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Hong kong recoils from one of its most violent weekends yet. Vandals attacked across the city. More pressure on president donald trump, he may be faced by a second whistleblower as impeachment drama moves on. Kathleen lets get onto the asian markets. A bit of an update on the u. S. On friday after the jobs report was good enough to make investors by more stocks. How does asia look this morning . Thana after that better expected u. S. Data ahead of the weekend, it looks like the focus for investors is squarely back on trade with the latest headlines saying the china side is looking to narrow the scope of discussion, not providing any positivity ahead of the talks. It is looking like asia trade will get started to a muted and mixed open. China and hong kong markets are closed in australia is on holiday, which is why we might see some trading. Last week, the nikkei fell 1. 5 . Osby futures fell last week. To the trade headlines, markets are digesting the hong kong protests dragging on as ....
Slowing. Is said to be china is trying to funnel more credit to private companies. We will assess the implications in beijing. A quick check of our markets close in the u. S. It was a bit of a mixed picture. We saw the dow gained 50 points. The s p 500 erased this mornings gains. Fed officials with a little bit of caution about future rate cuts. To mention we have some soft manufacturing pmi numbers. That did not help sentiment. Cared materials and Health Leading the declines after fluctuated between gains and losses. That fell 0. 4 . U. S. Futures at the moment not doing much. The focus right now is on jackson hole. Lets see how we are shaping up. Steady as we go. Asian futures not doing much when it comes to the potential for how cash trade may start. We are waiting for cues from jackson hole as well as the g7 meeting this weekend. We also have today a busy day of earnings from china as well as from hong kong. We are going to ge ....
We will check the mood live in beijing. Not politics daunting markets, the outcomes not exactly the results we were expecting. We are going to be delving into the in depth in the next few hours. I want to take a quick look at a close in the u. S. Market on friday. Not surprising that after a fed meeting, continued concerns over what was coming out of the u. N. , tensions with north korea, there was about a mixed close. You can see that the dow was just down ever so slightly. Flat, fractional gains in the s p 500 and the snp s p 500e up. Not a lot of direction for us. We have a lot hanging when it comes to the big week in washington. Centralbank speakers set to speak, as well. New zealand not a whole big reaction to this weekends election when it comes to stocks. We are continuing to see the kiwi dollar, 7310 weakening from the third of desperate 3 the surprise outcome here as we look ahead to those Coalition Talks. Australia, we ....