Equity markets are higher and higher. The fed and the boj coming through. How do we phrase this . Where we go from here . Dust of the few minutes ago we were talking about how the boe and the bank of canada raising rates in the fourth quarter. Requiring it to throw the conversation for next year. Have a look at this chart, the question really is how much can the likes of the boe and the bank of canada, given how strong their currencies have become, continue to follow the fed on its current rate policy . At what point does a policy notngthen, and become inflationary . Charts, whatat the it shows you is financial conditions in the United States in the bottom part. They are still fairly loose, and what that means is that despite the fact that you have a weak u. S. Dollar and currencies like the pound trading at fairly strong levels, it is not yet creating conditions where you would actually see disinflation coming through. In other words, there is scope for a lot of these big Central Bank
We had these purchasing managers indices out of china. Gauge, fiveyear highs the unofficial passion days,n manufacture slipping to 51. 6. The prithe deficit that has from the official one. We have some of these large firms distorting things. Large firms are feeling bullish. So. L firms less tailored toa move shore up the economy. Pboc announcing it will reduce the amount of cash the banks must hold in reserve. The economy where it has been scarce. Its not the only pmis we have had. The few places in asisa, asia, the markets are trading. Most closed for a public holiday. Pmi in japan. Haidi we had the pmi data from the nikkei business morning. We had japanese stocks building on gains. Boding well for corporate warnings in Japan Corporate earnings in japan. We we ending higher and sellingng for seleign for chinese stock g for ringgit stocks down. Is sliding except for the hong kong dollar. They could be under pressure given the retreat we are seeing in oil. Falling after setting the two
Rishaad indeed we should get some feelings on what is going on with the chinese economy, factory gate prices, cpi as well. Lets look at this breakdown. Negativears of industrial gate numbers, exemplified by this yellow line, then suddenly september last year, we went positive. Expecting 6. 4 . ,hat has been lifting inflation something seen as inflation to come in the pipeline for the cpi, the turquoise line. All against the backdrop of some dictating inflation or core prices in china, that is food inflation. It has gone into deflationary territory. That was september. The is all to be digested, and all of that ahead of the 19th Party Congress taking place in beijing. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia have come online. Lets have a look at what has happened so far. Another good day for the nikkei. Sophie gaining. 9 percent, rising for a 10th straight session, building on 1996 highs in a key election week in japan on sunday. The stock rally in asia continues, higher for a seventh session. S
Investors are looking to an end of five years of declining revenue. Yousef also, Blackstone Group and cbc Capital Partners among the likely bidders for staying the emirates. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Manus i am shery ahn in hong kong. Let us take you to the markets right now because they are mostly in the red. We had japan closed on holiday but they are turning slightly more positive. Shery Industrial Metals just losing ground. In theighed on australia aussie dollar and australian stocks. Aussie dollar right now unchanged, but it was one of the worst g10 performers. Of course, just hit by that route in metals. Iron ore falling the most in three months in china. Yieldthrough the 10 year is losing ground. We have hsbc as well with firstquarter earnings out. Atre adjusted protect profit 5. 94 billion. That would be a beat of estimates because adjusted pretax profit was expected to we are hearing they came in at 5. 94 billion. Now, their Dividend Per Share is also at . 10, and
Next up is nato, an organization he attacked during the campaign. We have world coverage here on daybreak asia, we keep an eye on vienna. Betty opec is meeting there. Continuing fallout from the Trump Administration budget and what the cbo calculated on a health care bill. This is daybreak asia, live from our new york and asia headquarters. I am new york i am in new york, it is just after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne i am yvonne man. It threw us off guard. Everyone raising rates. Perhaps that means a june. By another word, prudent. Caution from the fed about when we could come out of this. Betty you have to look at the data and not blame the fed for giving mixed signals. Data itself is showing mixed signals in a consumer confidence, consumer spending, diverging. You have a job market so hot in the u. S. , but then inflation is so not hot. What is going on . You cannot blame the fed for putting their feet in both areas right now. In any case, Market Investors really parse those minutes. The focus