Hour. Stocks are set for a positive start after earnings reports, treasuries are falling. Chinese deflation danger growing. Softbanks vision fund set to return to profit. We are getting a slew of trade data from around the region. We see the goods trade surplus widening. We are seeing the current account surplus widening. This as we continue to watch the won as a key currency pair, sentiment has been souring. Not just south korea, always a bellwether when it comes to those first 20 days. We are expecting further weakness. The goods trade surplus is widening to 3. 985 billion, the current account number coming at 5. 8 billion. Shery take a look at how u. S. Futures are trading, we are seeing a muted picture. The s p 500 is being led higher by financials. There is a lot for markets to take in this week. We were talking about cpi numbers totaling more than 100 billion but the market has to digest. Were talking about more stability and investors are focused. Took a bit of time for digester
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Provided to qatar during the financial crisis. Heineken margins will grow less than its target as the secondlargest brewer integrates its brazilian business. We speak with the cfo during this program. Matt we are less than a halfhour away from the european open. Take a look at where futures are trading. We were up across the board on friday and u. S. Trading up across the board. In asia, well, not across the board, i should say that. You dont see any trading in japan, but we do see european futures carrying on that global trend of a rebound in this case, futures. We are indicated to open up in the european cash trade stocks, as well. Take a look at bunds. The treasurys trade is on hold for japanese trading. We are indicated to see again in treasury yields. Here you see a threeday chart of bunds and the yields have spiked up. We are looking at 78 basis points right now, a gain of four basis points for german bunds. Expect to see treasury yields move up, as well. What does that mean for
Missiledefense system, China Threatens to court hurt corporate korea. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east. Shery ahn joins us. Yes out of a very windy and chilly day. Out of are seeing is south korean headlines. That is the reason i am here. We have a thing called the trial of the century. Into court today. We also have the impeachment motion decision for the constitutional courts coming in tomorrow. North korean tensions are all around. That is being tested this week. Take a look at the korea won that is taking a hit because of everything that is happening. We are seeing this losing. Have moreling that pressure. The japanese yen is also weakening, we are also seeing the decline. The is still giving this topic boost. All of this happening across asia. It has been a big few hours before crude oil. It is up five. 6 . We got that data rum the eia. For show a another record their inventory. 11 out of 12 games for the week so far. Look at the chart i put together for you. We are lookin
Earnings. Joining us is Christine Harper from bloomberg. We are joined also by allison williams. Christine barclays and some of the banks around the world are up. Postbrexitthe trading and money market reform is coming into play today. That drove up client act timmy. Rates in particular. The fixed income trading is not really anything. Nobody was expecting that. Allison estimates started to come out and people felt better. We knew it was strong because of exit. August was a typical seasonal slowdown. Saw, inm things we general when things are accelerating, thats only 10 to get some of these beats. Christine its interesting. Thatd the First Quarter was terrible for a lot of banks. The Third Quarter which was summer was really good. Its up 48 year on year. On the money market reforms, how much of that is a oneoff due to that figure we wont see again in the next quarter . There is always a number of things that we are not going to see in the next quarter that we will hear analysts asking