Sliding Global Demand is increasingly hurting the mainland economy. Kathleen thousands join hong kongs biggest demonstration in months. The protests may drag on into the new year. Lets get straight to the market action. What are you watching . Sophie this monday, stocks in tokyo are gaining ground. The nikkei to 25 adding 0. 7 pipe 0. 7 . 225 economy the nikkei adding 0. 7 . The economy grew. Jesper sees a payoff in 2020 with likely massive boom in productivity. Checking on the yen, holding at about mid108 levels. We are seeing the kospi gain ground, up 0. 4 . The korean won is also looking stronger. We are seeing gains for the asx 200. There was a surprise resignation. We are seeing futures marginally lower this morning early in the asian session. A quick check on bonds. Keeping a close eye on 10 year jgbs to reach that 0 level for the first time this march. We are seeing dwindling demand on the short end as expectations fall for more boj stimulus in light of shinzo abes spending pack
The private equity giant 3g capital sold 20 million shares but there is a reason behind it. Stocks are set to open slightly lower well start off with that wework news, of course sort of trickling out yesterday, after the close. A delay in the planned Public Offering that has been so, well, such a focus over the last few weeks. As the price at least that wework thought it would get for its shares has rapidly declined over concerns about its Business Model, over concerns about governance, ever since they actually issued the s1, which mr. Cramer didnt take a fancy too, a lot of this goes back to mr. Adam newman, the man who founded the company and runs it. And this has been a chaotic process. Having reported on it now for a couple of weeks, i can sort of tell you ive never seen anything quite like this in terms of the disarray in preparing for a Public Offering. And i guess what was clear and perhaps funlly made clear to them was they werent ready. They were not ready to actually face pot
Vietnam coverage lets look at futures now as we get set up 30 minutes from now for the opening trading for the week were looking for a higher open at this point after a strong week last week road map, it does start with geopolitical risks for stocks. Iran and trade remain, of course, key focus. Stocks set to open higher as you saw. The dow now on pace for its best june in 80 years. Plus, President Trumps rate rant the president calling out the fed saying it is acting like a stubborn child. In deal moves, eldorado i cs entertainment, 8. 5 billion equity val ue deal, well dig into it. We enter the final week of june, the upcoming g20 meeting, tengs between the u. S. And iran and President Trump once again criticizing the fed. This morning, a little while ago, he tweeted, despite a Federal Reserve that doesnt know what it is doing, raised rates far too fast, and did large scale tightening, 50 billion a month, were on course to have one of the best months of june in u. S. History. Think of
Points are we seeing signs of a top well break down head winds. We have a 6 billion chip acquisition to tell you about this morning and what it means for other potential deals as well. And retailers gearing up for black friday but walmart gets slapped with a downgrade over at goldman today. We have the latest on the Retail Sector as we begin an abbreviated trading week due to the thanksgiving holiday, the dow and s p east in the midst of a twoweek losing streak na nasdaq coming off the Third Session and bit coin surges past the 8,000 mark over the weekend. I think the high 8101. 91 theres discussion whether or not it can hit 10k. I was thinking about zimbabwe, whoever has money may want to go to bitcoin. A chinese crackdown, they go to bitcoin. Venezuela, natural bitcoin because its defaulting on everything when you see defaults and people realize currency may be devalued, bit coin seems to be a Good Alternative jack dorsey this weekend disagreeing with sara fryer, the cfo of square. S
And in company news, the situation is getting dire for a retailer, seeing credit withdrawn as an accounting scandal threatens to doom the business. That is all ahead. Julie hyman is here. It sounds like the rally is taking a pause. Julie it definitely looks like a pause. Ulie we have seen stocks bounced between gains and losses since the open of trading, and see all three major averages into the red. We have some of the interestrate sensitive sectors like utilities and Real Estate Investment trusts lower along with technology, which you can see by the decline we are seeing. We have some analyst calls from largecap stocks, apple among them. Apple getting a rare downgrade from nomura. The analyst says positives are already priced into the stock, lowering the rating to neutral. Le shares up just 0. 8 apple shares off just zero point percent. Walmart, an analyst getting ready, saying ecommerce can be a competitor to amazon. Finally, General Motors are the third in our trio of largecap stoc