Lots more on all of our stories on a website, you can even try the bbc news app, but now lets go to singapore for Asia Business report. Shinzo abe becomes japans longest serving perimeter, has his Economic Programme been a success . How the boss of mozilla, the Company Behind the firefox web browser, is taking on big tech. Its wednesday good morning asia, hello world. Glad you could join us for an action packed edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon, lets kickoff the programme with japan because this morning we had that exports flipped by 9. 2 in the month of october compared to a year ago levels. And this comes on the same day that shinzo abe passes the milestone of becoming the countrys longest serving Prime Minister. His time in office has been marked by his centrepiece Economic Programme called abenomics. For more on this Economic Revival Initiative from the Prime Minister, imjoined now Economic Revival Initiative from the Prime Minister, im joined now by my collea g u es P
Of a total breakdown. And technical glitches marred the launch of disneys new streaming service. To breakingirst, news from south korea. The jobless rate coming in at 3. 5 . This is in line with estimates but slightly higher than the previous month. Add 419 thousand jobs in october, more than they did in september, which was already quite a strong job scheme number. Pe number. That is helping to offset some losses,anufacturing job not to mention declines in retail employment. In south korea they have been really supported by fiscal policy. In budget is helping growth the public sector. Right now, the jobless rate coming in at 3. 5 for the month of october. Lets see how we are doing in the markets in asia. Overnight,d messages hearing from President Trump in new york, threatening the possibility of more tariffs if phase one trade deal doesnt get done. Hasydney, as that market just come online, new zealand,. Rading is underway with Fourth Quarter Inflation Expectations, it plummeted off
Sevenweek win streak and tech is the secondworst performer in the s p. Joining us for the hour, Barbara Duran from bda capital is here at post 9, talking more about a market that happens to be happy as long as trade tensions are not escalated, pretty much right . That is for sure. And i think a lot is being discounted in the market in terms of global recovery, the fed is on hold, but watching careful. And we have yet to see the effect of the Interest Rates next year. But trade, i think, its what people are expecting is that therell be no more bad news i think hoping for something more, like a rollback of tariffs would be a bit much. This seems to have morphed into a geopolitical technological fliskt i think the downside is limited also for those same reasons, plus people are defensively postured and so on but i think what its going to take is next year, having to see what the earnings are going to be and thats a possibility is the market even considering that possibility is that priced
With the smallcap stocks. Joe em stocks up over 1 . Not a dramatic outperformance but they have been over performing for quite a while. Scarlet lets dive deeper into the action with our market reporters. Abigail, what are you watching . Abigail not participating in the risk on rally and record highs, bitcoin. 15 day chart, down 14 out of the last 15 days. However, today it appears as though bitcoin is maybe trying to stage a rally. Below 7000 as the technical side suggested for quite some time. Trying to hang on by a thread. This is a multiweek decline. In the context of a weekly chart. Over the past few years, a beautiful uptrend for the most part. ,here is the bitcoin bubble 20,000, then going below about 4000. Right now, hitting down over the past couple of years, right around 6400. If these levels can hold, maybe we see a brief bounce back higher. These levels suggest maybe we go down to that average below 5000. The longterm message is bullish for bitcoin. Nearterm chop. Taylor i w
The u. S. May give approval next month, but either regulators are more cautious. Tencent music find the right beat with earnings topic the highest analyst estimates. Lets take a look at how asian markets are set to trade today after a pretty terrible session yesterday. We did not get a great lead from the u. S. Wall street seeing very thin volumes and expert tatian still high that we will see this trade deal but some uncertainty coming through in the mix as well as you look at yesterdays trading due to we are looking at trading starting in sydney, i staggered open pretty much flat at the open after a robust session on monday. New zealand trading at 1 10 of 1 ahead of the rbnz decision. Economists split about whether we will see another 25 basis points easing from the new releases new zealand central bank. We will get some hints to what direction they will go with the inflation exit tatians report later today as well as housing prices. To cargo nikkei futures flat at the moment. We are