Suspending ant Group Listing major issues, this is days before the largest ipo of all time well give you the latest details. And social Media Election strategies how facebook and twitter aim to tackle misinformation on their platforms as voters head to the polls and beyond whatever beyond means, carl. David, thanks guys, were going to be talking all day and all night about arizona, florida, georgia, North Carolina, jim, goldmans got a note out just now saying because it would be difficult if the president does not win any of those states, quote, there is a good chance the election outcome will be clear on election night. Right, i think that thats what the market is saying. So the collectionive voice of the market, both yesterday and not just the morning, but when the nasdaq rallied in the afternoon and today with the futures, people say, we cannot afford after last week with the market being down, we cant afford to wait for the outcome we have to presume the outcome is going to lead to
For a september quarter. There are also concerns about the ant ipo fallout. And america awaits the outcome of the president ial election, seven states now holding the keys to the white house. Wisconsin heads to a recount and others face challenges in court. Foropen here in sydney friday trading in asian markets, we have seen an eerie calm and trading across equity markets, and globally, on expectations that policy gridlock will me know extreme measures when it comes to the tax front being taken and more status quote when it comes to the visible markets. We are up. 2 when it comes to sydney, the in aussie dollar and commoditieslinked currencies it particularly well. We have the u. S. Dollar fall to its lowest in two years. The nikkei 225, we expect weakness going into the open but we have japanese stocks trading in the green every day of the week. Also watching the yen, but interestingly, as an election respirometer, we continue to watch price action in china as well as volatility in ch
That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Am Kathleen Hays in york, welcome to daybreak asia, related stories this hour, monthly suggests the recovery is continuing. The Bloomberg Economic saying recovery above three point five percent. Nancy pelosi says a deadline for stainless steel well President Trump calls for a big spending package. Central bankers worn support will be needed for some time to come and new zealand stocks rise in the kiwi strengthens after the historic victory. Labor has the seats to govern alone, but she is considering a new coalition. Haidi taking a look at markets in asia we are setting up on a pretty cautious note when it comes to trading in the trading week here in asia, however we are looking ahead to Third Quarter gdp out of china with investors and traders came to see what the expectations were for this study growth were to continue. We are expecting numbers of about 5. 5 when it comes to economic expansion. This is our way of seeing into the first couple of minutes here in sydney just about two pe
The 3 trillion weve spent plus a trillion dollars more. Thats about 20 of gdp. Thats absolutely historic, and were prepared to put more money on the table softbank returns to profit with a 12 rides se investor shares soared towards the top. Sales grew by 67 in the Second Quarter. Stock markets here in europe have been trading for about an hour so far, and the direction of trade has been very firm. Weve seen a very decent rally play out after initial gains thats now translated to a pop of 1. 7 on the benchmark index, a fair amount of green at a stock level sector level and by industries you can see how the core markets are faring today we did see some early gains in the german stock market, and that is now actually outpaced by italian stocks taking the charge french and german stocks slight underperformance again by the uks stock market, just 1 3 4 of a percent yesterday. It was curious we saw the german stock market, one of the laggards which is typically not the case, but certainly re