The economy is maintaining last years momentum. Let us have a look at what is going on with regard to the moon out there. We have records for mood out there. The dows climbing. Its always we have so far for the asian equity sessions. Sessions. 225 of 0. 1 . We are showing a contraction there. That came days after the bank of korea itself raised growth forecasts looking at 2018. Overall, the dollars strength is climbing a little bit compared to its japanese counterpart. It is waiting into the unusual theic discussion, saying strong dollar is favored after endorseduchin an a weaker dollar. That prevented a fallback. Let us have a look at what this chart says. We have industrial profits coming out. The chinese economy is a tale of two sectors. The diversions between large and Small Companies is deepening. We have the pmis for the Large Companies in indigo. You can see how they have been expanding under the contraction for small ones, and that is reflected in the stock prices. Blue,e the c
Of the biggest trade disputes in history. Tech earnings avalanche with microsoft, facebook, alibaba, alphabet, and amazon reporting. It is 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates. This is Bloomberg Markets middle east. I am yousef gamal eldin in dubai. Investors are betting on an expansion in corporate earnings. Asia up 8 this year. Let me show you the broader market. Let me give you a quick tour, asian equity session higher, led by the kospi. China down 1. 2 . To theto your attention Foreign Exchange space, the yen the study after the boj clarified comments on friday. Japan still getting its head around a stronger yen. Big moves in the swiss franc sanctions are expected from the united states, and in aussie dollar retreating from iron with losses in ore. , a squeeze concern on the supply side driving price gains. And showtch the board you the Energy Trades with brent crude specifically, still the years aslose in three hedge funds increase their bullish bets to a record high. Up. 10 year, we ha
Minutes, we are joined by hsbc advisor stephen king. Francine first, chinas yuan has triggered the biggest twobase hit law since 1998, fueling concerns that market volatility will slow growth. Manus the peoples bank of china lover the reference right today, just one day after cutting it by a record 1. 9 . Lets find out how the markets are reacting. Dollaryuan. D you im going to show you the flipside today, yuandollar. Effect,u get the down which is more important. The yuan sinking for a second day. The twoday drop, 3. 61 . That is the biggest twothey drop since 1994. Ripple effects are being felt across global markets. Chinas Central Bank Says there is no economic or financial basis for the Exchange Rate to fall continuously. Ill let mr. King decide whether that is the case. A Ripple Effect is being felt in bond, commodity, and stock markets. Look at the msci emerging market index. I showed you a oneyear chart. Was ther, september 3 peak for the period. From then, through to yesterday,
To impose the reforms being demanded by germany at the moment . That 85 billion euros of bailout figures, they want to see change happening in greece. Guess wasat one of my telling me earlier. Ftse 100 opens flat. Dax flat as well. We are waiting and seeing how greece plays out. They gather to discuss the bailout. And what happens in china . Calm after the storm. For the first time, we see the reference rate in china higher. We start to see stocks, shanghai currently up 0. 3 . We see moves to start to see the market taking action, or china stepping in, saying the market will be based on methodology now. The market will help dictate the foreign currency. It will intervene to help prevent excessive swings. Have bigtly ramifications in malaysia. Malaysia has political issues of its own. We see it down from 1. 7 . This is a key country to be keeping an eye on. Then on the move in the ringgit. Lets look at the foreign currency. This is the story of the week, the renminbi losing 3 against th
The Italian Economy grew by. 2 . The estimate was. 3 . France is stagnating and germany missed. Francine has had a little bit of an impact on euro dollar. Breaking news from greece. The government there is to request a confidence vote after talks concluded with the countrys creditors. Anchor it will follow a pame. To the e. C. B. Lets get straight to mark barton at the breaking news desk. This is a series of events that we thought might happen. Who brought this confidence vote forward . Mark yes, the vote passed. A majority of more than 151. Big majority. Hence we have the confidence vote after august 20 which as we know is the day that greece owes the e. C. B. Money. It needs that money to pay the e. C. B. So were in the quite there yet. Thet is just another day on calendar on top of a lot of dates in the next few days starting with the euro area finance ministers meeting at 3 00 p. M. In brussels. Lets remind our viewers what happened. Lawmakers approving that bailout that may unlock