China. The administration is demanding meaningful reforms. Stockpiles continue to shrink. This could lead to rising tension in the gulf. Shery a quick check of the market close. We saw the s p 500 for the most since may. It was already a pretty fragile session for the market. Tensions. Opolitical then we heard from Jerome Powell and also the st. Louis fed president. Investors did not like what they heard. Check and communication stocks are leading the decline. We are also seeing the nasdaq down 1. 5 . U. S. Futures are not doing much. Lets see how the markets are shaping up. Sophie were looking at a tenuous beginning. These are nudging higher. The yen is looking study. Study. Eady. Steady. Goldman is seeing the silver lining, raising korea and taiwan to market rate. Australia onowered Bank Earnings risks. Stocks are nudging higher. This is head of the argan decision. We are seeing 10 year yield holding steady. The goal rally is taking a bit of a breather. Paul lets check on the first w
Last years revenue went through china. Alibaba moves a step closer to a share sale in hong kong. The impending offer could raise as much as 20 billion. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. The s p 500 finishing at the highest level in five weeks. The nasdaq, the highest level in a month. Reversingtors yesterdays office to gain ground in yesterdays session. Most were in the green. They were led higher by Energy Stocks. Take a look at wti. Wti prices gained as much as 4. 5 at one point. Apparent attacks onto tankers on two tankers building up the tension in the persian gulf and leading investors to get worried about supply around oil. And we saw now on crude, jumping 2 in the last two sessions. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged. Lets see how we are shaping up to the asian markets. Sophie this friday, were facing a mixed session with type and commodity sectors in focus. Get activity data from china later this morning. Investors will be watching to see i
Manus very warm welcome to the show, the last one of 2017. , 5095 is thebye chart we are talking about on the dollar. Record after record, they just keep bringing home. The msci a sit pacific is up 20 in 2017. It was technology that took the triumph. Tencent is at the bottom of your screen, 113 return this year. The technology really led the page. The first annual gain in eight years. This was the year in which asia outperformed the United States the most since 2003 and the most against europe since 2009. Can we write anymore about bitcoin . 995, i love volatility, but this takes it to a whole new level. 14,000. We stumped from the record high we set in september. This has been one of the most popular guesstimates on the whisper function on the bloomberg. 243 participants suggested the average forecast would be around 15,000. Only 2 of americans have dabbled in bitcoin, weve written an awful lot more about it. Oil, what does 2018 hold for oil . The rising from the phoenix for two of a
Rishaad what a rally it has been so far in january. Lets have a look at what has been going on with china. Hong kong versus shanghai. Bringing up a chart for you. Main equities may be in the shadow. The benchmark is notching up and moving, closing at its highest level since 2015. It has been a rock and roll ride. Rough 2016. A it sparked off some panic. Eight home 2017. 20 17. A call lets not forget hong kong. Its a redhot stock market. Looking at this tends to show you what happened here with the momentum building up as we head further into the year. Perhaps more games to come . That is the big question. Haidi particularly as the market looks at the rise of china. It is a global synchronized growth story. Speeding through the earnings season. That is where we all record highs. They had so much momentum coming out of the u. S. Targets. Over 18 have beat estimates. You can see that coming through. Looking at the asian session, we are preoccupied with a few things. Apple supplies. When t
They are small potatoes. Kathleen i had an interesting conversation with bill dudley and i am putting that comment of small potatoes from bill dudley seenrspective we have much worse, however, he is convinced as well that, rate hikes will continue and is interesting to me that it isnt just u. S. Fed officials but other central bankers downplay the stock market volatility. We heard it from greg spencer yesterday, and we heard it from ecb officials yesterday, saying it will not affect the policy path. Unless it gets worse and last longer. Yvonne we heard the boe chiming in and it is fueled by the selloff that we saw overnight. Interesting contest of last week, or earlier this week that the worst may be and this is a technical shakeup given the fact that most of this market with short volatility, but now that trade is that, perhaps the dust settles, we should be ok. But today was an indication that we could see more to go. Kathleen may more dust coming, we shall see. The s p dropped takes