Fed president Robert Kaplan this hour. President trump orders chinese to shutdeo app tiktok down in the u. S. Next month unless there is a deal with microsoft or another leading american company. Breaking news out of south korea. The cpi numbers for the month of july year on year, a growth of 0. 3 . This is of course after inflation remains flat for the previous month year on year. We have seen somewhat muted demand. Perhaps weighing on the month on month numbers. We are seeing inflation at zero growth. This really missing expectations that prices would rise 0. 1 if also inflation is decelerating from the previous month of june. Core cpi take out oil prices, and you get a rise of 0. 7 , in line with estimates, and slight acceleration from the previous month. We have seen brent crude prices recover somewhat from aprils slump but still down 38 year on year also. The are also expecting tokyo Inflation Numbers within the hour so take a look at what japanese futures are doing at the moment.
Infection rates low in tokyo but hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Jack ma looks to make more headlines. He is aiming for a 200 billion valuation with between listings in hong kong and shanghai. Look at how take a we are setting up when it comes to the asian open. We have a lot of positivity carrying on from that session. Investors are backing that buy the dip trend. The nasdaq hitting the alltime high. The s p hitting positive for the year. S p active futures contracts a little bit lower at the moment but it seems like the positive. Evelopment on vaccines trading sideways if you will. The dollar was broadly weaker in g10 except for the yen. We had Dollar Strength and yen weakness overnight. That is the handle we are looking at ahead of Inflation Numbers out of japan and getting machine tool numbers as well as some Retail Sentiment numbers by way of Department Store sales. Crude and gold were both a little bit lower in the asian start to the session. Some positive de
That is a quarter of global infections with california seeing its biggest daily jump yet. When we look at chinas new security law for hong kong and protesters are already changing strategies to steer clear of arrest. First, lets get you a quick check up on how markets are starting this morning. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie asian stocks are gearing up for modest gains. We are seeing s p eminis moving slightly higher this morning and kiwi stocks are heading for a second day of losses when meridian and another Energy Company leading the climbs on rio tinto deciding to Halt Operations in new zealand. The hong kong dollar staying resilient within one standard deviation as they continue to defend the currency and markets shrug off a threat to the peg. Switching off the board to the terminal chart. We are watching to see if the the best sinceng september 2019. We are keeping an eye to see of chinas market value can top 10 million after pushing beyond nine for the First Time
Los angeles is closed. The employees have just said no. And the Magic Kingdom in disney world, they are attempting to open it, even with the virus in florida. When i am looking at the markets, without question, is the derisking going on . The u. S. Yields have really come in in the last 48 hours. Francine you reminded me in the last hour, there was a big move on u. K. Guild. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning the coronavirus milestone keep piling up in the u. S. The number of new cases has climbed over 60,000 in one day for the first time, and texas, california, and florida, all with a Record Number of deaths. In new york city, large events that require permits like street fairs have been canceled through the end of september. The u. S. Is set to take the next step in a response over taxes on technology giants. Bloomberg learned the u. S. Will impose tariffs on up to 700 million in french goods including wine, cheese, and handbags. The duties would be de
From john hopkins showed the crown a virus or past half a 1000000 deaths over the weekend with more than 10100000 and factions worldwide while the overall death rate has flattened in recent weeks Health Experts are concerned of a possible resurgence as new cases are indeed spiking australia recorded its largest daily outbreaks in april 11th with 85 new Coronavirus Infections in 24 hours now the country is looking to place more restrictions including social distancing guidelines and as the European Union opens its borders the European Commission declined to comment on the list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter the e. U. In the coming days. Were not going to speculate on what is going to be the final decision by the council we of course understand the huge interest that this issue raises. But for the moment do is a process of Decision Making process in the council. And we do not want to speculate on what the final result will be and amid a spike in coven 1000. 00 cases