Let us quickly check on the markets. Quite a lot going on. I am looking at the stoxx 600 in europe which is gaining a touch on the backs of gains in Energy Companies and a bullish outlook from one of the sectors bellwether. Looking at the dollar. And the fed and what we will hear from powell. Therude oil including impact of the opec meeting. We need to wait a little more to see how long we will cut production. A lineup our lineup today is looking pretty good. We feature some of the top names in banking and economics including Tidjane Thiam. We speak strategy and outlook on the Global Economy. And jim oneill. He speaks u. K. And emerging markets. Later, we will also speak with John Studzinski from blackstone. Let us get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra in the u. S. , the Senate Tax Bill is headed for a debate. Should it pass, Republican Leaders will have to hammer out a compromise. Two republican members of the senate what your say they may not agree to vote the measure
Getting a carryon of this sanguine sentiment coming through from asia overnight, we had some exuberance yesterday after hitting fresh record highs. Our hopes that we could get up three chris is tax reform surprise prechristmas tax but are concerned about a partial Government Shutdown if a deal is not reached by next week. Over all we are seeing a pickup in the markets. One thing we are watching his commodities. We of course have a situation where it has been a extraordinary bull run when it comes to commodities so far this year and a lot of it has in down demand in china continuing to pick up. We are going to be looking into the question of whether that will be coming to an end, ryan, given that we are seeing the Housing Demand pull off in china cool off and china. In north korea, sanguine reaction when it comes to the equities markets in asia. You can see on the chart, we ave had the increasingly repetitive indications that the missiles have gotten more advanced incapability or nuclea
Keeping in contact, linkedin has big plans for asia. We are going to set the challengers and the rivals. We are heading into the end of the trading week here in asia, and we do have a really supportive lead from wall street as we had the dow passing 24,000. The s p seeing its longest streak, monthly gains up by about a decade. We are going to get a potentially before christmas. We have over the last half hour or so had the announcement of suspension until 11 00 a. M. Friday morning in washington. The key compromise has collapsed and is scrambling to salvage that. Buoyancyeing the passed through to the Asian Session. Couple of key numbers when it comes to the agenda today. Japanese inflation edging slightly higher, but surging still half of that target. We saw south korean inflation falling more than expected. The other piece of data we are watching for his the pmi. The private manufacturing survey. This one versus the official reading which came in stronger than connected yesterday, at
And others get ready for a new voice in the crowd as samsung prepares a new speaker. Betty good morning. Here in the markets in the u. S. , it is really the tax reform, the last minute zynga coming up from marco rubio. That dragged down u. S. Stocks. But overall it looks like central bankers are trying what we are calling dovish tightening. They are trying to move the ball forward with Interest Rates without disrupting. Mario draghi of the ecb trying to thread that line today. Paul grappling the same old problems the world developed, in terms of inflation. 7 in 2020 point does not sound terribly optimistic, does it . Betty no. No, it doesnt. Perhaps that is why markets took all of that in stride. Lets quickly pull up where the u. S. Markets ended up today. We were lower, taxes a main focus for investors. The s p down 0. 4 . Anddow lower by 77 points, tech shares, as well. Most of the major s p groups were in the red, except Consumer Discretionary stocks. A slower day in asia for you .
Rishaad the index of Japanese Business and manufacturing, very positive. Showing you what is going on in the past three years. Abenomics. Fore we have seen positivity. It has been working. Many fracturing there in blue. The blue line is showing the outlook. Just in manynot fracturing but also Business Conditions for the future as well. It is something that many people. Ut there are looking to it is signaling good times ahead for equities in tokyo. Haidi absolutely. Except fore faltered the risky inflation. It comes on the back of that very positive nikkei reading. All going into this bank of japan meeting. Seem to see a little bit of fatigue in the markets after what has been a massive week for centralbank activity. Pretty low volume. Lets take a look at markets. Traders today. R liette we are seeing money come off the table. Very low volume. Up by 7 10 of 1 . We hit that high. Have seen the tail codes the bank come under significant of decreaseterms meant. You cannot blame it on the j