On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp
Tom jon, get out of the sand trap, or whatever he said last night. Just absolutely extraordinary. We have been talking about it all morning. I would think the worldwide audience must be. Just extraordinary. Can we also note there is a job economy coming up, and maybe the next debate they can talk about where this unemployment factor is maybe going . Jonathan and maybe the csuite is still very strategic about when they drop bad news. The Walt Disney Company talking about dropping 28,000 jobs a few hours before debate. Tom well said. Jonathan it is amazing for me to wake up this morning, to watch back at that debate and hear the former Vice President call a sitting president a racist, and it doesnt even register. It is not even a headline this morning. That speaks to where we are at currently in the political discourse in washington, d. C. Tom some of the discussions on the white super missy issue last night are beneath the fold because of the turmoil, the emotion, the rage and the rank
To the right with his choice of amy coney barrett. It would make it a 63 conservative split. Hitting a high know. Aims top behind bts raise 800 million in koreas largest ipo in years. Lets take a look at how we are setting up for the asian trading session. They hope to follow the momentum we saw in the u. S. Session on friday in particular with these gains in tech stocks. S p futures looking pretty positive,. 3 . Optimism as we get to the open in tokyo. A quiet first half of the week. We do have japanese throughput later on this week as well as decisions out of the philippines as well as india. Disney futures up by. 3 , as they continue to see growing concerns about the impact on the economy when some of these fiscal support measures start to peter out. We do have some optimistic news when it comes to the listing in victoria. New zealand off by 1. 5 . Dragged down by some of the dairy names. Tom the clock is ticking on tiktok. We are in our way from trumps ban that takes place midnight
Further. We are joined this hour by finance minister. The other big story today, lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. Saystitrust investigation they are abusing their dominant status. Australia coming online. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong with a checkup on markets. A two day rise, we are seeing pressure come through for the benchmark while the aussie dollar is testing that 71 popl after forming a double early this october. We are seeing action in the bond space. The front end of the aussie curb slipping with the three year yield falling as much as four basis points earlier in the session. This after australias updated debt issuance coming in less than expected. I want to highlight bhp shares. We are seeing the stock fall as much as 2. 3 this morning. Tesla bhp in focus be at flipping the board to check in on futures, s p eminis under pressure. The yen trading study but theres upward pressure on the stimulus deadlock. We are watching iphone makers aft
Finalizing a blank check operation around the frenzy. Haidi trying to take that winning streak into a seventh straight session. Retrading pretty optimistically. We are seeing gains about. 25 when it comes out the gate. The aussie dollar trading on the back. We are seeing gains for almost two weeks straight now ahead of the federal election. At kiwi dollar is sitting 37. We are seeing almost no change through the open. Have nikkei futures not doing much at the moment. Is at a oneweek high the u. S. Dollar dollar. 15 on year. E than from those that we saw in session. Operations restarting. Speak, theng, as we morning training trading has been lead due to the storm. We are talking about the Tropical Storm being upgraded to a storm signal eight. Options have been delayed. They will make a further later, but there will be no morning a warning isuch lowered. Dominating across the markets. Lets turn to tom mackenzie. We have been talking about trade tensions when it comes to australia. Haidi