Index, just marginally down. The real story has been the bounceback after last weeks fall for bitcoin, approaching record highs. 19,595. 1. 1 to the upside. Drivings within opec that crude oil price down. Lets look at what is going on in the emerging market context. Asian markets are bouncing back nicely after yesterdays big move to the downside. What has been responsible for this change in mood . , onethink first of all should partly see yesterdays price action as an anomaly. I think the Way Investors are now returning to the positive things like easy fed policy, Global Economic recovery, which was confirmed by asian pmis and the index that just came out, and optimism about vaccines. Juliette and your team has written a piece on the e. M. Currency outlook for 2021. It reads quite positively. What is the basis for all that optimism . Maybe there are three reasons. First, valuation. We believe that emfx is undervalued and conditions should be conducive to pushing them into overvalued te
Nasdaq. Now, here are the negative for stocks today. Dr. Fauci suggesting a lockdown christmas. Why . With all the traveling and celebrating we did over thanksgiving, its expected to produce a new round of infections that will in turn require a new round of restrictions. Well have more on this throughout the show. I get the impression were being treated like children, punished for celebrating our national holiday, but dont get me started. One more item. The biden team takes shape, very similar to the Obama Biden Team that left Washington Four years ago. Neera tanden could go to the budget office, Jared Bernstein expected to become a president ial adviser, he was Vice President bidens chief economist, and back to the future . Sure looks like it, doesnt it . On the show today, the priceline ceo offering deals to get people back to travel. The waffle house ceo, hes pounding the table, keep dining rooms open, hes pleading. And mrs. Fields cookies, their ceo somehow has to replace the reven
The Trump Administration overstepped its authority. Ntt reportedly planned to take its wireless carrier unit private. At buyout could be valued 38 billion. At thebreaking news moment. We are getting Industrial Production numbers for south korea. Year on year, it should be for the month of august, a decline of 3 , matching expectations, and bigger declines than the previous month. We continue to see some weakness year on year. Industrial production numbers have been in contraction for five consecutive months. When it comes to the previous month numbers, they have been revised slightly upwards but not by much. Month on month, a contraction of 0. 7 which is a contraction instead of just coming in flat as expected so that is disappointing numbers. Perhaps we could see some better numbers later in the year. We do have trade numbers for the month of september. We are expecting it to come up on thursday and exports are likely to see an annual gain in september so lets watch out for those numb
Bloomberg surveillance, im Francine Lacqua in london. There is movement on the pound because what we heard from the boe. It has been absolutely amazing trying to figure out exactly the premise at which mr. Bailey is expecting the economy to do. We understand the bank of england is expanding stimulus as soon as next month to help the battered u. K. Economy. He once again reiterated that there is an unwavering pledge, which basically means that the market is taking it as further boe action possibly being imminent. Set and of england will asked if necessary to deliver the monetary and Financial Stability to deliver longterm Financial Stability. We are speaking to governor bailey later on. Know whether that means we have negative rates next, but certainly to have an impact on euro. I thing we have a data board for you. Is an actionfilled Currency Central Bank kind of day as we also heard of a lowered benchmark rate from norges bank. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Top t
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