Did quite well. About weve been talking the investors worrying the last few days with yields continuing to march higher in anticipation of higher interest rates, itever the month of january, looked like a pretty good month for the bulls. I want to bring in this chart, as we round out the month. You can see s p stocks the best performance since march of 2016. President trump will take a look at take credit for this. The market is still doing well. If you look at that chart, investors are optimistic about prospects and we might be hitting an inflection point. Markets are rebalancing as well, and what we saw with the bond market overnight was significant of 10 year treasury yield spiking to 2. 97 . That is the line in the sand and it is a worry for many equity bulls out there. Mentioned,vonne just the 30 year yield breaking through a significant level, that 3 yield. And it seemsh us, like Equity Investors are paying attention to the bond market. That level reached and getting to that site
In an historic ruling, Kenyas Supreme Court has overturned the result of last months election, and ordered a re run. President Uhuru Kenyatta says the decision is political, but he will accept the judgement. Its the first time a legal challenge to a president ial vote has been successful anywhere in africa. Anne soy reports from nairobi. Celebrating a new lease of life. Veteran politician raila odinga gets one more chance to run for president. A last minute decision to challenge the result of the president ial election paid off. The president ial election held on 8 august 2017 was not conducted in accordance with the constitution under the applicable law, rendering the declared result invalid, null and void. A shocking and rare judgment. The judges did not limit themselves to what happened on election day until the results were announced. Rather they looked at the electoral process in its totality from Voter Registration to Civic Education as well as the campaigning and procurement of
Revealing more about the 10th anniversary iphone, apples most important new product in years. Welcome to daybreak asia. You, thewere showing devastation by Hurricane Irma as it made landfall today in florida. Bring up those pictures again of what it looked like an ft. Myers. Certainly very scary as the storm moves westward. We are tracking the path on our bloomberg here. Hurr , irma taking a different direction, more westward. The severity of the storm is continuing to decline. By monday at 2 00 a. M. , a category one storm. That may be why we have seen various estimates, including one reducing estimates of damages from 200 billion to 48 billions 48 billion. It is a movable feast, isnt it, as we assess that different kinds of damage to property. There are households without power and some may go without power for weeks to come. Some of this infrastructure damage will need to be built from the ground up. We will be talking to a Real Estate Developer with property in miami and get his ta
Rishaad asia stocks under pressure, but Global Equities are at record highs. Lets bring up chart 5892. Ly is all amid this extreme low volatility. It is the worlds best regional rally in turquoise. The 60 day volatility in the white line has dropped 5. 9 to the lowest since 1988. In line with u. S. And europe, and the vix markets hitting new lows. The calm, but no storm, at least for the time being. Pause. May be a muted at lofty highs when it comes to emerging markets in asia, japan in particular. I dont think you can blame investors for taking a breather. Lets get it over to sophie with 30 market reaction. Sophie we have corporate earnings perhaps giving impetus to profit taking for japanese investors given those highs. Leadingei 225 benchmarks in asia lower here it asian stocks falling for a second session. I want to highlight the currencies space. The korean won leading losses as importers why dollars. B. N. P. Paribas says it is better late than never to buy the currency as cyclic
Challenge to washington and seoul, korea. We have the world covered here on daybreak asia. We will be live in beijing for chinas plans for a new silk road. In new york, all the details of the global hack attack. He careful as you turn your computers on. Liveis daybreak asia from bloombergs u. S. And asian headquarters. It sounds really ominous. It is just after 7 00 p. M. , those is a big story hospitals and government facilities being attacked, but all eyes will be on the bill and road forum, 78 billion in Infrastructure Spending pledged at the time we are a focus on data, retail sales data out of china. When it comes to the u. S. , theng seems to move much s p 500 2400 for the past couple of weeks. China,a big project from how will the u. S. And the rest of the world react. Earthquakelayy quality . We will examine that later in the program. We seem pretty stuck here. The retail Sales Numbers on friday did not eliminate anymore on where consumers in the market are going, so we will wa