London. These are the people that we are going to speak to shortly. Dalioversation with ray is coming up shortly from china. We will be talking to Standard Chartered chief finance officer after it they said that they want to give back to shareholders and focus on dividends. We were gaining a touch on the stoxx 600. At the moment is pretty much unchanged. A lot of the impetus on the stocks will be what we hear from from washington, d. C. The u. S. 10whether year yield will go above 3 . Now lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The European Union will tomorrow challenge theresa may when it publishes a dropped brexit treaty. According to a person familiar with the matter, the bloc is said to set out in legal detail how the terms of the transition period will go. U. S. White House Communications director is scheduled to be interviewed privately to date by the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. According to house off
Tone of his statements may tell us a lot. Rishaad 8 00 a. M. In the emirates, this is Bloomberg Markets middle east. Markets dive into the and show you the landscape across the asiapacific region. Gmm is the function on your terminal and you can see that the leader on the board today is australia after that surprising retail figure coming up to the upside. Were seeing a rally on the asx 200, with Retail Stocks and macro funds reportedly selling into the rally. But we are seeing the rest of the market with a little bit of a mixed picture, including hong kong and china. And theres down, really is this anticipation ahead of that communist Party Congress in the fall that we arent going to get a lot of policy guidance, so perhaps investors will be staying on the sideline. What are you watching . Yousef there are quite a few other asset classes, the energy has quite a bit of movement. That is taking a bit of a breather, halting gains after the longest winning streak this year stop it is down
Welcome to bloomberg markets, middle east. We are seeing asian stocks falling for a second consecutive session. The dollar rebounding slightly. The optimism we saw earlier after trumps election victory is starting to fade. The dollar is trading near the lowest levels since november. A lot of it is about the u. S. Dollar. About where the economy is going. Take a look at this chart. It is specifically showing we january retrenchment in which leaves us with optimism below above preelection. The initial drive higher was off of the back of the promise of fiscal spending but the reality. S the line in yellow following the market was looking for 112. 8. What is needed now to sustain these kinds of levels is more clarity about fiscal policy. Everything depends on the pace of income acceleration to a larger extent than any optimism about the economy. Expectations may be coming down. What is interesting is the move between oil and the dollar. Take a look at my chart. That oil and the dollar are
Twitter. Class i am across the emirates, 4 00 a. M. In london 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets middle east. Claim seeing the regional index gaining slightly. A mixed picture. Investors trying to gauge a response after the fed left its key benchmark rate unchanged. Lacking clear direction at the moment. Yousef a pause for reflection in many of these asset classes. F1c offering little surprised in its statement. Of this chart gives you better expected these markets getting a lot twitchier. I pulled some strings to get you this number. 3 key indices. Fcx isity in global high, in white. Look how low that is compared to other indices. The bond index volatility. Keep an eye on these spreads with the rising Political Risk in the mainland continent. We are seeing volatility with the dollar index. Although volatility has been subdued after the fed rate. This chart will give you some clue to the direction of the dollar. Another explanation for the shoddy performance o
Be the worlds biggest ipo. Tata sons votes cyrus mystery off the board. It is 7 00 a. M. In doha. I am yousef gamal eldin. Shery i am shery ahn. Waning, off seems to be safe haven plays, easing and that section, cold and the japanese yen reversing that rally earlier. Investors right now looking for cues on where to go. Taking a bit of a breather. The trumpfueled enthusiasm , and if you look at that data when it comes to consumer confidence. Caught myf things attention and the folks at goldman sachs. Initial hopes for that pro growth drive in terms of fiscal policies, initial euphoria, but since then this massive gap between the soft data and the measures of real economic activity. That is the whitest in six years, that exuberance is probably peaking. Goldman sachs cites the Retail Investment preference for stocks over bonds has almost fully reversed. This tells the bigger story at play here. Confidence may be starting to wane, as well as the reflation trade. Functionhe gg on the bloomb