Pips. We are looking at the rest of asia doing this. 1 8kospi index down about of 1 . Some updatese, here on what happened yesterday. Military saying it is on high alert in that part of the world. Today,the top stories just a couple minutes ago, we did get confirmation out of the pboc, adding more funding to the system here. It is trying to guide the economy through a rough patch. A smaller chunk, 2. 95 . Jason. Us now is pleasure to have you. Good morning. Your top thoughts for today. What is top of mind for you . At chinas liquidity guess first the primary liquidity facility, but it does also add to the positive growth picture for china, especially on a relative basis. Covidast because the situation has been continuing in china. When you couple that with Strong Capital flows and improving current accounts balance, it doesnt mean the fundamentals are quite good at the moment. Note, and i guess on that many people say go long against the dollar. Your trade is the currency against the i
A simulcast on bloomberg radio, bloomberg television. We welcome all of you in europe and the challenges there, and we will get to you in a moment, and all of you across this nation. It has been week after week at an 800,000 level, even up towards one million a month ago, and the news slow is simply extraordinary. Jon, you have been way out front on the distinction between the virus and pandemic on the continent of europe over to the united kingdom, and the difference with the United States. How urgent is it for mr. Macron, chancellor merkel, and Prime Minister johnson . Jonathan becoming more difficult, and the problem they are having is localizing the effort. Many people in parts of the country that are facing tougher restrictions are asking, what about everyone else . That is the story in the u. K. As london gets upgraded to a new tier and faces tougher restrictions. As we get deeper into the winter, it is not just about the caseload. I think they are much more keen to emphasize and
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Haslinda we want to show off u. S. Live pictures. Mike pomp
Your portfolio. And sony and microsoft are set to reelite next generation video game console ahead of the holidays, is and most repreorders have already preorders have already sold out. On the round table, my colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, i thought the debate might be the big story of the week until we all woke up friday morning to find out thats president and first lady have covid19, but the market largely shrugged it off. Whats going on . They say that the market hates uncertainty, but investors have been planning for a lot of it. If you look at the vix, the markets fear gauge, theyre expecting a heightened level of volatility all the way through january. So Something Like this comes along, and it shocks the market, but it doesnt shock it, i think, as much as people would have normally if it had just come out of nowhere. And theres also stimulus talk going on, and actually i wouldnt say in the background. That was taking up a lot of attention this week
Week as traders rotated in and out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even g