Biggest spike in cases in nearly four months. Good morning and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. This is what the markets are doing , european stocks moving to the downside gorsuch any trading sideways, despite record highs on wall street. This is what we are also looking at when it comes to gold, always look at gold because it gives you a good sense of where there is appetite, slipping back below 2000 on ounce. We saw declines in utilities outweighing gains in travel shares, of the stoxx 600 actually gained. Up, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchanges and clearing joins us for an interview after the Company Posted a record firsthalf profit. That is in a couple. Of minutes lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. We start with joe biden, it is official. He has become the democraticc nominee for president. The second night saw a slate of speakers, from former president bill clinton to representative alexandria ocasio cortez. Biden himse
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
On in hong kong with china over the weekend saying the security law could override hong kongs legal system. We she we see shares on the hang seng. 23,469 for the hang seng. The csi 300 pointing positive. Showing the resilience across these benchmarks. The kospi as well, we did get those export numbers. A slump easing a bit. Not very encouraging when it comes to exports of chips. Only a gain of 2. 6 . We saw a 13 advance in may. Perhaps this recovery is in an early nascent sense. The p cop, lowered by 910s of 12 . A decision coming through bank of centro and the rbnz later this week. Later on when it comes to assets, the disappointment has been with the china lpr, which they did not do anything. Given the credit numbers we have gotten, perhaps it was reason to pause. The selloff in bonds, are we going to continue to see that change . Ozzie yen, you are seeing a perk up aussie again, you are seeing a perk up. The dollar is rising for a fifth day. We have seen some flareups in australia.
Across the americas. The spread is unacceptable. South korea braces for a second wave. Lenders are backing away. Bank of considering cutting a credit line, writing off its and calling it quits. We are just getting some indications, early indications of the economic rebound in australia. The cva australia pmi manufacturing preliminary number for june bouncing back. Just in contractionary territory but certainly much better than the 44 from the previous reading. The Services Number also much better i we get parts of the Services Economy reopening after the restrictions coming in at 53. 2. The previous reading was 26. 9. That composite number for june, 52 point six. 28. 1 and out of contractionary territory. That is a preliminary reading but things looking a bit more positive. Also looking positive for asian markets, lets get over to Sophie Kamaruddin for a look. Futures are in the green with s p eminis and he restocks resuming gains while the aussie dollar remaining on the on foot at the
Are close to sealing a merger agreement, telling employees a final pact is coming within weeks. And shares in the lse group trade higher as shareholders prepare to vote on the 27 billion takeover well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs. One of our top stories today, alibaba has closed almost 7 higher after its hong kong debut, the Largest Global listing so far this year the ecommerce giant listed at a price of 176 hong kong dollars to raise 11. 2 billion in fresh capital. And as part of the ipo, the Chinese Company issued 500 million new ordinary shares. Emily tan is joining us live from hong kong emily, the largest ipo of 2019, quite a stellar postmarket performance with the stock up almost 7 in trading how has the reception been overall . Reporter you know what, juwana, the newcomer to the market today was the most heavily traded in hong kong with 1. 8 billion worth of shares changing hands as you mentioned, the stock closed up more than 6. 5 , off the days highs, but u