Im haidi lun. This is daybreak australia. We are one hour out from the open of asias major markets. It is 5 p. M. In new york. Im betty liu. It was a holiday today on wall street commemorating Martin Luther king it is 5 p. M. In new. Jr. So there were no equity bond trading at all. The dollar continues to trade in the Foreign Exchangethe dollar n the Foreign Exchange market. That is really what has dominated the trade today. We saw the dollar continue that slide coming off a five week decline. Talking to some analysts, not so much dollar weakness but it is more strength of its counterparts, right, as Central Banks are pulling back on stimulus all around the world. We are seeing a rise in many of these currencies. Haidi absolutely. Case in point, the extended gains we are seeing in the euro. As you say with the u. S. Markets closed, it was the weaker european close we saw that will lead things off in asia. Tepide seen more of a session setting up in asia. New zealand is trading underway
To tap into chinas 40 million on Offline Stores. With its new platform. Betty yvonne, no action here in the u. S. , of course because we are closed for the commemoration of Martin Luther king. Marketsties, the bond are all shot and the currency markets of course, continue to remain open. Shut for the day. It depends whether we will see a government shut down and how that will be priced into the equity markets when they open tomorrow morning. We are definitely watching commodities closely, and currencies, which continued to slide in the u. S. Dollar as well as well with five weeks of losses. Pretty remarkable, given that we are in a rate tightening timeframe here in the u. S. Area commodities, and currencies. We are watching those today. Yvonne yes, the dollar could be optimism for some of the asia traders here, but again, we are missing some fresh catalyst with the u. S. Markets closed. If we take a look at futures, it looks like we will be taking upons with the best we are looking at
Concerns about harsh factory conditions. Yvonne, we know equity markets here in the u. S. Were lower but what has been rising and rising quickly has been s p estimates by analysts. See so many upgrades because of how high the markets have passed the markets have run. I have a chart view that shows this g btv 8902 here is the yellow line here for s p earnings estimates this year. But how they are accelerating and rising given that the bull run, the record bull run we have seen so far, much faster than the s p estimates for 2019 and 2020. It looks behind the curve, perhaps wall street has been to how much tax reform seems to be propelling these markets higher. It is quite rare to actually see these earnings upgrades in the months of january so i guess they are starting to see this windfall when it comes to tax reform. But it was a wall street overnight. First you had down a 26000 and then you had down and you get back to flat and a lot of russians on whether this is a onetime affair or i
The latest trend in fashion. , whichs a trend growing are u. S. Companies bringing their cash back from abroad. We know apple is the big one. They are going to be bringing billions of dollars back, which means theyre going to pay 38 billion in taxes. And that is really, for lawmakers to pass the tax reform, that is the eyes on the prize. They have built up this much money overseas, when are they going to bring it back, and how much is it going to bet go back how much of it is going to go back to the economy. In creating jobs, which is most important to the white house. Those numbers that were highlighted in the press release if you look underneath the hood, theres questions of how much is going to be repatriated back and where it is going to go . A lot of the money is in the denominated dollars. And will other Companies Follow as well . In the meantime, another note on that, apple is spreading the joy, with employees getting bonuses. We also have overall stocks up, and a wild ride that
Rippling spotify revealing plans for new listening options, for radio and podcast. Yvonne it is a showdown in the podcasting world. Also a showdown in washington. We are going to be getting the vote. Essentially we heard earlier today that the senate does not have enough votes to pass a continuing resolution. Looks like we are closer to a Government Shutdown. I want to pull up this chart, which raises another issue. It i separates, but related to this continuing resolution vote. Issue, which is the debt ceiling. That deadline is coming up. It is a bit of a moving target. Expectations are we are going to hit that debt ceiling and need to lift it in march. That is being reflected in treasury markets, where traders tbillsing shortterm due in march. Yvonne its interesting you up, because there is difference between a shutdown anticrisis. We are only talking about there is a difference between a shutdown and a crisis. It could be limited depending how long a shutdown lasts. Some nerves in t