But it turns out that may not be the case. In the big banks launch a earnings season with a bang. Jp morgan reports of most profitable year ever for any u. S. Lender. News from south korea, were the jobless numbers for the month of december. Writings coming in at 3. 8 , which is higher than estimated and higher than the previous month of november. The jobless rate has been creeping up since the month of august and now we are seeing it shoot up to 3. 8 . Although it is worth mentioning that the economy still added 516,000 jobs in december, which is 200,000 more than in the month of november. Conflicting signals right there, but we have seen the government has tried to create jobs, they have tried to support the economy, but we continue to see declines in the manufacturing and retail sectors. Now the jobless rate coming in at higher than expected 3. 8 . Austrian markets have now open for trade. Lets turn to sophie for what to watch. Sydney a flat open in after a fresh record on tuesday.
Nissan scrapped its payout entirely. Changes at the top. Ubs begins its search for a successor to ceo Sergio Ermotti. They are said to be seeking internal and external candidates. Good morning, just under an hour away from the start of the cash equity trading day in europe. Lets take a look at the futures picture. The picture around the asian equity session was one that was flat and negative, and this is the picture we have for european futures. European futures showing a bit of upside to the start of the trading day, as our u. S. Futures. We are expecting to see more movement, but coronavirus remains a big topic of discussion. And expectations about what Central Banks can do is at the forefront of investors minds, when we look at the resilient futures. Lets get to the breaking data. We have german Economic Data for the German Economy, stagnating in the Fourth Quarter. That is our red headline across the board. The quarter on quarter number, unchanged. There is the stagnation for you.
Pressure mounts. Shery the volcano in the philippines shots schools and the Stock Exchange, warning of a violent explosion. Australian markets have opened for trade. Lets turn to sophie. Sophie stocks opened to the downside, off. 2 after the best week of the asx 200 since february. We are seeing beach energy under pressure but Australian Oil companies should outperform in 2020, although looking for caution around oil prices in the back half of the year given expectations for additional supply which has taken the wind out of oils rally. The oil rally. Oil had the worst week since july. Lets flip the board to check in on cable. We are seeing cable under pressure. Looking at how it is doing, moving towards the 130 scandal. 130 scandal. Here,g into the terminal want to give you the heads up the Philippines Stock Exchange has been close to their rolling along with schools and the middle miller the Manila Airport in the week. Here is where philippine stocks are. This is asias worst performer
But the e. U. May challenges deal with china. Up ad Morgan Stanley wraps big earnings week for u. S. Banks , with a beat. We are live from the Morgan Stanley global Alpha Investment conference in hong kong. Us trillion markets just open for trade. Sophie. Sophie asx us trillion marketst open for 600 the top smock the top stock market so far this year. Broadly speaking, asian futures are pointing higher and regional stocks are headed to a seventh weekly gain. We will see if the u. S. Tech rally feeds into asia, given bullish guidance. We did have alphabet joining the 1 trillion market cap club. Fed expected to stand pat on rates. Looking ahead to the chinese gdp report, futures in singapore closing higher after a three day drop was posted and the offshore yuan is headed for an eighth weekly rise. Thea top forecaster says yuan will in the year is one of asias worstperforming currencies. Shery lets go to first word news with jessica summers. Jessica the Senate Begins the formal impeachmen
Manus it is daybreak europe. Let us discuss the single bit biggest geopolitical issue in the world. For me, there is a divorce between market recalibration to risk on or less the risk off and retaliatory risk. Let us have a live picture. The foreign minister from iran speaking in tehran. The attack made the world a less unsafe place. The u. S. Is a more unsafe place. There are a number of other headlines translated by al jazeera. I is alling of soleiman big gamble and what happened was not an attack on iraqi sovereignty. It was targeting a man who was fighting terrorists. Good morning. See thee certainly do rhetoric not necessarily backing down on both sides. This is one of the questions we are asking ourselves. If weather with the u. S. Did last week was a great miscalculation and how that might feedthrough into rotelle tatian retaliation. Are we going to see rational actors being more calm in the markets as we wait to find the answers . Manus markets have repriced, and this is what i