Effect. Is still flat,n and we are watching the korean won, seeing some slight weakness this money. Indonesia is coming on the line at the moment. Chinese stock continues to extend these gains, after the reopening of the holidays. Pointing positive as well. We are spending some Inflation Numbers coming out of india. Where watching the commodities of course. That slide in for the second day. Supply constraints are starting to ease right now. Bolivia and its biggest both owed could be at capacity. And a bit ever treat in iron ore. A bit of a retreat in iron ore. Tom there seems to be potential for the currency to resume gains. Lets discuss now with fred neumann, cohead of Economic Research at hsbc. Let us bring you an update on the nba. The l. A. Acres definitely l. A. Lakers have beat the miami heat. The l. A. Lakers have now won the chairmanship 17 times. This puts them toasted so the caltex. Season one longest record. The nba was effectively frozen out by the controversial tweet back
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
As it could have been, certainly not as restrictive as the rumours suggested it would be when the Administration First announced announced it was considering Something Like this. You know, it really only targets new investments into chinese firms, and only chinese firms that derive more than 50 of their revenue from sensitive sectors like ai, quantum computing, and advanced semiconductors. And that is far more narrow than we couldve seen because last october, the administration talked about a broader range of industries that were National Security sensitive and would require either Export Controls or some sort of investment restriction, or both. As michelle mentioned, businesses get a say in this what kind of reaction are you expecting from American Companies . Well, American Companies that have been investing in these will not like this and will push back, and try to seek implementation that is as narrow as possible. Itll be a back and forth conversation, im sure, and ultimately the a
Beijing may finally be winning its war on smog. Plenty more on those stories over the next couple of hours. Calendar today is trade numbers out of china for the month of december appeared rounding out has been a year of significant recovery when it comes to chinese exports in particular. 5643. After the declines over the past couple of years we do see two years of decline followed by that recovery. We are looking at december, a 10 year on year rise when it comes to exports coming in dollar terms. Thats a little moderation from novembers 12. 3 rise. Imports looking to pick up significantly. The brighter spots in that. Continuing to paint a picture of synchronized global recovery. Such a stronghad base to come off of in 2017 we might be struggling to hit doubledigit numbers in 2018 for exports. Certainly there is also the cloud of trade tensions between the u. S. And china lurking ever in the background. We are 30 minutes away from the opening china and hong kong. Sophie, we were thinkin
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