacific index, it s still the cheapest in 15 years when compared to the s & p. this is represented by the white line. despite the rally in asia and the rally here and in the u.s., in fact, asia is just getting cheaper an cheaper. and that s got more investors saying i m going to buy into the asia pacific market. yvonne: seems like we ve got the global gross optimism especially in japan. e ll see what happens with japan after correia. we re down by the .10 of 1% for the index 50 following what we saw, the downside with some of the major indexes. holding on to the four-month load as we wait for coalition t ....
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manipulation of social media and says they were caught flat-footed. betty: speaking about russia, it within the last hour a new headline about george papadopoulos, the former trump advisor. some claims he made in an email stating top trump campaign officials agreed to a pre-election meeting with representatives of russian president vladimir putin. we saw inrevelation the last couple minutes, bolstering the claim and making it harder for the trump administration to distance itself when it comes to these meddling issues, as well as collusion allegations we continue to see. how we have to look at this with a grain of salt, the details still unclear. betty: it is still a little murky. let s get clarification with megan murphy, our bloomberg s nest week editor and washington bureau chief. how significant are these new claims? every revelation that comes out of this nature is significant in that it furthers what we know, expands on the investigation in terms of what is ou ....
with the critical model three delays, proving hotter than expected. a.m., thisst past 9 is daybreak astray which is an hour away. in newust after 6 p.m. york. i m betty liu and we will be looking at the action on wall street and how that will play into the asia-pacific trading. heidi, no doubt we are following these headlines coming across about jay powell being named the next fed chairman. these are all according to reports of the wall street journal coming out first with these reports. haidi, given the speculation over the last several days? haidi: absolutely. as you mentioned, the muted response from u.s. markets. it just surging a little bit higher. powell essene is the next best thing to continuity other than janet yellen staying at her job. betty: it is safe to say some economists coming out that it is yellen 2.0. maybe there will be not a lot of change. why the markets didn t react too much. equity markets and the training trading session. mostly shrugging off th ....