Thanks to the demand for the galaxy smartphone. Position foring ipos and southeast asia, raising more than 1 billion in the first half. Thailand was the third. You can let us know what you think by following me on twitter. Dont forget to include the trendingbusiness. Singapore and taiwan have just come online. David malaysia is closed today. Singapore opening to a mixed basket. We are up a fifth of 1 . Still weighed down by valoryen. I think that is the story. We have been moving sideways since brexit. Dollaryen is the most important to keep in mind. We went about that ever so slightly. The dollar is weak or by a third of 1 . Modest. Keeping gains look at that. A few minutes before we get that fixing. I wonder what w they know that we dont. ,ave a look at 10 year yields the opposite of what we saw this week, yields coming back a little bit. Still alltime lows here. We had the minutes from the fed meeting overnight, showing are looking at two factors, the may jobs data and brexit. This
The role it has played in the death of a student. The company is saying a healthy internet is the responsibility for all. Follow me on twitter for all of the top stories. Kong markets getting underway. Singapore and malaysia getting online. Let us get the pulse of the market. Mind it isa, keep in getting the first jab at pmi. You have a bunch of earnings, china construction bank, securities. I will get more for you on that. In the meantime, have a look at dollaryen. Equities are on their way up. Oil is seeing pressure despite dollar weakness. Have a look at this. Dollaryen closing in on 106. 02 that was the low so far. Goldman sachs putting out a note for their clients. The gist of it is dollaryen, nearterm will continue to fall come the boj is forced to in and come in strong meaning more stimulus, not intervention. That is on the finance ministry. Level right now. A lot of money is going into the japanese currency. We are looking at index futures. Down 150 points. Weakness isollar the
Become the first civilian ruler in two decades. Democrat Hillary Clinton looks to consolidate her lead in the race for the white house. Also coming up this hour in our business update, we will tell you about the bookstore in paris that started a new chapter by renting books on demand. That will be with Stephen Carroll. We would bring you the latest discovery. Haverchers say they discovered the longlost ancestor of the tehran a saurus rex. Rex. The tyrannosaurus first, russia has begun to withdraw military equipment from syria. President Vladimir Putin made the surprise announcement yesterday, saying moscow will pull most of its forces from the country. Five months of air support have helped the syrian army regroup and go on the offensive, but that this stage but at this stage it remains unclear what the kremlins plan involves. Claire williams reports. Claire our task has largely in a koppers, the words of Vladimir Putin as he announced most Russian Troops would be withdrawn from syria.
When we are asked to fight with two arms tied behind your back, its not fair. Yvonne we are all over the global conference with expert insights on the state of investment. Companies are not avoiding paying u. S. Taxes at all. For large investors, it is off the table. Yvonne its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Yvonne welcome. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of Business News, analysis, from Bloomberg Television around the world. Lets start with the daytoday look at the top headlines. The week began with a bang as a huge merger imploded. Halliburton will have to pay 3. 5 billion after they call called off their proposed merger. Take aim in the face of fierce resistance of u. S. Regulators and the justice department. For baker hughes they are going back to the drawing board and thinking how they are going to go ahead. They are doing a 1. 5 billion stock buyback. They will buy back a billion dollars worth of debt and i think the question now about them cutting costs, they s
Sydney, i believe, the first to in and the consensus price target out there about 18. Celebrate the new year. Higher by nearly 30 . We will be doing that in a betty thank you. Little bit. Well get our time. About a half hour into the trading session. China, the u. S. Or emerging i want to head to the markets markets, what region will see desk were julie hyman is the best returns and biggest standing by. Julie im happy to start risk in the coming year . Celebrating right now. We take you around the world to betty break out the champagne. Julie Market Participants are get the outlook from the worlds top banking chiefs. Not celebrating. Selling onng some the Monetary Union is very difficult. The last day of the year. Agree withtions to all major averages are down by a half of percent this year. One half of a percent. Something. They will have to muddle through. I think because of the willexity of that, they right now it is looking like a loss on the year. The yeartodate performance of hav