Unchanged policy. Coming back from the typhoon slower by 116 points. We are talking about hsbc, one of the laggards here, missing out. The largecaps under pressure, 4819 right now. We are looking. When it comes to dollar dynamics, we did see a stronger dollar, which led to a hit. 379 right. 7 now. The china 10 year yield, we just got the pricing on the dollar bonds. Gold taking a retreat. Brent crude Holding Around 42. Tom lets bring you back to the top story in this region. Xi jinping will bring a major policy address later, in the next 20 to 30 minutes or so. Across the border in shenzhen, to talk about an integrated tech corridor to rival silicon valley. Stephen engle is following the story and joins us from hong kong. Steve, what are you looking for in this speech . Stephen i am looking for a better tagline. They are calling this a chinese socialist pilot zone with chinese characteristics. I think the greater bay is the grander scheme. And xily china wants to jinping with a trip so
Here as well. Looking at continental europe, spain and france are two countries the hardest hit by the coronavirus along with italy. They are set to ease lockdowns. We have Pedro Sanchez expecting to announce the loosening of measures after the weekly Cabinet Meeting which takes place later today. Later today also, france will be presenting the governments blueprint to the National Assembly on tuesday afternoon, and that should outline how they plan to ease peoples confinement as well. Is the original epicenter of the outbreak on the continent that will soon allow people to leave their homes for the first time in weeks, and that should mean they will be joining other countries including the likes of germany and austria in relaxing of shops to array open up including tattoo studios. In the u. K. , Boris Johnson saying the British Public should keep on obeying lockdown rules to avoid a disasters second wave of this outbreak here as well, coming as the number of recorded deaths from coron
Today. We are seeing crude fall 13 when it comes to w. T. E and the phillipines, that is one of the weaker side. But when it comes to the june ontracts, down 4 to 19 bucks. Look at what it comes to w. G. E . We are hovering around the 11 mark when it comes to new york crude, down 13. 6 . We mentioned about the United States oil fund, the largest oil fund in the world selling off e and ingsings in w. G. Unexpected move. Lets get more analysis with jp morgan asia yeah strategist. Is this starting to hurt the equity market . I think the moves that we are seeing in the oil complex is very, very specific. And looking across massive impacts doesnt i think the easiest thing to see the forward looking long data futures on Oil Prices Remains rather stable and it is not assuring. And the weakness we are seeing the new york futures is specific to the supply and storage they are seeing. I wouldnt put too much into that will market at this point. Interesting you say that, there is a divergence and
Exception of the new zealand dollar. We see the japanese yen weakening a bit and the renminbi was in focus. To 1714. Nching closer 711 93 for your onshore. Bonds are mixed across the board. Australian 10 we are watching it was the rba announced not a smaller amount than expected. Seeing a little bit of a selloff when it comes to your aussie bones. Up eight basis points. Areomes to brent, we getting a little bit of a breather. Higher. A half percent we are hovering around 21 for wti. There is optimism President Trump is going to be meeting. Ith oil execs that is leading to some of the oil bulls to come back out again. Lets get the first word news. U. S. Intelligence is accusing china of concealing the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak. Underreporting total cases and deaths. We are told the public statements about the infection have been intentionally incomplete and the numbers are fake. Beijing has changed its reporting of people and added hundred 30 extra cases in the first day.
The left column, a lot of those names in the green. Banking names as well. The rest of the region still seeing a lot of pressure. The split is tilted towards more downside. In terms of the sector groups as well, the similar to what we have seen. Youre getting a lot of upside in names like resources, banks, financials are seeing pressure overall. Down for a sixth straight session. 25 from the peak a couple of eci weeks ago. Yvonne back from the slopes. And back in hong kong. Steve, we have been talking about that pivot from President Trump. Painting a dire outlook on this outbreak in the u. S. Why . Wasell, i hope that he looking at the data and also seeing what other, even local news abilities are doing in the United States, cites and states aswell cities and well those in europe and they are taking this very seriously. And donald trump says it is bad. He repeated that. Its bad, its bad. He said this could last until august or even later. Hes calling it an invisible lining. Yo enemy. Y