Japanese yen is a safe haven. I must say actually, the japanese yen is up than u. S. Dollar and is holding up. Oil is definitely on a buy. Wti, to give us a sense of the volume. Brent crude is saving four times its volume and w. T. I. Is trading six or seven times. The markets are definitely moving with this geopolitical news overnight. Its time for the Global Exchange from around the world. From london to istanbul to prints on, new jersey and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with tensions in the iddle east where one of irans most powerful general killed. The u. S. Active International Terrorism targeting and assassinating is extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation. The u. S. Bears responsibility for all consequences of its ogue ven chur churism. Mark, what is the reaction . Ive seen some demonstrations already in iran. Yes. There have been protests in iran which is the city where he was born. The key thing to remember abo
Basically pleased everyone. There was an upgrade at Morgan Stanley and that is another stock at the top of the s p 500. A new twentyyear issue according to the treasury that has yields a little bit higher. Highs, that is the story. Volumes reasonably good around 1 . Some decent data coming out of china. That is helped the mining stocks. The pound tracking lower. Sales. Tail keep an ion the eurodollar, as well. 110. 8 is a line in the sand. Things a start to get interesting. Down by. 4 . We have a bank of england meeting coming up. Lets stick with the stories and talk to our guest who joins us in london. Peter dixon, commerzbank. I want to start with the bank of england. I have a chart here. This is the probability of a cut from the bank of england and it has skyrocketed. We are up to 75 and it is happened quickly. Is it a done deal . No, but the market is telling us something. The balance of probability is clearly in favor. What we want to see is pushback. The market is driving in this
Lets take a look at what is been helping foment further gains across the asiapacific. That is the futures contract for the s p up to tens, hang seng three tens of 1 . And the nikkei has buoyed a bit. Also the topix doing rather well. We have a cna a tad week. Looking at that as we do. Also the yen, and the boj. 41 day since the boj came in and bought a sizable chunk of stocks in the japanese market. Someat stealth tapering, people are arguing because the yield on the 10 years unchanged. The yield has been lurching lower eight basis points. Weekhas been put less a and see what is going on in regard to the haven stages. The learn not willing to look at and take on risk right now. This is of course after the Election Results or we saw the landslide victory when it comes to democratic camp. She was talking about how she is ready to listen and stands by previous stances on protest demands. People who felt that our government has not handled, deadly the legislative exercise and its aftermath
Of expedia said there were strategic differences with the current leadership and the ceo and the fo are now gone cfo oregon. Down 3. 1 percent, the worst performer in s p 500. Higher,opean stocks are the pound trading north of 131 against the u. S. Dollar. We have a stronger rate against brent crudel, moving higher, up by nearly 4 in todays session. Opec is just around the corner. We will talk about that later on in the program. Lets talk more about the trade story, affecting markets over the last 24 hours. Economist is a senior , we have been jostled by the trade story. Todays story is maybe we are inching closer. The president talking about the idea that it can wait until after the u. S. Election. If we dont get a deal by the 15th of december, if we dont get additional tariffs what does that do to the Economic Data . I think the Economic Data improves beginning next year into spring if we can contain the current trade tensions. If we get a phase one deal before or after christmas tha
Opportunities. The yuan went through seven offshore for the first time in a long time overnight. This, of course, a concerted effort to put pressure on the u. S. Rollback of tariffs, in which case president xi would travel to the u. S. To sign phase one of a deal, or so we are led to believe. Down. The lockup is expiring tomorrow. Some are seeing a net negative, and could be a little but of profittaking. Guy european stocks fading as well, now only up a little bit. It was a decent rally earlier on, but certainly fading, noun by 0. 1 . The euro continues to languish, 1. 1075. Why hasnt it rallied more over the last month . The rand continues to make gains as well. Didnt get a downgrade friday. We will go live to janice berg later in the program to johannesburg later in the program. Reaffirmsxi jinping that his country would open itself up to trade even further. Here to discuss all of this, jane foley, rabobank head of fx strategy. The trade rally has had a big impact on assets. Do you t