Debts are about 700,000. The Trump Administration dabs up its attack on chinese tech. Mike pompeo wants to cut ties well beyond just a campaign against tiktok. Alert on start with an the bloomberg. South korea announcing its surplus widening to 6. 88 billion. This is a recovery from the 2 billion level we saw in the previous month and recovery after logging a deficit in april. When it comes to the trade surplus, widening to 5. 867 billion. We have seen south korean exports slump, slowing in july. We are seeing an economic recovery in china and demand for semiconductors. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a check of the markets. What should we be watching out for in south korea today . Sophie we have more data coming out. Tourism revenue falling for a fifth consecutive month so the focus will be on the consumer sector. Of o have the likes reporting earnings. Consumer sentiment has rebounded for a third month in south korea and online spending will continue to be key as the
The play was just extraordinary. Alix that was the winning moment at the end of the whole game. David and he didnt get up. Alix i do not blame him. The real action is going to be looking at the dollar, kind of around a two week low. Other than that, steady as she goes. The 10 year yield back by about three basis points. Crude, if itnt out is policy steady as she goes, that means more saudi production cuts. Crews wanting to kiss that 60 for crudeg wanting to kiss that six together level, waiting for toio draghi crude wanting kiss that 60 level, waiting for mario draghi. We begin with china, where the country faces and import and export deceleration in the month of august. Bloombergs enda curran has more. Just how bad was it . Pretty bad because economists were expecting exports would have grown. We had a contraction of 1. 1 , and there was evidence of a big slump in shipments to the u. S. , even as exports to europe grew, so it was clear the trade war affected all of that. The big fear
Day. It is definitely a top heavy move. You see it up 0. 8 . The equal weighted up too. Nasdaq up by a full percent. Alphabet as mentioned popping this morning. It is now up about 4. 3 and the biggest upside contributor. Apple is ahead as well, 1. 4 on reports that apple might use googles zoo a. I. Capabilities in the iphone. Crude up another the high since halloween. It leads to the talk of the tape. Based on a goldilocks economy, a. I. Excitement and prospect of an easier fed, is the playbook changing . Lets ask adam parker, Research Founder and ceo at a cnbc contributor so. Adam, yeah, those have been the narrative threads that worked pretty well. Almost no pullbacks. Some pockets in the market in the last couple of weeks and things have cooled off but not fallen apart. Where does that leave us . I think the bull case is still intact, right . If the average company can have gross Margin Expansion and if i start thinking earnings will be up for the next few years well be ahead 25 ver
Breath. Reports about the scrapping yield curve control along with buying of etfs and all with rate hike potentially. Lets look at how markets and japan are faring. You get the sense regardless of the normalization of policy, markets believe the nikkei can run higher. The fundamentals are intact amid all this Corporate Governance improvement. We saw it decline in the morning session but it did close 2. 7 higher just yesterday. We see in the options market, for example, the contracts for the strike price above the 41,000 level. Those were actively traded. Regardless of the normalization we see today, we still need to see negative real rates persist. That will mean yields will take a while to climb in japan. Between the u. S. And japan, given the yield gap, that will put pressure on the yen. The yen has been well behaved. You feel the sense that the feds move will matter more for this currency pair. Lets take a look at how it has been faring since the past four months. Based on the impli
Highest level since 2006. So were going back an additional year than what we have been looking at recently. 2year is down 5. 18. The 10year note is yielding 4. 8 and the 30year has ticked a little higher at 4. 95. Meantime President Biden landing in israel early this morning and met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Nbcs jay gray joins us this morning from tel aviv. Jay. Reporter hey, there, good morning, guys. Yeah, the president meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu as you talked about and later today with the war council. Who hell not be meeting with is his arab allies. There will be no trip to jordan. That was something that was planned there. That was considered a pretty important part of the visit in that the president had hoped to talk about tamping down concerns that are growing right now over this becoming a much wider military conflict. You know theyre already growing escalation alord the border of lebanon. There have been casualties of soldiers on both sides. Israel