To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
Politics at home and abroad for years to come. The ipo has taken a dramatic turn with jack ma and other executives summoned by regulators. The company ahead of scrutiny. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the october Consumer Price numbers. Month for month, we are seeing a contraction of 0. 6 , really missing expectations of analysts. Not to mention it is a slow down and Inflation Numbers from the previous month. Not surprising given we had a pickup because of the weather related issues. We had monsoon season. And lowerlf Pressure Energy prices. Growth of prices is only. 1 which is a deceleration from the previous year. Not to mention it is under analysts expectations. Only in october we saw bright about 30 lower on average compared to a year ago so we are getting pressure on both numbers. For now, lets turn to the market. We are seeing u. S. Futures slightly higher online. Lets turn to sophie in hong kong. S p adding about 1 10 of 1 at the start of the session in a
We can make a difference by choosing Smart New Solutions overstrained said in our ways. The idea is to limit to a series of includes those and only. The coronavirus pandemic is a corruption crisis a new report says the countries where Citizens Trust their governments the least are coping the worst well look at whos leading the way and whos lagging behind in the latest Corruption Perception index. A combination of crises gives boeing a battering plane maker announces a record loss for 2020 well find out why. And well meet the british stilton exporters who are cheesed off to put it a british way about the new breaks it bureaucracy this is due to be a business in berlin welcome to the program. Now little is as important during a pandemic as the countrys Health Care System but like other sections of government they can be subject to Corruption Transparency international has again ranked countries around the world in terms of how corrupt their citizens perceive them to be particularly when
Coronavirus restrictions by taking a trade behind closed doors. This is the view of dictator when you business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. Now little is important during a pandemic as a countrys Health Care System but like other sections of government they can be subject to Corruption Transparency international has again ranked countries around the world in terms of how corrupt their citizens perceive them to be particularly when it comes to the misuse of public money looking at the Coronavirus Crisis the group says that countries the perform well on the index invest more in health care and are better able to provide universal Health Coverage lets have a look at where that would be topping the list with the least perceived corruption are a few European Countries that weve got australia and new zealand and then in asia weve also got japan hong kong. And singapore among others elsewhere in the world a little further down the list we see countries where a small level of co
Both sides did hold phone talks adding recent contexts dont have the significance that the president suggested. President trump and treasury secretary mnuchin were asked about that report and here is how they responded. I dont know what you mean by that low level, the vice premier is low level, i dont think so. What is the position of the gentleman who was quoted in the newspaper today . Came out with a very significant and we communicated the vice premier of china thats not low level. I agree the statement that was spoken before me was are you ware of the calls happening . President trump and his french counterpart Emmanuel Macron will hold a joint News Conference, perhaps as soon as half hour from now well see. When it is held, of course, we will go live to it a lot to digest this morning i guess first thing i would share to you to bring it back to the markets, making my usual calls this morning of a number of asset managers, you get a resounding theme, which is this is an untradable