Across the americas. The spread is unacceptable. South korea braces for a second wave. Lenders are backing away. Bank of considering cutting a credit line, writing off its and calling it quits. We are just getting some indications, early indications of the economic rebound in australia. The cva australia pmi manufacturing preliminary number for june bouncing back. Just in contractionary territory but certainly much better than the 44 from the previous reading. The Services Number also much better i we get parts of the Services Economy reopening after the restrictions coming in at 53. 2. The previous reading was 26. 9. That composite number for june, 52 point six. 28. 1 and out of contractionary territory. That is a preliminary reading but things looking a bit more positive. Also looking positive for asian markets, lets get over to Sophie Kamaruddin for a look. Futures are in the green with s p eminis and he restocks resuming gains while the aussie dollar remaining on the on foot at the
He wants facebook and google to peak when lawyer s it comes to tracking user data. And later, bill gates on how being seriously hampered by u. S. China trade tensions. His comments from the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. But we begin this hour with apple. The company made news on two fronts this week. The first president trumps visit wednesday to apples austin, texas factory. Cook at the president to discuss keeping macs and iphones free from tariffs. The other news involved the way apple tests software. It is changing after a series of bugs marred the latest iphone and ipad operating system. Mark gurman and tom forte kicked off the conversation thursday. So, basically apples ios , software has been bugging the past few years. This particular release cycle, catalina, it mac os has been especially buggy. What apple is doing is going to make it so that engineers, earlier in the process, can determine what is working in order to hopefully come up with a much more stable operating system whe
Everyone. Good afternoon if you are watching from asia. This is bloomberg surveillance. These are your markets. We need to watch out for the u. S. 10 year yield and eurodollar. Augustgetting some services pmi rising to 53. 4, little better than expected. ,ut if you have a breakdown also manufacturing is better than expected, but what you need to are member is germany is not doing so great. France is a little bit better remember is germany is not doing so great about frances olympic better. Great, france is doing a little bit better. You can see our interview with Esther George 12 30 london time. Tomorrow, a stellar lineup. We speak to James Bullard all here on bloomberg tv. That may move the markets overall, but now, lets get straight first word news in new york city. The chosen one. That is how President Donald Trump described himself to reporters. He said it is his job to wage a trade war with beijing. Somebody had to do it. I am taking on china. I am taking on china on trade and we
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What does that mean . Hello and welcome to bloomberg daybreak asia. Im haidi lun. Betty i am betty liu at the mobile headquarters in new york. Weve got one i clearly watching what is happening in the korean peninsula. In the meantime, we are watching what is happening here in tax reform and u. S. Markets. It looks like tax or formal possibly passed by the end of the year and markets will move higher,. I want to pull up a chart that shows perhaps a little bit of a warning sign. It just shows you the valuation of snp stock versus the euro stoxx 600uro companies. You can see how the valuation so muchinues to widen, so that it has some investors saying even if stocks rally, maybe there is better value in other parts of the world, particularly europe. Maybe it is europes time to shine next year. Haidi absolutely. It is interesting, this idea of momentum and sentiment driven rally we have seen. Haveore record highs we seen overnight as we get closer to closing out the year. Usuallyet period