Much bigger problem. Hello and welcome to daybreak asia. Im in haidi lun. In newim betty liu york. Some investors here watching the and saying is that a ticking time bomb that eventually will go so high that it only has one direction which is down. And big correction. So far, so good. I want to pull up a chart here. What is so fascinating, the vertical lines that you see represent days when all three indexes, the s p, nasdaq and dow, reached records. Take a look at how many of those days we have had in just the last four months of this year. We kind of took a break in the middle, and big gap but look at this as we continue to head towards the end of 2017. No doubt a big santa claus rally, right . Haidi absolutely. You look at that. I know we get the occasional pullback but for the large part it is defying gravity. It feels with the momentum building intoit feels with the m building into tax, we will get something before christmas, that we are squeezing everything out of visible run bef
Keeping an eye on some of these gaming stocks when the session comes alive and a half hour. The situation when it comes to massmarket vs vip. Turquoise is the color for the mass gaining market. To itsprofits surge highest before a chinese ernment correction government corruption crackdown. Two years before restrictions sent profits tumbling. A sign that the industry could be singing these records again next year, before hitting a new peak in 2019. Expected policy changes out of beijing could be the major headwind. Revenues could rise 14 next year, according to our survey. The ip gamers expected vip g expected to be the key driver. We will have a look at holdings when the session gets underway. Haidi just in time for the holidays. Going into Chinese New Year as well. It is interesting, that breakdown. They are expecting a expected ty pickup in the vip and also massmarket. It is an interesting session, a subdued session when it comes to equity leads, getting closer and closer to the chri
This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Lets have a look at whats been going on. There has been a steeping of the yield curve going on, more flattening taking place. What we have is perhaps an economic slowdown in prospect. Lets have a look at this chart. It goes back to 1986 and it tracks whats going on in the white line into the two to 10 year yield spread. That is indicated by this axis here. Just over 60 basis points between the two of them. The green line is where gdp is. This is inverted. You can the lowest number of growth here, 4 contraction. What happens next is that the yield curve perhaps sees more flattening. We see growth has been improving of late. What happens in the future . We have a strong correlation between the two of them. One of the head scratchers in terms of what we been looking at this year. We had off to christmas break and volatility has been settling going lower, that if we can hold on to the moment in what we are seeing for this rally, we are going to see the asiap
Going forward, we see better days ahead. Rishaad the Imfs Christine Lagarde looks forward to the year to come. This region, asia, is going to continue to be a Global Growth engine. Rishaad it is all straight ahead on this special edition of bloomberg best. Rishaad hello and welcome, im Rishaad Salamat on this special edition of bloomberg best. We look back at 2017 in asia, revisiting the years most interesting interviews with newsmakers, policymakers, and leading figures in business. Lets start with Stephen Engles indepth conversation with alibabas jack ma. We were granted rare access to him in his headquarters in china as the companys celebrated its 18th birthday. Alibaba has enjoyed massive growth in 2017 and a rapidly evolving ecosystem of Chinese Technology companies. Jack ma spoke with Stephen Engle about competition and regulation in this new environment. The speed of the internet era oftentimes blurs the line of regulation, and you push the boundary, push the boundary, and then
Rishaad going to bring you up some history. Another record for the s p 500 recordht good 2017s year does not necessarily mean that 2018 is going to be a bad one. Lets bring up for two to three. Ityou have a great year, means quite often that you will get not a good year the following. Thats the synopsis we have going back to 1938 todays game, not tomorrow spain. The s p 500 on track for a 20 increase last year. It was matched 20 times in the last 80 years. Higherck market was three quarters of the time averaging 89 return here in averaging a 9 return. Haidi what is incredible is that we are not seeing a rotation. Were seeing a continuation of the tremendous tech rally. Here in asia, we are picking up on that positive energy. Not just for the s p, but also records for the nasdaq. Depressing 7000 points. Tokyo still off until thursday. Asia markets feeling this positive start to the year. Japanese investors can enjoy their holiday a little bit longer. We do have docs continuing to gain a