Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. E have great guests coming your way. First thing a check on your markets. This is what we have seen overnight. The dollar gained on the back of what we heard from janet yellen. Probably one of the most significant things that were watching. Were watching dollar and the bloomberg u. S. Dollar index and also im interested in crude oil. We had the i. A. Report yesterday. It traded at 45 a barrel. A couple of big investors said it means it is probably going to change the trade wagon and what we also need to look at is some of the australian bonds after we saw the rally yesterday in treasuries and were looking at swiss u. Now lets get straight to the first word news. In the u. S. , the special council investigating russias interference in the 2016 election will examine whether trump tried to slow the probe into michael flynn. The move expand scope of the investigation. Meanwhile trump and his wife melania
Means a fed hike moving to the back burner. We have the numbers from the latest Hong Kong Survey and discuss the implications of tokyos election results. A terrible outcome for the Prime Minister. Tensions in north asia as north korea continues to worry leaders around the world. We will get an update from beijing on the latest. This is Bloomberg Markets asia. I am betty liu here in new york. It is just after 7 00 a. M. In hong kong. Busy monday in asia with president xi jinping delivering that 20th Anniversary Gift hong kong, right . The bond connects set to launch this morning. We are expecting a ceremony at 9 00 in hong kong. Also, japan as well, a major setback for Prime Minister shinzo of days party shinzo abes party. We are looking at manufacturing a sectors and how they fared. The Manufacturing Sector has probably done pretty well in japan. Exceptingght, msci china ashares, and now the bond things, so it looks like are on fire there in china. We will see how things go. Setting up
Bloomberg. This is what im seeing across the board. Theres a little bit of sidewayson moving for these equity movements. They seem to be tracking gains across asia. Traditional assets, the Dollar Strengthening the crude oil will keep an eye on that at just below 48. What could straight to the bloomberg first word news. On for thisame north korea this after kim jongun threatened to do just that. Any military action would require his nations approval. The German Economy extended its growth to the Second Quarter. That is just below the estimates in the Bloomberg Survey. It will come as welcome news for Angela Merkel. Asked hownt trump has china handles intellectual property. Beijings ministry of commerce responded by saying any protection would damage economic relations and hurt the business interest of both countries. And bill dudley says it is reasonable to plan next month. He also said he supports another Interest Rate increase this year if the economy evolves at we continue to monitor
Lets spend a couple of seconds thinking about the beautifully written speech that president obama said it was an historic speech and it really important one. Tom and some controversy on both sides. Did you see the headline come across the bloomberg from Prime Minister abbe . Many Young Americans died in the war. That is an extraordinary headline to see the president and the Prime Minister with the memorial behind them. This is deeply emotional from my childhood. That is not a church. Although it has bordered on a religious moment. Hiroshima hall, arguably one of the great World Heritage site. Just extraordinary to see this moment. I was caught by the president speaking of a terrible force. We know he will meet with for survivors of that 1945 bombing. Get to the bloomberg first word news. Ine of president obama hiroshima. Historydent obama made moments ago in japan, the first sitting president to visit hiroshima. The president placed a wreath at ground zero. He said the bombing shows th
We will get justice for freddie gray. Believe you me, we will get justice. Were going to Work Together. If, with the nation watching three black women at three Different Levels cant get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we are going to get it. Olivia anger is spreading beyond baltimore. Marchers in philadelphia clashed with officers. Some protesters tried to break through a line police set up near highway. Police say there were two arrests. Elon musk reveals his latest enterprise and makes sweeping predictions. He unveiled his powerwall batteries designed for homes and businesses. Solar panels and service a backup during outages. He stresses his plans could lead to pollutionfree Energy Production. We want to show people this is possible that that is the future we could have. Where the curve slowly rolls over and goes to zero. That is the future we need to have. And that is something and the path of talked about the solar panels and the batteries, that is the onl