Smartphone sales. Details about the beijing security law. Shery this is quite a reversal from the deficit we saw in the previous month. We had seen south koreas current account falling to deficit for the first time in about one year but the numbers have recovered and we are seeing a rebound with our current account surplus topping 2 million. When it comes to goods, the trade surplus coming in at 2. 5 billion for the month of may. This is quite a recovery given that we had really fallen to the lowest level since 2008. Good trade surplus numbers. A much better than expected number out of south korea when it comes to the current account surplus and also the goods trade surplus for the month of may. Lets see how markets are trading at the moment. We are seeing now nikkei futures unchanged. Same for u. S. Futures. This after we had stocks here in new york jumping following the holiday weekend. We had seen five sessions of gains for the u. S. Now unchanged at the moment. The japanese yen Hol
Several areas we consider planes to reopen. Optimistic. Emains treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin says he expects the session to end this year with another Stimulus Program in the pipeline. Paul we are about an hour away from the open here in australia and tokyo. Lets get a check on what we can expect for the new trading day with sophie in hong kong. Sophie asian stocks looking at a muted start this wednesday. This after we sell stock gains fade into the close. Check out what is going on with qe markets. The qe dollar is trading ahead of the rbnz decision. In the bond space, we are seeing five basis points this morning. The central bank of new zealand seen holding pat. That is one of the items on the agenda we are watching with market very much in wait and see mode. Plenty of firepower being amassed in deal space the latest news of kp are having pulled together 10 million. Lets jump into the turn will. The terminal. We could be seeing positive mental for asian stocks. As you can see on
Market. Shareholdersas top supports a bailout today as bayer agrees to a settlement to put months into related liabilities behind it. Manus it has just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In paris and berlin. It comes down to this. 2. 5 drawdownll a on the s p 500 . Is that really a readjustment . The camera has just moved. What have they done to me . Nejra we will get you back in a moment. That drawdown that we saw of 500nd 2. 5 in the s p seemed to be a bit of a reality check in markets to the reality of a second wave. Not only that, the possibility of slowdowns. Restrictions happening in the northeast as well, certain parts of the u. S. Particularly at risk. Question the strength of the rebound or recovery, depending on whether you make a distinction. A lot of red on the screen. The Msci Asia Pacific index down. Futures. 28 low open as well but it does look like if we do see losses, they will be more muted than what we saw yesterday. A second day of dollar strength. Our guest this
That is where we are at the moment. Another down day for crude. Brent also down. Tom lets get more analysis on the market. When you look at what happened with help things are playing out in asia, is it taking offer a stellar quarter . Probably a bit of both. Concern withys the cases we have seen. In cases like texas. They have a bit of a crisis going on there. The fact that new york, new jersey, and connecticut have now set a quarantine for people who travel from these hot zones and the rest of america. Imposing an economic constraint. They are worried there will be another abruptness to this. That the Economic Growth that america had. In states of new york, when they take this action, that is a worrying time. That would hurt businesses on a much bigger basis. That is what wall street is concerned about. The hit to the economy. There has been talk the u. S. Government is getting ready to do a fourth round of fiscal stimulus. There has not been any details yet. The market would be conce
On in hong kong with china over the weekend saying the security law could override hong kongs legal system. We she we see shares on the hang seng. 23,469 for the hang seng. The csi 300 pointing positive. Showing the resilience across these benchmarks. The kospi as well, we did get those export numbers. A slump easing a bit. Not very encouraging when it comes to exports of chips. Only a gain of 2. 6 . We saw a 13 advance in may. Perhaps this recovery is in an early nascent sense. The p cop, lowered by 910s of 12 . A decision coming through bank of centro and the rbnz later this week. Later on when it comes to assets, the disappointment has been with the china lpr, which they did not do anything. Given the credit numbers we have gotten, perhaps it was reason to pause. The selloff in bonds, are we going to continue to see that change . Ozzie yen, you are seeing a perk up aussie again, you are seeing a perk up. The dollar is rising for a fifth day. We have seen some flareups in australia.