Speaker paul ryan had to quell a revolt. From bloombergs global headquarters, miami new york. Cannot in the new york we are just past 6 00 p. M. Not a huge rally in stocks but all the major indexes in green. We have the s p, also up one third. The nasdaq gaining just over 0. 5 . The joy from the u. S. Not being spread to new zealand as they have been training for a couple hours. The kiwi dollar, little change against the greenback. We are up a couple points at the moment but it is hard to get the idea so early because we have the staggered open in australia with stocks trading in alphabetical order. The aussie dollar unchanging. It did take a bit of a pounding this week with weaker than expected gdp and trade data. If we take a look at japanese futures, trades are out of chicago very slightly higher. Nikkei futures also looking a little bit healthier. The japanese yen strengthening against the dollar. Lets get the first word news. Thank you paul. Erupted across palestinian territory in
Made on thursday. Welcome to daybreak asia. Im paul allen. Im betty liu in new york. Story in thejor markets. In the very early morning, leading up to the meeting and digesting everything janet yellen was saying. He bump up in growth. This forecast and Economic Growth here. The job market is still continuing to kind of slug along percenting that three forecast for 2018. A lot of scratching the heads as well. We have strong broad jobs growth. And theres Janet Yellens legacy to think about as well. I have a wonderful piece of trivia for you here. Finalll have the lowest Unemployment Rate of any fed chair since William Martin of 1970. We can have a newfound knowledge of said history. Fed history. I found that out from someone else, by the way. Weve been trading for a couple hours now. Slightly weaker, up. 2 , the kiwi dollar breaking above . 70. Trading in australia just getting underway. It is difficult to get a gauge on how the asx is performing because we have the staggered open here.
Welcome to daybreak asia, im haidi lun. Kathleen im Kathleen Hays at bloombergs Global Headquarters in new york. We are on the verge of Bitcoin Futures starting to trade. The cme group in chicago, a much bigger stage then the cboe, were trading started one week ago where trading started one week ago. Its a next big step for this bitcoin market, the bitcoin world. Haidi derivative contracts that started trading last week seen a opposed, this is certainly massive milestone in terms of the volumes we are expected to see. Volume, ag 55 times bigger stage for Bitcoin Trading in terms of mainstream and institutional investors. Optimism over the tax fall bill, can we get this time tax hall bill President Trump has been wanting. It is driving sentiment in asia ahead of the opens. Take a look at how trading in new zealand is faring. We are seeing downside when it x50. To that and we are at a session low, down about 2 10 of 1 . A monumental week last week, trading at 6997, one jump over 2 in abo
And amazon tops 1000. Stocks up 50 and on course for a 1 trillion sale tag. 1 trillion in sales. Yvonne a trillion dollar company, yvonne. Speaking of trillions, we saw on interesting reaction in the bond markets. Again, another day where yields the house and Senate Finally passed a tax reform package. Theaps all of this by on rumor in salem the news is affecting not only equities, but also the bond markets as well. Yvonne yes. Callsall of the extreme for yield curves to flatten, it seems like we are pushing back on that now. We are seeing a steepening here as we close 2017, betty. Reaction in the equity markets. Kind of a collective shrug. S p trading flat, and closing unchanged. Same with the nasdaq. The dow down about 30 points. Not setting up for a really recession. Of course we are waiting for the boj. Yvonne we saw a bit of a rally that petered out on wall street. Here is how we are. So on to new asia, zealand. A gross load in the third but a healthier picture than what economist
Rishaad going to bring you up some history. Another record for the s p 500 recordht good 2017s year does not necessarily mean that 2018 is going to be a bad one. Lets bring up for two to three. Ityou have a great year, means quite often that you will get not a good year the following. Thats the synopsis we have going back to 1938 todays game, not tomorrow spain. The s p 500 on track for a 20 increase last year. It was matched 20 times in the last 80 years. Higherck market was three quarters of the time averaging 89 return here in averaging a 9 return. Haidi what is incredible is that we are not seeing a rotation. Were seeing a continuation of the tremendous tech rally. Here in asia, we are picking up on that positive energy. Not just for the s p, but also records for the nasdaq. Depressing 7000 points. Tokyo still off until thursday. Asia markets feeling this positive start to the year. Japanese investors can enjoy their holiday a little bit longer. We do have docs continuing to gain a