Manus a warm welcome. It is a whole new paradigm. She does not know what to do. She has someone else here. Nejra great to have you in london. How are you doing . Manus not too bad. A bit shocked by the cold. There is a cognitive dissonance and credit markets. It is stunning. He refers back to britain in the 1930s. There are red flags everywhere. We point to them even without the coronavirus. That just adds a new risk. The question is, what is the size of our arsenal. Whether it is effective and if there is more to come. You see a stronger yuan. It strengthens. The question is, we have had nine days of the repo rate dropping. That turns around. But the repercussions are whether you are the through the worst of it. Lets roll it over and have a look at that. You have copper better this morning. Im talking about a meaningful shock to copper demand. Although the cash market is closed for a u. S. Holiday, you are still looking at the futures here. There is a world of money out there to buy t
Even though it might be a happy new year, not so happy in risk assets. Second down day. Dropping the most in more than three weeks. Caution coming into equity markets and risk assets here at the end of the year. Most currencies gaining against it. Edging out. Yield same dynamic where money is moving out of equities but also out of bonds. The10 year yield, it was arrest the stock the financial world. Carlos ghosn was put on trial in japan. Allegations that he denied. The former head of nissan said he fled to lebanon to escape injustice and political persecution. Lets bring in will. Great to have you with us. Carlos ghosn has been under house arrest and was allowed out on bail in april. How did he manage to get out of japan under such heavy surveillance . Surveillances is in the right term for this. Its a mystery. Has his threed he passports so perhaps he escaped from japan using a different name, different passport. But he was under very tight surveillance, house arrest since april. Ver
Nejra we wake up to retaliation from iran. We hear that this isnt war. Here are some of the market moves. Brent paring some of those gains. Gold strongly bid. Still firmly bid on that safe haven. Dollaryen as well trading a bit to the downside. We are coming off the highs for the yen. We switch the board and take a look at the 10 year treasury yields. We saw quite a precipitous drop at one point in the Asian Session, down 11 basis points. The 10 year treasury yield has actually dropped to below a trend line we have seen since september. We see asian equities on the back foot as well, but generally, equities paring some of the losses. After iran has said that this is the way,also, by volatility was created by the news of the boeing crash. When we got the technical issue headlines, we saw the market stabilize a little bit. A lot to digest. Iran retaliation. Iran has fired rockets at two iraqi airbases housing u. S. Troops in response to the killing of the general. Irans revolutionary gua
We are live in brussels. Manus warm welcome to daybreak europe, from london and abu dhabi. One thing we have to get our heads around, have we got a little overly exuberant about riskon a little too soon7the world bank comes out with their growth report. Looking into the depths of it, it is a world we havent seen since 1990. China, under 6 growth. Nejra good morning, and great to see you. We got factory numbers from germany causing some concern. The eurozone, another flashpoint. Going back to jim littell risk, geopolitical risk, it looks like for now we will not see further escalation between iran and the u. S. , but the risk of proxy war is still there, and as the investigation happens into the boeing crash as well, if that becomes a clinical headache for iran you wonder if they could feed into wider risk in the region as well. Manus yes. The question for markets here is whether there will be plentiful supply. Headlines,e, red well delve deeper shortly. Innate pharma, a big miss. The m
Thats across Bloomberg Television and radio. Manus nejra, very good morning to you. Its daybreak europe. There is only one topic. What is going to be discussed in davos in regards to Climate Change . Theres a wonderful piece. Central banks, does this week set the table for Central Bank Policy . What will the shift in gears from the ecb really tell us about the outlook for inflation in europe . Nejra yeah, theres a fantastic piece on the uber talking about peak decade. This is something that will be talking about peak globalization, peak cars, lots of different topics where we can get some direction, not just for 2020, but the whole decade ahead. Looking forward to those conversations. Us go inside the markets. To the dollar, first of all, and this is the important part. Ch bears are back in arge. Theyre pushing short positions back to the highest levels since may, 2018. Is it the end of u. S. Exceptionalism . Do you fight back against yield differential . We have a major story were tra