Damage. China near a takeover of the airline hna, saying it wants to stem the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Cruise passengers return. The first batch of hong kong residents from the diamond princess are due back in the city today, but there is lingering confusion about their arrival. U. S. Attorney general william barr tries to invoke an old law that protected tech companies. Ike google and Facebook Paul nothing has been happening released since you have been gone. Lets check in on futures in asia today. New zealand already trading at the moment. X higher by a quarter of 1 . 1 in by 1 5 of australia. 771 millioned profits. Pretty flat. Qantas seeing an impact from coronavirus. Few catalysts to watch out for. Aussie jobs expected to rise a little and china expected to cut its loan prime rate. We have machine tool orders out of japan as well. Emily i want to look at where u. S. Markets closed today. Lets get to bloombergs taylor riggs in san francisco. Taylor risk on across the
Lets get over to china correspondent in beijing for more. What are the latest developments . The economic front, we did hear from the finance minister over the weekend. There will be additional measures from china to cut taxes and fees to support the economy. We saw additional meters over bond issues at the local government level. Additional letters from policymakers to support the economy. Meet its social and economic target. The question is how much budgetary pressure china will be under and how aggressive these stimulus measures are going to be. Pboc has lowered Interest Rates ensure Financial Markets in terms of cases, 68,500 are the latest numbers in terms of infection. 1600 deaths. The rate of infections continues to slow. We had a doctor out of one of the hospital say that now according to state media, this is starting potentially to peak the rate of infection. The new officials on hubei profits, wuhan is the capital, population they are told not to leave their homes. Leadership
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
The Global Supply chain factor. Early facebook investor Roger Mcnamee joins us for what the virus means longterm for Companies Like apple and tesla. Paul, dramatic day for the markets and elsewhere. Why are you following . Paul tuesday trading day in asia, i guess the question is, to far is this stone going think . A drop asoking for well, about 2. 5 . Nikkei futures, big hit, 4 . South korea had one of its worst days and 17 years on monday. Japan of course playing catchup because monday was a Public Holiday. Take a look at currencies. The aussie dollar hit the yard over the past 24 hours. Currently just hanging on above . 66. The aussie 10 year continuing to slump toward historic lows. Of red. Uyh a lot in the u. S. , stocks tumbled. Three benchmarks slumped. Good to Abigail Doolittle lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. Abigail the markets selling off in a big way. Here in the u. S. , a three day slide. This is the worst of those three days. Friday, the disappointing pmi number
And infections surge around the world with outbreaks and 65 countries. Withe a 50 jump in cases 34 people know dead. Well, what a day. Take a look at markets right now. Lets start with bonds. Were going to take a look at the aussie three year, hitting a record low at. 35 . The aussie 10 year, pretty weak. The new zealand 10 year also slipping. Were seeing yields on bonds falling to levels previously unseen. Barrel. Ude 49 a wti is below 45 a barrel. Lets check in on currencies. Dollargot the kiwi trading like this. Coming in betterthanexpected , 2. 6 . But this predates the coronaVirus Outbreak. Weve seen exports rise in new zealand to 1. 7 . The yen was a big mover, strengthening 3 against the u. S. Dollar. That trend looking to continue. A 54ussie dollar has handle, and that happened after we got those absolutely shocking pmi numbers out of china for february. So, hows that setting us up for Equities Trading around the region today . New zealand up and running and off 3. 2 . We have