Hong kong recoils from one of its most violent weekends yet. Vandals attacked across the city. More pressure on president donald trump, he may be faced by a second whistleblower as impeachment drama moves on. Kathleen lets get onto the asian markets. A bit of an update on the u. S. On friday after the jobs report was good enough to make investors by more stocks. How does asia look this morning . Thana after that better expected u. S. Data ahead of the weekend, it looks like the focus for investors is squarely back on trade with the latest headlines saying the china side is looking to narrow the scope of discussion, not providing any positivity ahead of the talks. It is looking like asia trade will get started to a muted and mixed open. China and hong kong markets are closed in australia is on holiday, which is why we might see some trading. Last week, the nikkei fell 1. 5 . Osby futures fell last week. To the trade headlines, markets are digesting the hong kong protests dragging on as
Previous leader. That is certainly something we are going to watch out for here today when it comes to how that plays out in malaysia. Overall risk sentiment is cautious. David it doesnt help that markets here in hong kong and china, you have liquidity issues look exacerbating these issues. Here are your equity markets that are open. On the lighter side of things. Down about. 25 . Kospi up. 25 . Putting anything else together, we are on a threeweek streak of declines for asian equities. S p futures as you can see,. 5 down, pretty much where it has been holding all morning. Have a look at some other things we are tracking here as well. We talked about dollaryen today, which we will get to in a moment. Southeast asia is looking like this. The latest market to open is indonesia. A big day friday for philippines, reversing some of that now. Malaysia also little higher. Southeast asia as well, mx is your ticker for this benchmark. Also on three weeks of decline. As promised, look at dollary
Says the use of force may be needed in syria if a chemical weapon attack on civilians is confirmed. This as activists say that Government Forces continue to bombard damascus suburbs. Good morning, everyone. Youre watching a brandnew edition of Worldwide Exchange. I want to bring you eurozone august flash pmis. We see the eurozone private sector growth beating forecasts in july, for the august number we got the pmi of flash at 51. 3. This is versus a forecast of 51. 2. So that beats expectations. The july manufacturing pmi was 50. 3. The august services pmi flash was estimated at 51. And no, the estimates, sorry, 51. The forecast was for 50. 2. So, again, that looks to be better than expectations and this is, again, an uptick from the month of july. And this comes after we got those really strong numbers out of germany, slightly mixed numbers coming out of france. Joining us from singapore is richard jerron, chief economist at bank of singapore. Your initial response to those numbers .