Lose social distancing measures in indonesia, perhaps having a slower recovery. Were still seeing gains. The sti also snapping out of a whole week of losses we saw yesterday, where every day last week was in the red. But we do see singapore the most affected nation in the nation region in the nation. The nikkei 225, watching the boj, a lot of focus on bond buying. Will they scrapped that ¥80 trillion target and launch that unlimited qe . The yen has been satellite steady ahead of the policy decision. Were watching wan related assets given the speculation of kim jonguns health. We still see strength to the korean won. The berlin be indeed were maybe were at 64 u. S. Cents right now. Ceo market calls with the of dalton in about 10 minutes. Lets get first word news now with Corinna Mitchell in new york. Corinna confirmed coronavirus cases around the world is approaching 3 million, according to bloomberg and john hopkins university. More than 2000 people have died so far, the u. S. Talkin
Halston, 12. 5 . San miguel withdrew its tender officer for the company as the timeline ran out. Ayala down. 31 . The overall composite half a percent higher. Lets move things along and get to new york and look at some of the first word news. Global Coronavirus Infections continue to rise and now top 4 million with jess at about 280,000. The u. S. Has by far the most cases and fatalities with 1. 3 Million People infected and almost 79,000 having died. The virus was first reported in china and beijing has confirmed about 83,000 cases with just over 4600 fatalities. Saudi arabia says it is planning to cut spending and triple vat to 15 as it looks to offset the impact of the virus. The finance minister says the pandemic combined with Falling Oil Prices has cut revenue input and president and pressure on the public purse. The kingdom reported its biggest surge of new cases sunday, rising to almost 39,000 confirmed infections. To apply more powerful stimulus. The pboc were released a quarte
15,000. Take a look at the kospi. We are focused on samsung earnings. Samsung warning of a profit slide as this virus squeezes the tech industry. Samsung shares largely after the results came out unchanged. We are watching out for the singapore jobless numbers coming out this hour. 2. 6 , an 11 year high. We see this recovery momentum coming back in offshore chinese stocks. The moving average yesterday when things close, and we are higher here today. Bank of china among them. Dollaryen, a little strength. And some strength for the korean won. Oil remains the story, but take a look at volatility. When it comes to oil contracts, we are leapfrogging of june to july and seeing wild gyrations. We have bounced back after wti auched 10, but we lost quarter of the value when it comes to crude. It looks like volatility will continue. Into julywill roll with the spread of the june and july contracts especially for wti getting rocked by volatility. Tom we will get more on that story in a few minu
With a economist. This economyf this contracted for the First Time Since at least 1990 two. A big contraction, more than was anticipated. What is your instant reaction . Robin let me be clear. The First Quarter contraction is not a surprise considering the lockdown in late january and february. Outputch industrial dimension and trade data suggested the supply side in the chinese economy has been on a recovery path. Are first in, first out amid this covid19 recession. We have seen the worst First Quarter followed by a shallow recovery from the Second Quarter onward. The ip data is better than retail sales or domestic data, means the supply side has been largely mobilized with now 90 of factories in china, 40 are operational. Many are back online. That is why we see activity and improving activity improving on the supply front. Bolstering recovery in the next stage has shifted as lockdown in china has been replaced by softer social distancing measures which means people return to work, b
Delivery of 7 . Look how we are in terms of the major indexes. Asian markets, most in losses tracking to 3 drop on wall street overnight. Opened slightly earlier love earlier. Slightly lower earlier. We are watching petrochina down at this point in time. The hang seng, down about 1 . Kong announced an expansion of its restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of covid19. That would weigh on the economy even more. The sti, down more than 3 . This is a market that returned to bull territory recently and citi said investors are pricing in post recovery. Singapore reports higher cases, more than 1000 for the second day running. I want to dial back to the oil story because we see oil moving to the upside after two days of unprecedented action and a spectacular selloff. Opecplus ministers holding an unscheduled conference to discuss what has been going on. The closing statement signals there are no new measures planned at the moment. Lets bring in mliv asia editor. Oil is on the up. We had tw