And, asiapacific trade ministers concerned about rising protectionism, but no mention of it in their postsummit statement in hanoi. The start of the brandnew asian trading week. It is all about oil. We are fast approaching that meeting in vienna. The markets have pretty much priced and that ninemonth extension. Latest over the weekend, we are hearing that saudi arabia saying all opec producers are up for this extension. Take a look at this chart in terms of where Price Expectations are going. That front month the vti with the nearest expiration contract, converging at 50, so whether the news has 10 baked in or there is further upside when it comes to that oil price, even if we get that extension, and the flip side of that story is where u. S. Shale production goes from here, because the biggest opecion has not been producer sticking to their end of the bargain as opposed to whether their efforts are being undermined by increasing levels of u. S. Production. We have seen u. S. Inventori
Bloomberg. As our u. S. S close, and u. K. Markets. A holiday thinned session in asia. Things are decidedly mixed. Of ave not seen much reaction to saber rattling from north korea with that ninth missile test. It is a big week in terms of news flow and data, china pmi, and waiting to see if that feeds into the picture of the growth or thathad from china is as good as were going to get your the second half could look dicey. We had an announcement from the pboc on friday saying they are considering looking at what they call a countercyclical adjustment factor. We are still trying to figure out what that means in terms of the daily yuan fixing. China has been fixing its dollaryuan fix at gradually weaker levels, adjusting from the previous days close. This istion is whether a dollar of fact. It tends to look different when youre looking at the yuan versus the basket of currencies, or is this something reading more into come it that we are seeing a continued weakness when it comes to the y
Foreign investment really rising here. It is our top story today. Indeed, it is. Raising the stakes on the korean peninsula. The United States confirming that the north did indeed test an intercontinental ballistic missile. Agency,a central news the government they are saying kim jongun launched a missile capable of hitting the mainland by the end of the year. Peter is there in seoul. How is the city responding to the drama . A lot of noise, but not much reaction here. Many of the folks on the street view this as another provocation by north korea. , or atg, but nothing least they do not feel it is threatening. Life is normal, business as usual. And i think you saw that with the financial markets. After a little blip yesterday afternoon, it seems to have come back to business as usual. It is onw with kospi, the positive territory. Again, the reaction as i reverted back to basically a new normal. Rishaad this is just it, we were talking earlier on about how sanguine and prosaic people a
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. This hour, we are joined by the global head of strategy at martins family Morgan Stanley. We also talked to the current coo and soontobe ceo of the bank of morreale. In the meantime, we have a little bit of breaking news. Pmi out of the eurozone. This is exactly what we are getting. We are looking for a little bit of euro reaction. Pmi falling to 55. 4. And little bit better than expected. Not as strong as the month before, but they have been revised upward at 54. We were expecting 53. 7 figure. These other markets over all. We are seeing a little bit of a risk reversal. This after the u. N. Is set to meet on the north korea threat. What it means for the markets is yesterday there was clear demand, but today not really phasing the yen. Gold is down a touch or pretty much flat. Stocks seeing small gains, gaining 0. 1 . We will have plenty more on the markets but lets get to the first word news. Bank of england policymaker says u. K
We have world coverage here on daybreak asia, we will be live in seoul for an update on the north korea missile test fallout. Betty and we go to detroit for is announcement that volvo going electric in 2019. This is daybreak asia, live york andmbergs new asia headquarters. I am in new york, it is after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne and it is just after 7 00 a. M. Here in hong kong. Lots to talk about. Much from president xi and chancellor merkel. But we are focusing on the fmoc minutes. A divided fmoc when it comes to the Balance Sheet timing. Betty absolutely, the timing is key. A lot was propelled by confusion or what is confounding fed officials, and economists everywhere, which is, where is inflation in the u. S. , despite seeing lower Unemployment Rate numbers . We are almost nearer full unemployment in the u. S. , yet no inflation. That is complicating the feds direct timing. Coming back from a long weekend, we saw the markets at first it dipped then they rallied with tech shares. We will go