Lets look at these markets and our into the european trading day. Stoxx 600 in europe up by. 1 . And even start to the trading day. Evenly divided winners and losers on the European Equity markets. Lacking any direction. Into the u. S. , also lacking direction. We have seen a little bit above the flatline. Not getting a great bicker great bit of direction. A big focus on Central Banks and a u. S. And a focus on u. S. Policy. Titians, ay trade tensions, that coming up. Wrist bank leaves behind five years riksbank leaves behind five years. Is now what we are showing you. We were showing you the norwegian krone. Not to be confused with the riksbank. Bank, we scroll back to what they did there. That was as expected. See a to this picture, we number of Central Banks leaving policy unchanged. They were treated for negative Interest Rate hiking. They were moving in their own direction moving against the cutting cycle for many previous months. We continue to do that. Lets get a new lets get an
Bbc. Co. Uk news, and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Should the boeing 737 max have been grounded after the first crash . Us regulators predicted further accidents. The European Central bank will look at a small but growing number of women at the top of business. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Its a thursday. Glad you could join us its a thursday. Glad you could join us for another exciting addition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We started the programme with boeing, because regulators have been giving evidence in hearing into the crash of the 737 max last year, when a high chance was predicted of future accidents. But they failed to ground the plans until after a second fatal crash. Documents showed a nalysts second fatal crash. Documents showed analysts of the federal Aviation Administration predicted there could be as many as 50 more fatal accidents if the planes software wasnt fixed. Michelle fleury in new york has been follow
Set for the s p 500. Joe there you go. Caroline abigail, what are you watching . Abigail you know, caroline, across asset classes, the technicals for the s p 500 are fairly constructive. It is worth noting we also have a rally for haven bonds. Take a look at this, the 10year yield shedding 11 basis points on the week. This is the biggest rally for bonds going back to the first year of october. Haven bond rally in, and that has influenced dissector blog competition, putting aside the big rally we saw today for health care, the best sectors, on the week, real estate and utilities, those are of course rate sensitive. Dividends look more attractive. On the flipside side of this, take a look at two of the worst sectors or one of the worst sectors of the week, the financials, and the Kbw Bank Index underperforming, taylor. It will be interesting if that continues this week. And seems as though the defensive sectors are actually doing quite well. Taylor well, abigail, we talked about how the
Steeper falls on this but this is still early doors with what is going on with the benchmarks. Certainly what we also have going on is the treasury market as well. Seen a bit of the paring of the gains we have seen. Yields moving slightly to the upside. 1. 71 or thereabouts on that. Looking at futures. Flat for the s p on the futures. Lending a little bit of support. Cnh pretty much on move, we could see a gradually could get weaker. The offshore yuan 7. 07. Looking at sterling, we have 1. 30. Ver we have continued polls coming out suggesting the conservative well, boris johnson, did with the majority after the december 12 election. Thats what we have at the moment. Lets go to new york and join su keenan. Su we start with President Trump who is done a you turn on nato switching 180 degrees from his criticism to claiming credit for strengthening the alliance. Trump was especially vocal on efense spendingspens complaining that washington bears the burden for your safety. He warns nato me
Saudi government. They get 20 times the credit limit. Alibaba shatters sales records in singles day. 38. 3 billion. Juliette plus the top interviews featuring bankers and central bankers from around the globe. I am seeing that it has bottomed out. I see the level as appropriate for the economy we have. Negative rates are something which hurt the economy. The Important Message for the market is these Interest Rates are low for a prolonged period. Juliette it is straight ahead on bloomberg best. Juliette hello and welcome. I am juliette saly. This is bloomberg best. Your review of the most important Business News, analysis, and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with a day by day look at the top headlines. The last 22 weekends have seen protests in the streets of hong kong with monday usually being a day to recover. This monday, unrest spilled over into the work week. Stocks in hong kong fell the most since late august as protests escalated after police sho