Later on cnbc. Rbs posts a forecast meeting profit the british lender dials down the return target for the medium term looking for the market and what feels like a good return. We believe 9 to 11 represents a good share for shareholders. And a concern the results from the coronavirus will be felt for mores well talk to the ceo later on cnbc the story that has been gripping markets, chinese Officials Say over 63,000 people have now contracted the coronavirus, while 1,383 people have died japan has confirmed the first fatality and over 200 people on board a cruise ship have been infected lets get out live to hong kong with all the action. Emily, give us the latest on what is now known as covid19, coronavirus. Thats right. We are keeping track of the developments of the virus. Here with the latest tally of over 64,000. As far as that cruise liner in japan, they are still in the process of testing 3,700 on board. For the first time in four days, they are going to start letting people off t
Pressure mounts. Shery the volcano in the philippines shots schools and the Stock Exchange, warning of a violent explosion. Australian markets have opened for trade. Lets turn to sophie. Sophie stocks opened to the downside, off. 2 after the best week of the asx 200 since february. We are seeing beach energy under pressure but Australian Oil companies should outperform in 2020, although looking for caution around oil prices in the back half of the year given expectations for additional supply which has taken the wind out of oils rally. The oil rally. Oil had the worst week since july. Lets flip the board to check in on cable. We are seeing cable under pressure. Looking at how it is doing, moving towards the 130 scandal. 130 scandal. Here,g into the terminal want to give you the heads up the Philippines Stock Exchange has been close to their rolling along with schools and the middle miller the Manila Airport in the week. Here is where philippine stocks are. This is asias worst performer
Lets get your global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to munich to paris washington to sarasota, florida and new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. There are questions about transparency for china. Rishaad salamat joins us from hong kong. Walk us through some of the latest. Now with63,000 cases the death toll up by 121, but the inconsistency in the numbers has led to a lot of questions. Some of them are not being answered, and that has led to people thinking that this disease is not really going away at the moment. We had some optimism a couple of days ago, but that has receded somewhat. Weve also got bickering between washington and beijing. The u. S. Saying they have been denied that. On a microeconomic level, weve got companies such as Fiat Chrysler halting production in one of its plants in serbia. They cant get enough parts out of china. If you want to buy a barbie doll in the future
But a new target seems to be its retail customers. First, to our top story. That is last year, tim cook stunned investors when my company readjusted its forecast due to struggles in china. What a difference a year makes. Official Government Data shows the apple smartphone shipments in china grew 19 yearoveryear in december. That marked a big jump from previous months. It is particularly remarkable when shipments of phones of all brands were down 14 in the same period in china. For more, i want to bring in our reporter. Are you surprised by the amount of bullishness we have on apple and the iphone shipments in china . Certainly in china, that number is a surprise. Engine broad bush push in china to have consumers by phones instead of iphones. Has of the trade tension come down in recent months. Maybe that has something to do with it. I think more to the point, a device like the iphone 11 is a little cheaper, the battery life is very long. The photos you can take are better than the prev
Nejra we wake up to retaliation from iran. We hear that this isnt war. Here are some of the market moves. Brent paring some of those gains. Gold strongly bid. Still firmly bid on that safe haven. Dollaryen as well trading a bit to the downside. We are coming off the highs for the yen. We switch the board and take a look at the 10 year treasury yields. We saw quite a precipitous drop at one point in the Asian Session, down 11 basis points. The 10 year treasury yield has actually dropped to below a trend line we have seen since september. We see asian equities on the back foot as well, but generally, equities paring some of the losses. After iran has said that this is the way,also, by volatility was created by the news of the boeing crash. When we got the technical issue headlines, we saw the market stabilize a little bit. A lot to digest. Iran retaliation. Iran has fired rockets at two iraqi airbases housing u. S. Troops in response to the killing of the general. Irans revolutionary gua