At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
Haslinda, what are you seeing . Haslinda Industrial Production coming from march showing a strong recovery momentum. We saw what happened in march. It is pulling back from a historical plunge in the first two months of the year. Still there are some challenges if you take a look at the supply chain. China still faces supply risks from a global lucked out. Factory production global lockdown. Factory production still shut down in many parts. Bloomberg intelligence saying 70 of chinas imports were used for production in 2015. Still strong numbers in terms of Industrial Production coming in at 3. 9 versus the estimate of 1. 5 . If you want to track the trajectory Going Forward, we have to track those economies like korea, japan, taiwan. They supply china with the most technology parts, the u. S. And germany, even brazil. As long as they are not emerging from the lockdown in their respective countries, it wont be in issue for chinas own production. Industrial production for china year on ye
Night, caterpillar warning this morning. Money moving into the bond market. Yields lower by about two basis points. Time now for global exchange. And london to you new york washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. U. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson will Face Parliament after lawmakers blocked his plan to rush the deal into law. We now face further uncertainty, and the e. U. Must now make up their minds over how to answer parliaments request for a delay. Alix European Council president donald tusk earlier signaled that the eu was likely to do. In order to avoid a theeal brexit, i recommend eu 27 except the u. K. Request for an extension. For this i will propose a written procedure. Anna edwards is in westminster. Anna the Prime Minister is concerned. There are two paths that could lie ahead. One of them is to change the type of the existing agreement billed to give it another chance in parliament, to see if it can get support after its got more
Interest rate cuts in the offing. Will it between 25 basis points or will they do what they did this time yesterday you can that is currently in position at the moment, so we had the economic number coming in weaker than expected. Checking the markets, lets see what is going on. We did match the longest losing streak. Did not quite actually make it here longest moving streak since 1980. This is what we have in a moment, this is the position. 1. 1 , a bit of a really for the hang seng, nikkei. Lets have a look at what we have at the moment. 7. 04. We go, we have gold futures, down at the moment but still above 1500. Coming through with a gain of about 2. 75 . This is saudi arabia, prompting Oil Producers to develop responses to the oil price slide. Terrain. Et u. S. 10year yield creeping up a fraction. Elsewhere, we see the bond rally continue. Lets get more on the philippines gdp numbers. Joining us from Goldman Sachs is. Hief asiapacific economist there was conference run remittances
Speaker paul ryan had to quell a revolt. From bloombergs global headquarters, miami new york. Cannot in the new york we are just past 6 00 p. M. Not a huge rally in stocks but all the major indexes in green. We have the s p, also up one third. The nasdaq gaining just over 0. 5 . The joy from the u. S. Not being spread to new zealand as they have been training for a couple hours. The kiwi dollar, little change against the greenback. We are up a couple points at the moment but it is hard to get the idea so early because we have the staggered open in australia with stocks trading in alphabetical order. The aussie dollar unchanging. It did take a bit of a pounding this week with weaker than expected gdp and trade data. If we take a look at japanese futures, trades are out of chicago very slightly higher. Nikkei futures also looking a little bit healthier. The japanese yen strengthening against the dollar. Lets get the first word news. Thank you paul. Erupted across palestinian territory in