Welcome to friday. 6 00 in london. 7 00 in paris or berlin. Lets check where we are in the market action. We got the msci asiapacific up. Volatility in treasury markets allow a few more gains. We see the japanese market down. Up around 0. 4 . It does not mean we stop worrying about global concerns. It is on its weekly gains. We are keeping track of the strong gains yesterday. We got a change of guidance from the ecb raising questions when will you get changes in guidance. Goes insideedwards baseball, but lets talk about central bank speak. Agoe was a song many years called, big in japan. Weekend of the january 5 that started back in october. The unsettling of the global trade story between north korea, south korea, and japan. You are seeing the bond at risk in japan dropped to a 10 month low. , theave fresh readings Current Conditions index is on an upper upward trajectory. Forwardlooking indexes also remaining high. I want to give you fast facts. The nikkei has had the best start sinc
Saves the world become the regular path of every central bank toolkit . Im mark barton. Out what is happening to European Equity markets one hour into the tuesday session. We are lower by about. 1 . Falling for a second day after rising yesterday. The highest since august. Sterling continue his continues its climb. We temporarily crossed 136 yesterday, the postbrexit median forecast for the fourth quarter. According to the analysts we 1. 29, a bit of a gap. 44 , marginally higher today fell yesterday to the lowest big news is friday when snp global ratings raised the rating to investment grade. The yield on the 10 year yesterday following a whopping 36 basis points. The biggest oneday move since 2000 and 10 2010. Ahead of trumps u. N. Speech, the fed twoday meeting, that kicks off today, gold is inching higher by. 1 , rising after falling to the lowest since august of 2015. Yesterday it rose to a oneyear high on september the seventh. Lets get the first word news. Here is nejra cehic.
Past 9 00 a. M. , we are an hour away from the open of asias first major market and the start of a new trading week. It is just past 6 00 in new york. Weekend for Central Bank Policy makers the world. I spent the last three or four days in new york. It is kind of like a monetary rock festival. The final act, the g 30 this weeing in new york, the hours in hong kong. We had janet yellen, kuroda, it was amazing. Yes, sort of like coachella for nerds. It is interesting. This kind of mantra of saying we are going to get tightening and we are on track, and yellen and draghi are saying inflation will pick up next year. Have we all been underestimating it . There you go. We will get into this quite a bit through the show, and including the inflation number , a little bit of a sour note but ignored for now. Trying to say quickly, stocks close higher across the border, across the board, bonds rallied after the cpi came in weaker. You can see s p up two points, the dow up about 1 10, the nasdaq g
The zune the ballot will be held secret. Chinas trade gap widens for a fifth month. Is there anything President Trump can do about it . Matt i want to answer that question, but will value we are less than half an hour from the european open. Futures trading down this morning after a mixed close yesterday. Not much direction in markets the last couple of days and not a lot of direction, meaning futures are already, but not really significant drops. The asian pack down, as well. Booms threeday chart a little, in bunds, gain in yields and today it looks like we are coming up from the open here just a little bit. 0. 462. We have been in this rage with bunds a quarter percent to half a percent. We will see if we can get change in direction. What are you seeing on the gmm. Guy we have got the german trade surplus widening, but the chinese trade surplus widening out. That is something to Pay Attention to. In terms of markets this morning, solid session yesterday for emerging markets, todays s
Has made the recommendation, alleging illegal overspending. Estatece prosecutor has made the recommendation, alleging illegal overspending. Thank you for joining us. The Islamic State group has carried out a wave of attacks in syria, killing dozens of people. Four explosions targeted areas controlled by the syrian government. Her two blasts the assad regime says the bombings were retaliation for the recapture of a district in aleppo, which has placed the city under siege once again. Isis fighters are not actually thought to be present there. Rubble areust and all that remain of this building. It came crashing down after a car bomb went off. A series of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group on monday. That last another blast was reported to the army to reported at the Army Checkpoint just off of damascus. The first attack was reportedly caused by a car bomb in, and the second by a suicide bomber, who detonated his explosives when people hav the multiple attacks took place at 8 00 a