Biggest gain ever when it comes to wti in terms of percentage. We are losing steam there. We are not seeing a whole lot of movement here today. The offshore is slightly weaker. It does not seem like theres a whole lot of patterns you can actually string together here now that we are excluding japan. Ending the week back to where we started. Tom weve had another downgrade, another cut to forecast growth. Malaysia cutting its 2020 gdp growth estimates to 2 . A contraction of 2 . They are cutting their estimate to 2 on the coronavirus pandemic. Morgan stanley have upgraded malaysian equities. We will speak to Jonathan Gardner later in the show. We can has kim about the applications of that. Another grant outlook for malaysia. Worldwide cases of the coronavirus have reached more than one million infections and counting. Our chief north asia correspondent joins us on the line from hong kong. This is indeed a bleak milestone. Stephen thats right. Total673 is the latest were getting from the
30 in the u. S. In the second quarter. It is looking to be pretty dire right now. The nikkei seems to be the outlier given that they were closed on friday. Haslinda taking a look at where we are right now. We talk about how we are down 3 , the selloff making chinese stocks pretty cheap. At least 20 low the 10 year average. Sti down about 70 . Singapore allies, that stock is slumping after canceling 90 of capacity. Year to date, down about 33 . Crude currently down about 1 on in termsof a 23 slide of crude prices just last week. 1500, way off from what we were expecting late last year, inching toward 1800. Yvonne lets get more context with our Bloomberg Markets coag or, david ingles coanchor, david ingles. He is at home. What stood out to you . Boj firsthad the expanding more than it was originally planning. New zealand with the big announcement this morning that they are also planning to undertake some sort of qe as well. Australia has also widened the scope of its bond buying operatio
Markets i treasuries as well. The aussie 10 year yield down 16 basis points and money rush into the end. Oil in a bit of a freefall once again. Brent crude down more than 6. 5 . We areke below 20 and watching indonesia here in particular just coming online. The stock index drops re. 5 . Once again, we are seeing a lot of these em volatilities, back once again. We are watching the pboc after that interesting move to cut the seven day repo rate by 20 basis points so they are joining in on the stimulus ways. Lets get more on this with david ingles coming forward. We are watching u. S. Futures in particular continue to head lower. Lets start with the 7 billion injection into the system. I mean, quite a bit. David yes. A couple of things i guess to get out there. You dont normally see a reduction of this magnitude from the pboc. You also have to consider the fact that we know the economy is not doing well and in fact, the latest forecasts now suggest quarter on quarter, you take the median.
Rally, talk about a turnaround. South korea, hong kong, japan investors moving away from haven place. Remember, china had been quite an out performer. The hang seng currently up 3 . We are hearing chinese buyers are buying up those stocks in hong kong. Lets look at where futures are setting up. We see futures pointing to a higher open. It has been a volatile right. Ride. Futures volatile equity futures down about 1 despite jumps in the s p 500 and the dow. Aide, saying that the deal may not be up and running just yet. Flip the page and look at where we are, the kiwi dollar tokening further, starting buy bonds to stimulate the economy, and look at that, down 1. 7 . It is moving just like the stock market. People were saying bitcoin was a haven play. for more context in the markets, david ingles our coanchor joins us. David, could we say this is the end of the route, or a bear market rally . David it is hard to say if this is the bottom. Once markets stop reacting, that is when you know
In infections or deaths could mean the tokyo economy could go in reverse. There is cautious optimism in europe. Spain and italy reported a decline in infection rates as people are told to stayathome over the easter break. Haidi we are getting breaking news out of south korea. The latest reading of the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic having on this explosive economy. Of threetting a plunge point 8 when it comes to Industrial Production. That is actually better than the survey. We were expecting a contraction to the tune of four point 5 but 3. 8 percent contraction, worse than a contraction we saw in the month of january. When it comes to the year on year number, 11. 4 gained. A lot better than the 3. 4 that was surveyed and bouncing back well and truly from a contraction of 2. 4 percent. Seasonality issues will also be at play but we are expecting to it continued disruption when comes to supply chains, manufacturing, and overall industrial productivity and activity in korea a