As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. 1650 dollars near a troy ounce. Haidi taking a look at a deeper dive, david is in hong kong. What you watching
Rescue, is it really going to do very much about the problem . Futures pricing in the fed rate cuts at three for the rest of the year but of course this as more governments are taking action and coming to the rescue with fiscal measures. Speaking nowr abe saying japan will take bold measures if needed. He is also saying he will soon announce policies tackling school closures. Schools are in hong kong and now japan will follow suit from march 2. Let us get a quick check of the markets. Equity markets are giving into the rest of the global selloff. The cfx 300 is often the low of the day. But still down by more than 1 . The hong kong hang seng also testing the of trend that had been in place since august. Japanese equities bearing the brunt of the selling. In a correction position. Off by more than 3 just today. As np futures are rebounding just a bit. Up about 0. 5 after the worst day since 2011 and a decline of more than 4 . I want to take a look at some of the risk propositions. Repre
Higher. We had a Statement Issued from the bank of korea after a government meeting that outlined some potential support measures. The asx 200 at one point close to 4 , now higher by. 8 . Than twoes up more point 5 , this after President Trump spoke. We are also seeing safe haven bids. The dollar yen after moving towards 100, back wrenching above 10 three. The worst g10performing currency today. Gold also falling for the first day in 4. Treasury yields shooting to the upside. The 30year is up nine basis points. Some of the largest moves we have seen to the upside for the 30year over the past three years. Haidi Sarah Ponczek, taking a look at the action. And how very quickly the market story is changing here in the Asian Session. Singapore forr to more analysis on where the markets are going and what the catalysts are. Joining us is all across asset. Ditor, joanna what are we seeing in terms of this slight shift in the markets . Pretty typical after you have such a big down a deep marke
Facing. Really reminiscent of that merce outbreak in 2015. We saw that 10 billion extra stimulus package back then. Because of this, we are seeing the markets under pressure, but one exchange that im watching is small caps in china. Actually at the highest level since october 2016. We have seen those pboc Monetary Policy measures. Not to mention more news that china could be taking over a hardhit industry. Lets get a broader check of the markets with Sarah Ponczek. Pretty much Everything Else is now trading in the green as the trading session does progress. We have seen markets turn lower under further pressure. 0. 2 but still on track for its best week since june. The hang seng now down 1 . Many times this week we have seen the benchmark approach 50 day moving average, but we have seen it fail as we have seen today. The nikkei roughly flat, but modestly lower. After trading as high as a half percent early on. Then we see the south korean kospi and underperform her across the region on
Countries. We are continuing to see the corporate fallout, we will get more details on airlines. Delta saying it is suspending u. S. To china flying routes through april 30. Asked theirsoft staff to work from home. Amazon as well. The longer it takes to test anybody, the greater the risk they will be spreading the disease. Mike pence saying most cases are mild and they have flulike symptoms. Compared to the tests the u. S. Have carried out, 2000 by the end of last week, compared to 140,000 in south korea. In the u. S. We are seeing 11. Lities rising to this is having a concerning impact on the markets. Lets get to the Market Action. Speaks,president pence we see markets accelerating losses. Now trading at the lowest level since september. The chinese equity come back facing a roadblock. Seng headedg hang for its lowest level of 2020, and s p 500 futures extending the trading session losses, closing down 3. 4 , now off 0. 8 . Earlier futures were moving higher as much as 0. 7 , so quite