Prompted widespread fears and borrowing has prompted collapse. Fears of and, information sought on accounts involved in the elections. We have struggled to hold onto the gains we saw earlier this morning. Today, the u. S. In the red. The only sector still up was technology, but barely. We had that rally, but tech lost ground based on some of the details on the tax reform bill. , want to pull up this chart 879. It shows you how investors have been anticipating the tax bill will be bearish for tech stocks. Shares underperforming since the end of november as more details that come out on tax reform. David it has become a real problem, especially in asia. We have been down for seven days. Four of those dames with the kleins of more than 1 . It has been a drag. Declines ofhose it more than 1 . It has been a drag. Lets look at markets in new zealand, kiwi dollar underwhelming. Gdp,straight come big day, rba Rate Decision not to do anything,. 1 . Yields lower, bonds up, aussie dollar unchange
About trading in private venues. Two figures joined the race to be deputy fed chair. We have the low down and their cvs. Betty it looks like a second month of disappointing industrial numbers from south month. Up. 2 month on expectations were for a rebound from that is small prior month in october. The expectation was again of 1. 3 . Also a decline of 1. 6 year on year, worse than the no change expected by economists. Ands. Saw huge plunge factory output distorted by the holidays in south korea. The expectation was there might be a rebound from those numbers. It looks like there was, but still not what economists had expected. We know these numbers are choppy, but the chip boom and auto exports, that has been expected to help industrial output numbers, but looks like not quite what economists had hoped for or predicted. Again, a lower than estimated numbers, up to 2 month on month. In the u. S. , we saw markets edging higher at the close. Changing nasdaq barely , the dow adding 30 poin
Im haidi lun. This is daybreak australia. We are one hour out from the open of asias major markets. It is 5 p. M. In new york. Im betty liu. It was a holiday today on wall street commemorating Martin Luther king it is 5 p. M. In new. Jr. So there were no equity bond trading at all. The dollar continues to trade in the Foreign Exchangethe dollar n the Foreign Exchange market. That is really what has dominated the trade today. We saw the dollar continue that slide coming off a five week decline. Talking to some analysts, not so much dollar weakness but it is more strength of its counterparts, right, as Central Banks are pulling back on stimulus all around the world. We are seeing a rise in many of these currencies. Haidi absolutely. Case in point, the extended gains we are seeing in the euro. As you say with the u. S. Markets closed, it was the weaker european close we saw that will lead things off in asia. Tepide seen more of a session setting up in asia. New zealand is trading underway
To tap into chinas 40 million on Offline Stores. With its new platform. Betty yvonne, no action here in the u. S. , of course because we are closed for the commemoration of Martin Luther king. Marketsties, the bond are all shot and the currency markets of course, continue to remain open. Shut for the day. It depends whether we will see a government shut down and how that will be priced into the equity markets when they open tomorrow morning. We are definitely watching commodities closely, and currencies, which continued to slide in the u. S. Dollar as well as well with five weeks of losses. Pretty remarkable, given that we are in a rate tightening timeframe here in the u. S. Area commodities, and currencies. We are watching those today. Yvonne yes, the dollar could be optimism for some of the asia traders here, but again, we are missing some fresh catalyst with the u. S. Markets closed. If we take a look at futures, it looks like we will be taking upons with the best we are looking at
The spotlight on chinese hip hop. Live from singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 5 30am in bangladesh. Many thousands of Rohingya Muslims are spending the night without food and shelter after fleeing persecution in neighbouring myanmar. The Prime Minister of bangladesh has called for myanmar to take back the estimated 400,000 refugees that have poured across the border since an upsurge in violence at the end of august. The un will hold an urgent meeting later on wednesday to discuss the crisis. Justin rowlatt reports from teknaf near the border. Roshida is nine months pregnant. She is expecting any day. But this is where shes living with 15 other family members and it is almost certainly where shell have to give birth. Translation im worried. There is no help. Nobodys getting any food. Here, there is no rice, no vegetables, nothing. Im starving. I first met her a few days back. Shed hiked for seven days th