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15,000. Take a look at the kospi. We are focused on samsung earnings. Samsung warning of a profit slide as this virus squeezes the tech industry. Samsung shares largely after the results came out unchanged. We are watching out for the singapore jobless numbers coming out this hour. 2. 6 , an 11 year high. We see this recovery momentum coming back in offshore chinese stocks. The moving average yesterday when things close, and we are higher here today. Bank of china among them. Dollaryen, a little strength. And some strength for the korean won. Oil remains the story, but take a look at volatility. When it comes to oil contracts, we are leapfrogging of june to july and seeing wild gyrations. We have bounced back after wti auched 10, but we lost quarter of the value when it comes to crude. It looks like volatility will continue. Into julywill roll with the spread of the june and july contracts especially for wti getting rocked by volatility. Tom we will get more on that story in a few minu ....
Lets have a look at what is going on with these markets. We would normally be looking at the nikkei, but tokyo is looking at the public holiday. There we go. Taiwan moving to the upside. Hang seng adding to some of the gains. Overall, we are seeing a mixed bag. Shanghai is lower. The asx 200 not having a good time. Lets have a look at the other Asset Classes which are perhaps on your radar here. Kicking things off with a look at gold, just down a fraction. Investors are sticking to their guns. We have seen it shifted to gold ever since the middle east tensions did come to the fore with the downing of that jet and the killing of general soleimani as well. 1556. S just at the moment 98. X crude, oil holding onto the biggest weekly drop we have seen since july. Easing tensions regarding whats going on in the middle east. On top of that, the pound is a little bit lower. There is the possibility of a rate cut. The bank of england policy ....
Rba on october and december. We have that bad aussie jobs number yesterday. Rishaad if you look at the headline numbers. Lets have a look at the markets. This is what we see now. The Central Bank Governor david the Central Bank Governor, just wanted to mention that. Rishaad of course. You have to talk about the philippine fed governor. David why not . Let the filipino do it. He will be coming up in eight minutes from now. He might bookmark it. Rishaad profiling, thats what it is. [laughter] rishaad lets move and have a look at the markets. Hang seng up to positive. Just below the gain line. Zhang line, signing up to the upside. Feeling that we may see Interest Rate hikes coming cuts, should i say, coming in october november. This is the position for the nikkei to 25. Up 5. 5 . Look at the topics. Doing rathe ....
Out this new silk road. Whats the environment like in hong kong with the overhang of andchina trade war, the political unrest that led to a lot of demonstration in the last couple of weeks . Can carrie lam shift the focus and gain more confidence among the investing committee as well as government officials. Here more than 5000 expected in the next day or so. We have a lot of guest. Lona ng and simon loong are joining us this hour. They try to build smart cities around southeast asia. Talking about the opportunities for the also simon loong joining us in the 11 00 hour. Talk about fintech, commercial banks and the like. Rishaad lets find out what is going on market wise. The position we find ourselves in overall. Looking at the nikkei up half of 1 . Someang seng seeing positivity, asian stocks hedging higher and higher at the moment. We did have that late rally among u. S. Counterparts. Japan, south korea in hong kong. Chinese stocks under pressure over there. S p futures slipping back ....
We begin this hour with all signs pointing to a fourth indictment of donald trump in georgia. Two witnesses say they will appear tuesday before the Fulton County grand jury. Journalist george shady and former georgia Lieutenant GovernorGeorge DuncanClaude Duncan put, quote, i look forward answering the questions around the 2021 election. Republicans should never let honesty be mistaken for weakness. The Fulton County georgia courthouse already on high alert, plastic and metal barricades blocking the building for traffic. Bomb sniffing dogs inspecting media vehicles. Trump meanwhile is proclaiming his innocence on the campaign trail. Here is what he was asked about on a popular plea deal and georgia. Any chan ....