Index, just marginally down. The real story has been the bounceback after last weeks fall for bitcoin, approaching record highs. 19,595. 1. 1 to the upside. Drivings within opec that crude oil price down. Lets look at what is going on in the emerging market context. Asian markets are bouncing back nicely after yesterdays big move to the downside. What has been responsible for this change in mood . , onethink first of all should partly see yesterdays price action as an anomaly. I think the Way Investors are now returning to the positive things like easy fed policy, Global Economic recovery, which was confirmed by asian pmis and the index that just came out, and optimism about vaccines. Juliette and your team has written a piece on the e. M. Currency outlook for 2021. It reads quite positively. What is the basis for all that optimism . Maybe there are three reasons. First, valuation. We believe that emfx is undervalued and conditions should be conducive to pushing them into overvalued te
Seeing. Sarah you look at equities in japan right now. The nikkei 225 of more than five percent, trading below 20,000 for the first time in over a year. What is already been very rough price action is only getting worse as time goes on. You look at s p 500 futures trading at the 5 limit from the friday reference price. 28. 1 nine. At futures continue to trade. They just cannot jump although it or fall below it. That is the first time we have seen a limit down since donald trump did win the presidency in 2016. The asx having its worst day since 2008. Msi market watch, the asiapacific region is having its worst day since june of 2016. What is really pulling lower is the energy stuck. Off by 8 . That is the worst day since 2008. It is your upstream energy companies. Your producers that are weighing. The worst day since 1988. Also some of your worst performers coming out of hong kong. The legs of oil fields having its worst day ever, off 15 anything. Energy related really all 15 . Anything
We start with the u. S. Senate bill aimed at supporting hong kong protesters. Ministry said in a statement that it blatantly interferes in Hong Kong Affairs and other china internal affairs. Bloombergs great at china editor karen leigh, walk us through what happened. Karen this follows chinas line telling the u. S. To back off when it comes to hong kong. The into options that it could take. Sees a bit hong kong of a more normal daytoday after many days off, and a standoff between protesters and police is coming slowly to an end. Looking ahead towards district elections on sunday. Should the government delay or postpone them, that could lead to more protests, so all eyes sickly turn to next weekend. Eyes basically turn to next weekend. Alix thank you. Bloombergs matt miller joins us from frankfurt. Walk us through the highlights of the report. This twice a year, as you said. They think this is a part of the responsibility they have for setting Monetary Policy, to also point out the risk
Discussion on slave refugee camps during the war. Watch American History tv tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. This past june, facebook announced plans for its own crypto currency called libra. The cocreator of Libra David Marcus answered lawmakers concerned over the Digital Currency before the Senate Banking committee. This is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks res
Commodities with the smartest voices in the business. We kick it off with spot on, our analysts take on. We start our analyst take on the big story. Joining me is ceo and a middle east advisor. Our spotlight is on the middle east. A lot has happened in the last week. It started thursday when two tankers were damaged in the gulf of oman. Friday, President Trump formally accused iran as the perpetrator and on monday, the u. S. Ordered troops in the middle east. Thursday morning, iran shut down shot down a u. S. Drone and President Trump addressed the situation while meeting with canadian Prime Minister justin trudeau. Pres. Trump iran made a big mistake. This drone was in international waters. We have it all documented. It is documented scientifically, not just words. They made a very bad mistake. Alix what is the end goal here for the u. S. . Ultimately, to reach some kind of diplomatic negotiation and agreement. We are far away from that. At the moment, they are probably thinking about