Korea, but now we had subsaharan africa. Anotherhad nigeria, and area of great concern is iran. These are countries that do not have the same kind of Public Health infrastructure, the some kind of control over their border. If you start to see transmission and those areas, those will be the ones that cause spread to other countries and a greater rate than we are already seeing q8 david you are seeing already. Fed going tos the do about the coronavirus . Michael fear is in the saddle. We have gone from maybe the fed might have to cut because of this to three full rate cuts and a better than 50 chance of a forth over the next year. The only trouble with this theory and the idea they be they do an emergency rate cut is correlating with central bankers around the world is that central bankers do not seem to agree. The head of the Buddhist Bank has been the head of bundesbank whose country has been affected by this says we have enough accommodation and at this point there is nothing Central
South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei
Successful launch, the apple card issued by Goldman Sachs hit some snags in 2019. First, our top story. Tech continues to be the outperformer in 2019 with the nasdaq on track for its best year since 2013. The tech index is up 35 , just 3 shy of 2013s banner year. It is largely due to apple and the chipmakers. Joining us is abigail doolittle. I am showing on my terminal a chart about divergence, winners and losers. What is your take away from the divergence . Abigail the clear winners, apple and facebook. Apple up 85 , facebook up 55 . The others up closer to 20 or 30 . Still great gains. And the complex is overall higher. 2019 really the year of record highs. The complex overall, the last record high overall back in july but those two Companies Really pulling away with the lead, apple and facebook. Apple putting in record high after record high. And behind that buying power, you have to think it had something to do with 2018. Because between october and december 2018, apple fell about
Well tell you what it is and what to expect in the new decade but first its the final countdown cool. The whole show lousy song yeah . Its a miserable song right up there with the eye of the tiger which is one of the five worst songs of all time. Great movie. The movie it was in jordans bulls were introduced to this song the other night, werent they . Good memories for me. Okay. Well, it is the final countdown nonetheless, guy, whether you like it or not its the final countdown theres one trading day left before we ring in the new year and a new decade and its looking to be an ugly end to the year with stocks posting the biggest losses in four weeks so should you hold off on popping the bubbly or was today just a minor blip i think its a minor blip i thought the market was going to go down since september i said it earlier that december is going to be at best a choppy month but at worst a volatile month. Didnt pan out that way. Look, i do think that things have gotten ahead of themselv
Some of the other Asset Classes are moving on a bit of news. Sterling falling, erasing the gains we saw for the currency before the general election. Going below 1. 31. The thai baht is one of the strongest currencies in this part of the world, Interest Rate. Bit later coming out Oil Inventory story, that is not the oil price but we have 60 or thereabouts. That is reflective of a growth in u. S. Inventory. Bitcoin, continuing to be there even though it is higher. A report says the cryptocurrency perhaps peaked two years ago and on top of that we have a lot of rivals out there. There is a crypto scam in china which is seeing unwinding of the action. That is where we are from these Asset Classes. What else is going on . Lets join su keenan. Japan and the latest economic data, japanese exports fell for a 12th straight month in november. Aat confirms little sign of pickup despite indications the slump in Global Manufacturing may have bottomed. The value of shipments abroad fell just under