Alan joyce. From a one headline monthly job report can reverberate, not just through stocks, bonds, currencies in the u. S. , but around the world. Wages accelerating, the rate hikes accelerating not just from bonds 8 but for pure but 4 . It was the move down and stocks that caught everyones attention and makes us wonder how this carries through in asia. Typical big story in the u. S. , but anyone watching markets, i am serious, this u. S. Baton has been passed Asian Traders and they will determine what happens next. Yvonne i think there is still some time between now and the game for us to talk about what is happening. Of mentioned a little bit equities, that could do some damage in asia. Kathleen how about halftime, you can watch Justin Timberlake and us too. A new round of earnings come big focus on bonds will dominate wall street this week. Su keenan is here to wrap it up. Bull story,bond stock bulls rattled by fridays close. Lets check it out, 666, an ominous number. In two weeks.
You live from bloombergs asia headquarters in hong kong, and streaming right here. Ts check the markets lets check the markets. To new zealand we go. Is pretty trading much flat, into negative territory. We are watching the kiwi right now, 69 u. S. Cents. This ahead of the rbnz decision tomorrow. Zealand interestrate cuts this week are waning. Investors see of 40 chance of government lowering the official cash rate. Coming down to the opens in australia, japan, and korea. Futures in australia pointing to a lower open as well. At 74ssie dollar holding u. S. Cents, this after jumping to ave or week i fourweek high. Numbers are home due out, so we will be keeping watch to that. Lets get to japan. Futures trading in chicago pointing to a higher open, a stronger yen, 107. 29, but we are expecting firstquarter growth takers out of japan later this hour. Analysts are expecting a slight transition upwards. We will have that breaking news when it comes out this hour. But it was the s p 500 inde
295 souls that are lost at any time. Given the tensions between russia and the west, this could have geopolitical implications. Back with with him in a little while, this is what we know so far. Mh 17, the name of the flight, a co chair flight klm left amsterdam at midday local time. It lost contract while it was in the air space. Come down in pieces near the village, about 50 kilometers from the ukraines border, with russia. These are the latest we have seen from the scene of the debris spread over a wide area. His military was not involved. An Emergency Services rescue worker is reported to saying at least 100 bodies have been found so far. The crew was onboard. Well, we know the flight was only a couple of hours into the journey into the journey from to kuala lumpur. As it took out, one of the trainspotters plane spotters there, i beg you pardon, took this what could have been the last picture of nh seven teen in the air. These are pictures with are getting spree yeah twitter. Of wh
Hbos hit fantasy series gets ready for the fifth series. Welcome to Market Makers. I matt miller. We are going to talk to erik on the phone. He is on location in malaysia. We will get to him in a moment. I will start off with breaking news with new home sales that it and a scarlet fu is in the newsroom with headlines. Scarlet we have new home sales unexpectedly rising to a sevenyear high. 539 thousand, which tops even the most optimistic estimate among economists that we surveyed. This is an increase of 7. 8 from january when economists were looking for a drop of 3. 5 . We should mention that the previous month numbers work also higher. It was originally a decline of. 2 . That has been revised to 4. 4 increase. A 539,000 annualized rate and a sevenyear high for new home sales. It appears that weather did not really stop the buyers necessarily. A lot of people have been anticipating a weaker number than what economists have been looking for. It certainly was a drag on data points we hav
Wasnt supposed to be and it struck a section overhead. That massive section of concrete came crashing down on to the metro rail tracks amazingly, nobody was injured because normally there are people standing or at least walking on that pedestrian bridge overhead. Metro says they were building a test track for the new 7,000 series rail car. They were in the process, it looks like of dropping the crushed rock at the time in support of that project. The crane is used to move on that the track bed. For whatever reason the crane was not in the correct position and made contact with the pedestrian bridge. Roz thats why you had the interruption of Green Line Service for the rush hour. Most of it on this end of the green line between college park no trains running between college park and greenbelt. There le buses bussing people back and forth from those two locations. So that is what weve just learned will be the story, again in the morning. Morning commute there will still be this disruption