Record high in history. The dow, nasdaq and s p having worst week since october of 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. Checking on Global Market action, pmi out earlier, below 50, but that was up from 47. 9 in last month and we have losses across the board. The biggest loser there is the ftse 100 in england, down 2. 6 . Checking asian markets overnight, chinas manufacturing getting slammed by the coronavirus. Private measuring of Manufacturing Activity released monday record low for february. 40. 3 reading in february. The lowers since the survey started in april 2004. Nevertheless asian markets are close but agreeing across the board. Hong kong retail sales fell 21. 4 year over year, 12month of declines. Could led to worse number for february. Market rebound in asia. All eyes on the coronavirus. Two deaths now reported in the United States due to that virus. Cheryl casone has the details, cheryl. Cheryl thats right, dagen, Washington State has confirmed the second coronavirus
South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei
Right . When you talked about the japanese markets, we see the japanese yen gaining ground after it gained, was almost at the highest level in five months against the u. S. Dollar. Perhaps taking a little bit from the equity markets there. As you mention, this following the boj coming through with a 500 billion yen to provide stability to financial markets. Lets get a deeper look at the markets with sarah. Today, ther on Conference Call with the g7 finance ministers. We have seen a Global Relief rally while still intact, starting to fade. Japanese equities, the nikkei two to five, has given up almost all of its gains, now trading flat on the day. It was the boj statement yesterday that really got the relief rally rolling. Now we see japan leading the way down. Meanwhile, asx 200, australian stocks still trading very aalthy, the best day in over year, head of the rba decision in which traders are expecting a cut. The cost be kospi doing well. Pointing out,were the japanese yen, we very
But the e. U. May challenges deal with china. Up ad Morgan Stanley wraps big earnings week for u. S. Banks , with a beat. We are live from the Morgan Stanley global Alpha Investment conference in hong kong. Us trillion markets just open for trade. Sophie. Sophie asx us trillion marketst open for 600 the top smock the top stock market so far this year. Broadly speaking, asian futures are pointing higher and regional stocks are headed to a seventh weekly gain. We will see if the u. S. Tech rally feeds into asia, given bullish guidance. We did have alphabet joining the 1 trillion market cap club. Fed expected to stand pat on rates. Looking ahead to the chinese gdp report, futures in singapore closing higher after a three day drop was posted and the offshore yuan is headed for an eighth weekly rise. Thea top forecaster says yuan will in the year is one of asias worstperforming currencies. Shery lets go to first word news with jessica summers. Jessica the Senate Begins the formal impeachmen
Japanese yen is a safe haven. I must say actually, the japanese yen is up than u. S. Dollar and is holding up. Oil is definitely on a buy. Wti, to give us a sense of the volume. Brent crude is saving four times its volume and w. T. I. Is trading six or seven times. The markets are definitely moving with this geopolitical news overnight. Its time for the Global Exchange from around the world. From london to istanbul to prints on, new jersey and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with tensions in the iddle east where one of irans most powerful general killed. The u. S. Active International Terrorism targeting and assassinating is extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation. The u. S. Bears responsibility for all consequences of its ogue ven chur churism. Mark, what is the reaction . Ive seen some demonstrations already in iran. Yes. There have been protests in iran which is the city where he was born. The key thing to remember abo