Characters in a bid to have wider debate. Kathleen i dont care how many twitter characters you have come it would take a massive tweet to tweet out so much in Janet Yellens speech today. When you look at the citations, the charts, 20,000 pages. I think she had one message, the fed is going to hike again, even if inflation is below target. Yvonne pretty much. I wonder what the president thinks about that twitter development. But then again, you mentioned about janet yellen. She is onopart a twopart mission, normalizing the Balance Sheet. We saw the market move on this, futures up to 70 for december. Kathleen lets look at what the stock market it, rather muted, but everyone digesting what janet yellen said. You have the dow closed flat. 22,284. 0. 2 of500 gained about a point. The nasdaq up nine points to 6,380. Yvonne big movers were in the bond market, yields heading higher and the dollar. Lets see how things are faring in new zealand. Just getting underway in the last hour two hours,
No one seems that eager to put in trade, reluctant but nervous obviously. Jakarta is lower by more than 1 and htc also down. We go across to singapore straits, malaysia and thailand, all down by. 2 . Also, newspi zealand is up currently by went one percent. The rest are booking the probably up by. 1 . The rest are looking up. As john was mentioning, asia pacific markets are being driven by pieces of data. Signs of manufacturing slowing. Stephen engle is in beijing for us. Is there a danger that we read too much into it . Mean, we are drawing a lot of conclusions from a slight dip down in the flash number. This is the preliminary number for manufacturing pmi for december from hsbc and economics again. Remember, this is a private survey, not the official survey. Private companies in the manufacturing space in china, about 400 or so companies, where the official pmi am leslie looks at pmi mostly looks manufacturing. But it did sink down to a three month low with this flash number. If the.