Asia. Rishaad starting the program looking at the major benchmarks around the world. Index, lets have a look at what it has been going on since last anywhere he. January. White, last january. The green line, looks at the magnitude and speed of price fluctuations. 70 seems to be overbought or undersold. And we have the world index, showing the euphoria around the world is gripping the whole world, as opposed to just the msci emerging markets indicator, purple. And then we have the asiapacific index, the secondmost overbought one as well. There we have it, heidi. The party goes on for the time being. Heidi do these technicals part of something that could be in the way of a correction . Europe might be the only one that has a bit of room to move. A number of key events could pull this different directions. The u. S. Laterin this week. Japan is back in trading action after the threeday break. 24,000, Japanese Equities looking at the highest since 1991. Take a look at the action. We will se
Family. Haidi it is very much in focus today after the pboc removed a pillar of support for the currency. Dropping from the daily session. The currency lower on tuesday. Tom, it is not been in place very long. Why have they chosen to remove year, since may of last that is the first element from the mix. It is dollar weakness. Many say it is a line in the sand. They say they oppose the controls. There is a growing confidence now in terms of policymakers here in terms of the trajectory of the one. Comfortable enough to relinquish elements of control. Thats what they have seen. Charthave a terminal showing the placement of this back in may. N strengthen. Ua that is when you saw the dollar ticking up. Versus the u. S. Dollar. We should expect now a little bit more volatility around theyuan now. Is how question really much forward this leads up in terms of a greater market role for the currency. They could widen the trading band. Right now they are allowed to move up 2 or down 2 . They coul
Mining fees set to surge after china crack down on bitcoin operations. Another day, another on bitcoin, right . We cant stop watching the cryptocurrency markets, but so watching lots of Economic Data. I want to just point out one that we had this morning. Jobless claims spiking tota threemonth high. Guys, take my chart. 5444, these numbers can be quite volatile. N september, those jobless on the backrose of the hurricanes. However, as you can see, relatively low still against the back drop of what weve seen in the last few years, isnt really any that there is a turnaround here in the jobs market. This tight labor market es to get tighter and tighter which means, of course, well continue to hiking rates. Yeah. That we n the fact past now eform what does this mean for companies . Saw walmart with news of raising the minimum wage to 11 per hour. Tight in the you cant t exactly add more jobs but aising wages, that will be ey, although there are a lot of questions, how much will that add to
Beijing may finally be winning its war on smog. Plenty more on those stories over the next couple of hours. Calendar today is trade numbers out of china for the month of december appeared rounding out has been a year of significant recovery when it comes to chinese exports in particular. 5643. After the declines over the past couple of years we do see two years of decline followed by that recovery. We are looking at december, a 10 year on year rise when it comes to exports coming in dollar terms. Thats a little moderation from novembers 12. 3 rise. Imports looking to pick up significantly. The brighter spots in that. Continuing to paint a picture of synchronized global recovery. Such a stronghad base to come off of in 2017 we might be struggling to hit doubledigit numbers in 2018 for exports. Certainly there is also the cloud of trade tensions between the u. S. And china lurking ever in the background. We are 30 minutes away from the opening china and hong kong. Sophie, we were thinkin
Venture. Hello, from sydney. We are an hour away from markets. Betty it is after 5 00 p. M. In new york. Im betty liu. We will be looking at how all the wall street will play in to the trading day. What a day at was. Hotter than expected Inflation Numbers coming out on the morning. Jpmorgan earnings coming out also adding to the bullish sentiment here in the u. S. The s p ending at record territory, up 7 10 of 1 . The dow adding on another 200 points. The nasdaq also rising, up 7 10 of 1 . Good town. G a particularly when it comes to tax reform. And that bonanza you mention from the start for banks like jpm. We have huge Bank Earnings week this week. That will set the tone. Haidi absolutely. Inc. Earnings in focuses week. But also, also china filling out the macro. We have some rate decisions out of asia Central Banks. Take a look at the setup and asia. We have positivity coming through when it comes to the sydney and tokyo opens. New zealand trading is underway. The kiwi dollar tradin