Is anyone actually listening in asian . In beijing . Ramy a very good morning to you. It is great to be with you on this morning in asia, sunday evening in the United States, take a look at what happened on the markets on friday. In the United States, like a roller coaster after Michael Flynn said he was going to plead guilty after lying to officials. We saw the markets up and down. Hot on the bloomberg terminal, btv 4046. The s p 500, we saw it when the news broke, that fell, but not only that, we saw the highest taxed companies in white, were rising inexorably in anticipation of the tax reform plan. Those fell, as well. David, we know what happened saturday morning here, it did we are looking, ahead to markets opening in the United States as well as where you are, to see what reaction there is. David absolutely. When you look across what is , apening over the fx markets lot of what is going to happen comes down to the dollar, when you look at the majors, decent pickup across a lot of
Probe makingrussia itself felt across the world. Have a look at gold. This is chart 6129. Fridayback into gold when the news came out that thatel flynn will testify President Donald Trump instructed him to reach out to the russians. We are under 30 minutes away from the open. Lets find out more from sophie. Could berustrating , today looking like. Afternoon,ndia this but looking at the moves in singapore, taipei, lets take a look at the open. A fairly mixed a session so far. For singapore, but some pressure for stocks. I want to show you this chart. This is one of the big moves so far this morning. Chart 6173, tax concerns outweighing the Michael Flynn drama. The 10 year treasury yield is climbing up of 2. 4 this morning. Even as the dollar is rising, we are seeing bearish dollar positions rising again despite the positive economic actual for the united states. Holding a the kospi threeday drop with the korean won under pressure. ,his is the yen is slipping 112. 78, and the aussie unde
Progressiverudeaus mission stalled in beijing, with Sticking Points on all sides. Betty david, good to be with you from hong kong there. Favor,stocks today in those that will benefit from tax reform. But dont pull out the party have yet. I want to pull out this chart, g btv 339. It is according to vanguard, the index fund company that manages almost 5 trillion has drivenot of what the markets, the low volatility, the record runs in stocks, the record stimulus, the low wages, no inflation, that is about to end in 2018. Tax reform or no tax reform. They see more volatility to come, which means they see lower returns. Do not expect of those nice, juicy returns of the last few years any longer. David absolutely. It is almost impossible to , the conducive assumptions and realities we had in 2017 continue well into 2018. It is almost like mothers womb. It is a perfect environment, but do you get it in this harsh world, it which is what 2018 seems to be like. Analogy, we have been drunk on ea
Hunt may be over as conquest says it is no longer in the running. We are on bitcoinwatch j two. Day two. This shows the volume and price action that we saw. 3818. Prices were quite volatile. Volume was highest right at the open. If in doubt as we headed toward u. S. Trading hours. That was further evidenced among bitcoin critics. Demand thate retail is fueling what we have seen. Guest, stephent roach joining us from Yale University. He is calling it a speculative bubble. It is just the first day. Things could get more normalized. Girl lets also betty lets show you the u. S. Market. Nasdaq, the dow, and the all in the green. This is a solid recovery. Investors were much more bullish on some of these sane stocks in tech shares. An unwind of this reversal that we saw a couple weeks ago. We are seeing a mixed session here so far. Were looking at new zealand and australia. The kiwi Still Holding onto solid gains. The Deputy Governor was named the next central bank chief. Seen as a less radi
Sydney. Money supplier beating expectations. The Deleveraging Campaign was expected to intensify once it got past. Take a look at this chart. Is one aspect of the problem that policymakers are facing. Chinas achilles heel. That gdp growth is being outmuscled by the pace of the debt buildup. We got that in one sense from the numbers that came out. Financing more than expected. That brought us into the money supply number increasing more than expected from that 8. 8 the previous month. Debt buildup this continuing to take place in china. We are starting minutes out from the opening of the china market. Taiwan coming online. Dave is taking a look for us. David it was a little bit surprising. We were talking about these numbers coming out. Rethinking how long these oil curbs need to be in place. Maybe they will rethink about bringing that forward. We are just getting the oil price under way. Your subtitle is right here. Essentially, there is a crack. Two weeks weeks to fix. Asiapacific, ap