Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve
Asiapacific benchmark. Jakarta coming online. Of 1 . F 6 10 u. S. Futures are flat and so are nifty futures. At thatbe looking downgrade of indias outlook to negative. The country at risk of falling into junk status. When it comes to some of these markets, singapore reopening phase two today. The peak p, is the biggest loser on the board. Elevated. Ocks are we are expecting that we could see some action from the pboc in the next coming days. Could we see it in the form of a triple are cut . The chinese bond market has stalled a bit. We are still seeing yields go lower today. Take a look at currencies first. The dollar set for a second week of gains right now. We are watching the pound really closely. The bank of england expanded by qe program. Renminbi is steady around 708. The rupiah, we are focusing on that. B. I. Cut rates yesterday. More easing to come. Trend is steepening getting tired right now. Businesses have fears of a second wave. U. S. 10 year is down to 70 basis points righ
We will talk about in a next hour as well. We will be speaking about juneteenth and what companies should be doing to improve diversity and inclusion with vivian hunt from mckinsey. A big event here in the u. S. , lots of events participating in that in the holiday. We will break that down and what it means for renting for u. S. Companies as well. This could be the Third Largest none december exploration on record for Macro Risk Advisors founder. She will be joining us. We also have all this volatility into the squad winching dust into the cour quadruple winching. How does this play out . One of the trends we have seen in Options Market over the last several years that has is that folksated are vying incredibly short dated options, the shortest, as short as one day. Leaderboard is that it expires in one day. It is a unique way of trading. I would not say it is gambling, but it is not exactly investing either. A lot of the stuff rolling off was put on as late as this week. When we looke
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back
A 100000 people have died in the u. S. But businesses are reopening across the country and an unusual discovery outside mexicos capital archaeologist dig up one of the most famous mammals of the ice age. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with breaking news out of beijing where the National Peoples congress has given the go ahead for a new set of security laws to be implemented in hong kong despite protests and International Warnings the wide ranging laws which include a ban on treason secession sedition and subversion could now be in effect in a matter of weeks why yanni jansha shank that this is a major move to practice to one country 2 systems principle its in line with chinas constitution hong kongs basic law and in line with the interests of mainland chinas people as well as hold. The residents the n. P. C. Will also have the following legislation to safeguard National Security sovereignty and development interests as well as hong kongs long term prosperity and stability.