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Has rallied higher. I will give you comments from former treasury secretary Larry Summers. He spoke to david westin about a much higher rate. Bloomberg dollar index continues to gain ground. It has been a lot of strength of the past four weeks as the yields get higher they are more attractive to Foreign Investors who needed to buy dollars to access that. Crude, very interesting traded today. We have inventories a little bit light. Nonetheless, we see nymex crude below 80 a barrel. West texas intermediate going for 79. 84. I want to talk about the housing sector first. 30year Mortgage Rates hav...

If the uptick was a blip. In terms of the nikkei 225, a stronger again so it is extending a slump. The boj may exit negative rates perhaps in march especially on the back of what it did not do yesterday. It did not intervene when the topix slumped to percent. Typically it has jumped in prop up the market at 2 . It is about china and the lackluster performance of vanke causing a lot of trepidation as well as concerns in the Property Market yet again. Moodys downgrading it to junk. The yen is the one we are tracking at this point as it continues to rally. It has outdone every g10 currency this m...

Haidi welcome to daybreak australia. Markets have just come online. Annabelle im Annabelle Droulers in tokyo. We are coming down to asias Major Trading opens and the top stories. Traders await jay powells congressional testimony and the u. S. Jobs report. Elon musk using the worlds richest person crown to jeff bezos as tesla slumps. Paul also ahead, haidi also ahead, the Supreme Court puts an end to attempts to keep donald trump off state ballots. Im Stephen Engle in snowy beijing for the opening of the National Peoples congress. An openin a warning not to invest in china underscores the leade...

Those deflationary pressures, gdp target front and center, will it be 5 . Could it be below five, some say unlikely, but we wait and see in terms of where the target would be. It is also about the fed. We have fed chairman Jerome Powell set for testimony expected to reiterate the fed is in no hurry to cut rates, it is likely to lean towards a hawkish tone. We heard from many officials saying that the fed can afford to wait given the data, given strong inflation remain sticky, and the economy remains resilient. The fed, as well as china, expected to did cake dictate sentiment in the market. Als...

questions about the six-game suspension issued to deshaun watson in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations. why it won't cost him most of his $230 million contract. welcome to "the lead," i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper on this monday. and we start with our world lead. and dramatic warnings from china after sources confirmed that house speaker nancy pelosi will visit taiwan during her trip to asia. it was not listed on her public itinerary when she landed in singapore this morning, but if she makes the trip she's the first house spike speaker into 25 years to visit taiwan. a...