Despite the fact that in todays geopolitical conditions the opportunities for maintaining contacts and developing relations are very limited, nevertheless, it cannot but cause satisfaction that our relations with many European Countries are maintained and developing, one of these countries is hungary, between over the past decade, hungary and russia have been built exclusively on the basis of taking into account each others interests, relying on everything positive that we inherited from the past, this concerns a significant number of areas of activity, primarily the Economic Situation in the world; according to vladimir putin, last year russia and hungary had a significant increase in trade and economic interaction of more than 80 . In turn, viktor orban said that his country never wanted to confront russia, on the contrary, it always planned to expand contacts. The russian leader, the chief guest of the third forum of international cooperation, one train, one way, will speak at the O
Anna very good morning. 6 00 here in london. 7 00 if you are joining from paris or berlin. Not a lot of movement in the bull market. 2018 a seen so far in surge in risk assets. Morgan stanley talks about euphoria. Others talk about a melt in equity markets. Equity markets in asia in the wake of the bull markets, msci asiapacific down. Perhaps taking a breather. Speed anddo with the pace of that move. We will talk about that more as we go through the program. Lets talk about what is going on in currency markets. The yen is on the move. For ase currency is up second day. It was described by many strategists and economists as a small tweak to boj policy, not it not a change in their qe strategy. We do see a second day of moves for the japanese currency. Crude oil up. Of thellows a strong set moves for energy markets. We see 2. 5 gains. This all comes on the back of u. S. Industry data which signals that crude straps and dropped for an eight week. That may be the biggest decline since 1999
6 00 here in london. Lets get to the markets. We are without the volumes from the United States during yesterdays sessions. King date we had no trading in stocks or treasuries. We are getting back into those today. Msci asiapacific by 0. 4 . General picture in asia continues a positive one, continuing the best start since 2006. The dollar against the again , we saw the again being pushed up. Have halted five days of advances in the japanese currency partly because of what we heard from the japanese finance minister. Moves in fx markets are a problem. Price, over 70 a barrel, even though it is retreating. Fx is going to be a focus , what happens next with the pboc, that bank of japan, and the bank of korea. Traders have been spun into a whole new momentum. Record long positions on the euro. , two is a counterbalance sides to this market. The long positions are the longest we have seen. It is estonia focusing on bond purchases, they could end after september. Dramatize theover situation.
Anna very good morning, this is bloomberg daybreak europe. Were live at the economic form in davos. Francine lacqua joins us bright and early from davos. Francine good morning. On thef focus will be tariffs that the Trump Administration has imposed. We are trying to get to the bottom of the chinese allegations. The biggest, the person that makes the most of solar panels is here in davos. Later today we will focus on banking. The blackrock vicechairman will be joining us. We are looking forward to that interview because it is about trade. We havent allstar panel talking about the future of finance. AndPrime Minister of canada india speak. Theresa may and donald trump on friday. Anna it will be a packed lineup. Thank you very much. We will return to francine shortly for our first interview. Lets get the markets. This is what has been happening over in asia while you have been sleeping. Msci asiapacific, up 0. 8 . New highs for these asian equity markets. Concerns, focusing instead on the
Heinekens fouryear earnings, but the dutch brewer forecasts a lower marketing ahead impacting the environment. What were striving for is around 25 business points extension due to residual due to the fact of major integration in brazil at midyear. And the shares on the rise in one of the largest Pension Funds are teaming up in a potential 10 billion euro lid for a Specialty Chemicals unit and President Donald Trump prepares to unveil his 200 billion infrastructure plan relying on local government to rely on the heavy lifting. Good morning, everyone and happy monday, well probably have to pull you away from the Winter Olympics to see how the markets are doing, i had to do that myself. The picture is one of green. As you can see, everything is looking a lot more positive compared to the moves overnight. Overnight trading closed for the session, but the other indices were spiking and what that has meant, stoxx 600 opening up very strongly, about one hour, trading up 1. 6 . Lets look at th