Billion. Sydney, just past 8 a. M. Im haidi lun. This is daybreak asia. In new after 6 p. M. York. Im betty liu. We will be looking in all the action on wall street playing into the asiapacific trading day. Two within the last minutes, we got that breaking news out of washington. President trump firing the fbi director james comey. Our chief White House Correspondent has the latest on this news. . Evin, what happened here he fired comey on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions, right . Reporter yes this is breaking is just coming out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, where fbi director comey has been fired. President informing the fbi that he will no longer be leading the bureau. In the letter where he informed mr. Comey of the firing, he says i want to read it to you. He says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three everett occasions separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to
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And finally, 1 00 p. M. Time, the u. S. Treasury is set to auction 24 billion in three year notes. Jonathan thank you very much, david. And an uncomfortable market. The s p 500 finished yesterdays session unchanged on a record close. Joining us from hong kong is sean darby. And of course, allen russ kin of fx research. Much has been made on the vix and the s p s. Give us your thoughts and your initial takeaway. Weve got a period where real bond yields have been turning negative in most of the developing markets. Thats been accompanied by a fall in the dollar and the background got a resurgencing global trade. So its a pretty Perfect World for the economy and for equity markets. I suspect why weve had such a low reeding on volatility measures over the last couple of weeks. Jonathan whats interesting about this is people often come out and say this is a sign of complacency but realize its also very low. So isnt this just a case of the market being right . I think the markets have actuall
Italy a record for the s p 500, yes. The nasdaq has been far and away the best performer of the three average. If you follow our market live blogs online, there was Tech Leadership earlier in the day. Tech has been leading the rally we have seen. Not just tech stocks, but other types of stocks as well. The dow has been the laggard here. Kind of interesting action that we have seen here, after the nasdaq in the latest leg we have seen, i was curious a which stocks have seen the most to it. Im talking about the leg and april 16. Mov that looks that historical movers. Not surprising, apple, which is at a record, microsoft, amazon, at a record. Some of the familiar names, and then some other priceline, comcast, these are those that have seen the biggest increase, and not only have contributed game,st to the nasdaqs but broadly in the market, another manifestation of this technology is a lack of concern in other areas. We have talked so much about the drop in the vix. One thing we havent lo
Italy a record for the s p 500, yes. The nasdaq has been far and away the best performer of the three average. If you follow our market live blogs online, there was Tech Leadership earlier in the day. Tech has been leading the rally we have seen. Not just tech stocks, but other types of stocks as well. The dow has been the laggard here. Kind of interesting action that we have seen here, after the nasdaq in the latest leg we have seen, i was curious a which stocks have seen the most to it. Im talking about the leg and april 16. Mov that looks that historical movers. Not surprising, apple, which is at a record, microsoft, amazon, at a record. Some of the familiar names, and then some other priceline, comcast, these are those that have seen the biggest increase, and not only have contributed game,st to the nasdaqs but broadly in the market, another manifestation of this technology is a lack of concern in other areas. We have talked so much about the drop in the vix. One thing we havent lo