Market is on edge as he stoked speculation on who will head the fed. Yousef 5 00 a. M. And london in london. I am yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Rishaad i am Rishaad Salamat in hong kong. Hong kong stocks coming back online. Is earning release. Its earning release. Beating estimates. Something you flagged up, new money, yousef, right . Yousef exactly. Net new money, reversing what has been an outflow in the prior period. In terms of the other asset prices we are watching, before we get to that, a reminder that the finance director joined us in half an hour to discuss the results to be able to flush out some of the details. A lot of the questions around of the buybacks. A lot of variables here. To an into that. Also, to return to some of the market themes, which continues to hover above 60 per barrel. Confidence in the opec agreement been extended. Futures underperforming gold still. A little bit of upside at 16. 78. The u. S. Treasury is currently bonding for the benchmark index and the
A very warm welcome. I am anna edwards. Said, why about in terms of the oil market. What are the consequences of commodities . Look at this . You have that economic surprises. The Commodity Index down four days in a blow. Oil down 11 this week. There was a lovely piece, if you are long commodities, our condolences. That is an understatement. Anna we have seen weakness in the commodities space. Prices down another 3 . A focus on the oil price. It is interesting to debate whether this is about demand, specific commodities, or the chinese growth story. Broaderisk radar, the commodity story. Here we have got the iron or ore futures, down 7. 7 percent. A weekday yesterday, down. They aussie dollar. The worst performing currency after the Canadian Dollar. Heading for another legally weekly loss. Market, the question you need to ask yourself as you look at iron ore futures, these moves are not the harbingers of recession. We have gone from an upbeat view temporary reprieve. Turning it over to
We have the world covered here on daybreak asia with the wrapup from the trade ministers meeting over the weekend. Help President Trump fared in riyadh shortly. This is daybreak asia. I am betty liu in new york. A. M. In just after 7 00 hong kong. Political risk will be dominating the headlines once again this week. The first leg of President Trumps middle east trip. It seems as so far so good, the opec meeting, the fed meeting this week, but plenty on investors place. Ceos like lots and lots of money being invested in their own home country, so pretty smooth sailing as you say, but there are still a lot of questions about the Political Risks. You saw Goldman Sachs taking down their target for the 2. 75 , ayield down to bearish a signal there. Markets have been choppy, but we have not seen total collapse. On jamesld depend comey when he testifies this weekend whether we get new information over the russian meddling scandal. See how things going. Asia kicking off so far, following the l
And, asiapacific trade ministers concerned about rising protectionism, but no mention of it in their postsummit statement in hanoi. The start of the brandnew asian trading week. It is all about oil. We are fast approaching that meeting in vienna. The markets have pretty much priced and that ninemonth extension. Latest over the weekend, we are hearing that saudi arabia saying all opec producers are up for this extension. Take a look at this chart in terms of where Price Expectations are going. That front month the vti with the nearest expiration contract, converging at 50, so whether the news has 10 baked in or there is further upside when it comes to that oil price, even if we get that extension, and the flip side of that story is where u. S. Shale production goes from here, because the biggest opecion has not been producer sticking to their end of the bargain as opposed to whether their efforts are being undermined by increasing levels of u. S. Production. We have seen u. S. Inventori
Im anna edwards. Matt and im matt miller here in berlin. Risk lets put up the radar and show everybody where we are on the overnight session, the asian trading day higher on equities. The msci asiapacific of 5. 8 . Of by. 8 for the price of a barrel of crude. Were indiana and will get more from manus shortly on the program indiana. The russians talking about the option for a further extension. So these facts very much in focus and is the move in the dollar, a little weaker on those sentiments. Concerns about inflation lead to questions about what happens thereafter. Matt that was interesting to me, we saw treasuries yesterday actually get on up, which at that was fascinating, after the notes came, the minutes came out , we saw note get off. Right now are looking at 2. 25 as the yields on the teen your climb back up a little bit today. Fallen by 1. 3 yesterday. Maybe stabilizing today. Then you see the renminbi right now down a little, but it had gone up yesterday as well. For is how ma