Previous leader. That is certainly something we are going to watch out for here today when it comes to how that plays out in malaysia. Overall risk sentiment is cautious. David it doesnt help that markets here in hong kong and china, you have liquidity issues look exacerbating these issues. Here are your equity markets that are open. On the lighter side of things. Down about. 25 . Kospi up. 25 . Putting anything else together, we are on a threeweek streak of declines for asian equities. S p futures as you can see,. 5 down, pretty much where it has been holding all morning. Have a look at some other things we are tracking here as well. We talked about dollaryen today, which we will get to in a moment. Southeast asia is looking like this. The latest market to open is indonesia. A big day friday for philippines, reversing some of that now. Malaysia also little higher. Southeast asia as well, mx is your ticker for this benchmark. Also on three weeks of decline. As promised, look at dollary
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This is the second hour of. Aybreak asia just after 7 00 p. M. Here in new york. We have breaking news on singapore. The final gdp numbers for the Fourth Quarter coming in much better than what was prior 12. 3 quarter on quarter have also much better than what was initially reported. Resulting in an annual gdp rate of 2 . There is a lot of concern about this exportoriented economy, what trumps policies might mean for singapore in the future. Trade is definitely one sector. Still faster than the Third Quarter but it seems like the construction sector shrank. Manufacturing grew by 11. 5 year on year. Once singapore starts trading in we will also get exports at the bottom of the hour. A lot of news happening. First off lets get the market open. Asian shares looking to follow up the drop on wall street. Asiapacific gauge is at its highest since july, 2015. We have china futures pointing to a higher open. We might not be done yet. Take a look at the markets that are open. Australia continui
And singapores growth surges, beating december quarter forecast. We will be live there for a check on the vital shipping industry. Before we 30 minutes get under way right here in hong kong and china. Singapore just coming on. Looking at those numbers. We had a complete blowout there. Lets take a look at how it is reacting to the data probe we had this morning. Up about 2 10 of 1 , gdp coming on year. Higher up 2 . At movers, uab they are the third biggest lender. Bad load provisions rose. Lower than and ocbc, forecast profits. We see the nikkei lower for a second day, with property and Energy Leading the drop. Toshiba slipping for a fourth day. A single project may be in jeopardy as the u. S. Firm says it may be seeking a new contractor. In australia we do have it snapping a two day rise, act by health and material. Goldmining, seems to be gaining confidence. Third biggest oil and gas producer falling 1 after better than normal forecasts on sale volumes. Narrowsee its net loss to 1 bi