The opecplus curbs doing little for the global glut. The virus drags on demand. Policymakers are focused on the Economic Impact of the virus. We will hear from a policymaker later this hour. Shery we are seeing downside for u. S. Futures. This coming on the back of a second straight week of gains. We have seen coronavirus cases start the United States to stabilize. We are seeing coronavirus debts and cases here in new york coronavirus cases here in new york start to decline. Brent is down. There was a loss of 8. 5 on friday. There is a gloomy outlook on oil prices, wti at the lowest level on record. Haidi we have been listening into President Trump speaking at the daily Coronavirus Briefing at the white house, talking about additional testing and stimulus and conversations with the democrats coming close to a deal. President trump saying Vice President mike pence will be helping having discussions with u. S. Governors when it comes to shortcomings in testing in information will go ahea
The left column, a lot of those names in the green. Banking names as well. The rest of the region still seeing a lot of pressure. The split is tilted towards more downside. In terms of the sector groups as well, the similar to what we have seen. Youre getting a lot of upside in names like resources, banks, financials are seeing pressure overall. Down for a sixth straight session. 25 from the peak a couple of eci weeks ago. Yvonne back from the slopes. And back in hong kong. Steve, we have been talking about that pivot from President Trump. Painting a dire outlook on this outbreak in the u. S. Why . Wasell, i hope that he looking at the data and also seeing what other, even local news abilities are doing in the United States, cites and states aswell cities and well those in europe and they are taking this very seriously. And donald trump says it is bad. He repeated that. Its bad, its bad. He said this could last until august or even later. Hes calling it an invisible lining. Yo enemy. Y
Expecting 8. 6 and were getting 17. 7 . Those numbers getting close to the new years chinese holiday. Maybe there is a seasonal effect on these numbers. Rishaad these are good numbers, 17 . Lets have a look. We will have a look at what is going on with dollar numbers. Lets wait for that. Exports, in dollar terms. Do not have the dollar number yet. Nikkei up 0. 8 . At 29,000. Asx moving tohe the upside. Front andd the yuan center. 110 since may 24 or Something Like that. Getting more and more strong. 6. 87 . More strength coming through with the yuan. That could be down to what we are seeing with export, import and trade numbers. Yvonne these numbers when it comes to 2019, exports rising 5 from a year ago. Imports rising 1. 6 . The trade balance coming to 2. 92 billion renminbi. It seemshole year, things were looking better and not as bad as forecasted. Still in the green. David people would say it is backward looking data, but when you look at the trend, things are getting better. That
Estimates by about 0. 30. Revenue was also better than estimated, and they see revenue up, so that stock jumping in the premarket. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to brussels, des moines, iowa and new york, our bloomberg forces are on the ground with the latest top stories. Chinese growth and imports beat expectations. With us from hong kong is in the curran. Is enda walk us through the numbers. Numbers. Ty good a couple of factors behind these good trade numbers, sentiment was much better in the month of december and late last year in advance of the trade agreement that is going to be signed this week. There was an element of front running of the orders because in Chinese New Year falls january. A base effect gives the numbers a bit of a polish, but also importantly, china found new markets even as it suffered from tariffs on its goods going into , and even into europe. Nd Southeast Asia total chinese exp
Have a problem. They always criticize us for business just for the art of criticism the engine off. Chinese investors in our countries but you know what im telling you is that there are 16 months by Chinese Companies in hungary. 16 or. So of the american german is in hungary immediately became chinese investments so what we can do for. Know how so the thing is that we are always criticised. On the raises the same questions on the german chancellor and the french president together meet the chinese leadership and so. You know. How do you explain that is there. Different tiers different sets of. Different territorial number one this is double standards and number 2 that as i told you at the beginning making business with china is beneficial they dont like to have us as competitors its a competition issue now the Decision Making is supposed to be based on consensus which is more than just looking for a compromise or foreign and bargain its actually derived a learned just recently that der