York and hong kong. The tough story this is hour. Investors await caution ahead of china inflation. Bloomberg has learned that the u. S. Is set to limit the scope of the ban on investment in Chinese Companies as it seeks to covert the damage to relations with beijing. Plus, we get the main line business and Economic Outlook speaking exclusively with the d. B. S. We have the jobless rate for the month of july coming in at 2. 8 . This is higher than the previous month of june 2. 6 . Its higher rate than economists have expected. We did have heavy rain since mid july. Also weak growth. Still, you have to put it into context. The 10year average for the jobless rate in korea has been 3. 6 . Post pandemic average has been 3. 4 . So yes, its a rise in the jobless rate to 2. 8 . But its still a resilient jobs number. And something that will make the bank of korea give more grounds for keeping as Monetary Policy when it decides on rates later this month. Annabelle. Alongside tokyo and sidney. B
We are down on the hang seng index, jakartas coming online. We are also seeing u. S. Futures starting to also point lower. We have a series of data points, we should be watching out for trade numbers, inflation is out tomorrow. Im wondering if the market is starting to sniff out a soft inflation number. What is top of mind for you . Yvonne yeah. You mentioned what is going on when it comes to the macro picture. The whole recession debate in the u. S. Is lingering in the bond market. You have the likes of goldman, Morgan Stanley saying, save the move we saw last week that was a bit overdone and by treasuries, its a sign that that may be what we saw was a bit too far. They are talking about going bullish when it comes to the fiveyear for jp morgan, going along when it comes to 30 year tips. They are seeing signs that maybe we are not really the news did not really drive it. The boj was tweaking, the downgrade on u. S. Debt also all of which is what goldman is saying is not showing meanin
Good evening the top stories this hour. Bloomberg learns the u. S. Is set to limit its scope. U. S. Stocks slip on worries about the economy and financial system. Moodys downgrades 10 smaller lenders. They did finish off session lows, the s p 500 lost more than 1 at one point and it recouped half of the losses. We had a haven demand not to mention moves despite the fact we are bracing for the 100 billion wave of options but have to be digested this week. Take a look at crude prices down. 2 after gaining ground in the new york session. We heard from the ukrainian president talking about retaliation and russia continues to block the reports. Its all about the after our session. Look at the bank because we are looking at huge losses. That overshadowed better than expected outlook for earnings that had seen the stock rally earlier on. Supply Chain Disruption said ease, but they expect heavy losses to continue as a boost production and we work plunging. Doubt about their ability to continue
Kathleen youre watching daybreak asia, coming to you live from new york and hong kong. Autonomous where coming down to asias major market open. Haidi oil hitting a high for the year on investors settling for a 10 year yield below 4 in the latest treasury auction. Disney gaining after the bell and a folk at forecast for lower Capital Spending. China says u. S. Is weaponizing trade as President Biden signs an executive order limiting investment in some of his companies. Kathleen lets take a look at u. S. Futures. It was a down day in stocks ahead of that big cpi report in the next 24 hours. You can see a bounce back but at the close, the nasdaq was down about 1. 2 . The s p 500 down 7 10 of 1 . Nvidia, big move down. One of our reporters saying earlier that people wonder what has gotten the cpi report so nvidia was down, tesla was down, amazon was down and then there was a big surge in lng prices. 28 in europe, caused by the threat of a strike in australia among Union Workers there. Coup
Definitely macro driven. That has been the narrative from the getgo. Earnings season providing a brief interlude where we look at companies to deceive much happening you look at whats happening with the earnings and where we go from here but then we step snap back to talk about the macro. Earnings news isnt sufficient to move the markets at an index level so we are waiting for a macro catalyst at the back end of the week. Bottom up, 8. 2 on the downside, this company clearly has problems in terms of manufacturing and contracts. We will see how it starts later this week. The ubs story is interesting as well. It was a great exclusive in terms of the management shift, the stock up 4 10 of 1 . It still feels like a macro story and where does that leave europe . That remains a key question. Alix the s p is up. 5 . Volume isnt terrible and i found that to be interesting. Talking about micro a bit you have tyson and apple. Down over 2 its the longest losing streak for apple since december aft