The top of joe bidens agenda. His relations with beijing may differ in tone from the president but perhaps not in substance. The best the dollar extends its decline. Over the future of the u. S. Administration. Rise inie and the kiwi early asia trading. We are seeing those commodities and currencies benefit. Asia is waking up and getting the for the first reaction to president elect joe biden. The nikkei 225 to the upside by 0. 3 . These watching some of clean energy as well as infrastructure related stocks here in australia and new zealand. Joe biden preparing to take office as the 46 president of the United States. He is moving forward as president elect launching his transition ever and preparing a plan to tackle the coronavirus however, President Trump still refusing to concede while weighing more legal challenges. Mr. Biden the people of this nation have spoken. They are delivered as a clear and convincing victory. We the people. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide
Bidens agenda. He may have a different tone toward china but there may not be substance. Kiwi rise ind the early asia trading. At some ofke a look these early market reactions. Sophie kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie we are seeing some risk on tone in australia. The aussie is extending last weeks gain as the greenback has stayed structurally quicker. Weaker. They could test that 650 level this week. The yen, the best week for the currency since midseptember. Softbank results are due this monday. We have nikkei futures in chicago moving to the upside. This after the benchmark rose to a november 1991 hi on friday. That was 37 off the alltime high that was back in 1989. New york crude is gaining ground but still staying under 38 per barrel there. Some pressure may come through in the oil. Is very much in focus after the chaotic week we saw in turkey. That is the Central Bank Governor fired there. Racing for more voluntary they are embracing more volatility there. Joe biden is projected to
Thought to be controlled by the Peoples Liberation army. And policymakers seem less likely to go down that route decide besides providing support for a long time. Shery lets take a look at how we are setting up an asian markets. Looks like trending a bit lower in sydney. U. S. Stocks really doing pretty taking overrallies adding to concerns about tougher lockdown measures with the existence of an effective vaccine. Downside about a quarter of 1 and that market along with new zealand looking pretty overheated after the recent run of gains. Continuing to push back expectations for negative rates. Chicago futures moderately positive at the moment. The yen seeing a little bit of a gain but we have seen a new daily record for Coronavirus Infections in japan this week. Authorities hinting they could need to take stronger measures to halt the increase in the spread. S p acted futures up by. 2 sessione active cash sank as much as 1. 5 overnight. Shery lets turn to our top story President Trump
To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
Is the first air travel bubble of its kind. There we go. We should be watching airline stuff as well but a lot of that thisready priced in after bubble was announced a few weeks ago. A have a look at the tech index here. Alibaba and tencent on the market at the moment. They are taking 179 points off the hang seng index itself. That is as we are seeing this rotation out of tech stocks, a global phenomenon at the moment. This will be because of the regulatory challenges we will be facing through some of these online retailers. Juliet . Juliet lets get Market Analysis with patrick, the global asset strategist. Patrick, we are finally getting this news of this travel bubble between singapore and hong kong. This is one thing that investors have been looking for when we start to see Global Travel open up and how that will feed into the energy markets. Lets get to our question of the day. That is when will crude back to these march highs . What is your view . Patrick morning. We are not speci