Gdp readings are expected to show an 18 rebound from the covid19 fallout. 15 asiapacific nations formally launched the biggest freetrade deal. The accord covers 2 billion people and is a decade in the making. Howi lets take a look at it is feeding through. Havent seen much of a reaction when it comes to the kiwi aussie dollar. We are seeing bond markets the little bit cautious. We are seeing 3 10 of 1 when it comes to trading in sydney. Thirdquarter gdp numbers showing a sharp rebound in japan. We are seeing nikkei futures trading mildly optimistically. That is the picture when it comes to u. S. Futures. Back to thiss get incredible trade deal. After eight years of difficult negotiations, the largest ever freetrade deal has finally been signed. The regional, comprehensive, Economic Partnership includes 15 countries with china, japan, on. Ralia and all of aussie how important is the timing of this considering the damage caused by covid19 . This will be, as trade ministers will say, a bi
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
And the markets say by gold. Global google searches for the phrase hit levels not seen in nine years as the yellow metal barrels passed 2000 an ounce. The cash trade is less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. The white house and democrats aim for a virus relief deal by the end of the week and bill gates tells bloomberg exclusively the u. S. Should help poorer nations get vaccines. Rocked by a massive explosion at its main port, killing dozens and injuring thousands. Authorities are yet to confirm what caused the blast. In fromcontinue to roll europes largest countries. Commerzbank anticipates a loss for the year. We will speak with a host of top executives in the coming hours, including from the frankfurtbased bank. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe and out in the u. K. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating. Green arrows across the board. For ures up the most, 0. 4 . We get a slew of earnings out of German Companies this m
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back
South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei