Pricing surrounding the feds next rate decision. Plenty of great coverage coming up. Lets get a first word news update with olivia hows. Olivia at the vatican today, russian president Vladimir Putin met with pope francis. It is a sign of closer ties between the kremlin and the catholic church. Russian officials said the meeting would focus on syria and ukraine. Tomorrows the pope is due to hold talks with the ukraine about conflict in that country. British special forces have seized a supertanker suspected of carrying iranian oil to syria, in violation of u. S. Sanctions against the syrians. The tanks are ready to go, and the fighter jets are set for the flyover, all part of President Trumps changes to the two directional fourth of July Celebration on the National Mall the traditional fourth of july silla brush and on the National Mall. There is concerned that the 20th to Nuclear Treaty with iran is about to collapse asked that the 2015 Nuclear Treaty with iran is about to collapse tha
Economists were expecting at least a 4 . Property investment is a sore point, still eight. 5 down. Worse still 8. 5 down. A slight pickup in the jobless rate. I cannot seem to find a be. It seems like a miss across the board on activity numbers coming through. We are still waiting on some other numbers. In some ways we thought this would be soft but not this soft but the rate cuts in the seven day. Markets are not really reacting as much. Yvonne currency continues to be something traders are ignoring, pboc fixes given the pressures we are sitting on the currencies. Yields are taken higher globally. We could be seeing a scenario of 754 china but looking at how markets do say were seeing slight declines so taking it in stride right now. Maybe a cushion in markets in terms of sentiment. The retail sales print is the lowest we have seen since last december. National bureau of statistics should start their press briefing to give more context. And we have helen chow out of bank of america. W
Come roaring back end is holding, 12. 26 and routed dropping down, but still well over 80 a barrel. The markets seem to be holding the same strength that they were when i left over a week ago. In terms of individual movers, a lot to the downside. Tyson foods closing down some chicken factories, which is a concerning statement. But that is what they are called, up five and half percent because demand and prices are down for chickens. And 99yearold trucking business files for bankruptcy, shares down 17 area Icahn Enterprises continues the drops we saw last week after they cut the dividend, i guess it was unsustainable. Tesla down about 3 as the cfo steps down, cathie wood said she thought he was great and wishes him the best in the future, but thinks his successor is going to be doing just fine as he has been there for the last five years, since 2018. Talking about tesla, i want to get over to the west coast. Ed ludlow joins us, he covers the company closely. You heard what kathy told us
Rishaad just about 30 minutes to go until we get going again for the hong kong session. Let us take a look at what has been happening. Has been a winning last day of trading for 2017. The highlights. Looking at 14 months, straight months of a global stock that is gaining. This is unprecedented. Let us go back to the dark days of 2008 when we had steep falls. In one month, 10 of the stocks declined. Since then, recovery taking place. 2009. D bag since the last 14 months has framed what has been going on. The hang seng up about 34 so far this year. Notwithstanding the gains we may be seeing in a little while. And that is when the session kicks off in about 29 minutes. Singapore and taiwan coming online as well. Let us go over to sophie and have another look at the markets. Grant sporre sophie let us take a look. The ringgit is heading for its best year since 2010. In 2017 following the rebound in oil prices. Is expected to test at a number three level. Singaporean stocks. The opening was
We begin with our conversation with the head of fixed income Asset Management hussein. I think you have seen some stability it obviously in the last 12 months specifically , obviously because of the best particularly since 2016 when the oil was very low, and you had middle east begin to get impacted. However, the big change, and i think that is something we can talk about, middle east read versus global em. That is were the real story has been in the past 12 to 15th months, the way that i see it. You have had a situation where if you look at spread on about Jp Morgan Middle East index and you compare it with the fiveyear emerging markets cdx spread we have done exactly that on the basis of your notes. Btv 7042, compares and contrasts em versus middle east credit. Talk to me a little bit more about where the trend goes from here. I think that is the interesting point, i think what we will see as probably middle east outperforming global em over the next six months or so. You will probab