Consumer prices beat forecasts. Shery shinzo abe faces yearend pressure. His popularity is sinking to its lowest in more than a year. Japan is coming online alongside the south korea as well. Lets get straight to the Market Action with sophie. Sophie. Sophie we are in the final stretch of 2019. Japanese stocks did manage to pull through on thursday. The topix with an eight day drop. The topix hitting ground along with the nikkei 225. Today, stocks are trading exdividend today. Lets check in on the open in seoul. We are seeing downside moves for the kospi. We will see what the index can crack 2200 points. Switching it now to check in on the mood in sydney, the asx 200 gaining some ground with gold miners among the biggest advancers. Resolute leading the pack, jumping 7. 5 percent earlier with spot gold on course for the best year since 2010. Jumping into the terminal, that momentum could make for a solid 2020 for gold as traders make attempts to carve out a higher trading range after bu
And we speak live to the former white house chief Economic Advisor gary cohen. Up, a new Community Pro or a new economy for a new economy. We bring you exclusive interviews with the Credit Suisse chief executive, ubs, and many more. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am a Francine Lacqua. Before we get to any of those interviews, let me just have a quick check on the markets for you. Look at stocks dropping in europe. Asia was a mixed session. Fromcomes as support congress for protesters, kids prospects of a trade deal. We are also looking at bonds edging higher. Beijings chief negotiators says he is cautiously optimistic after a phase one trade deal. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. Rudy giuliani and donald trump demanded a quid quo pro from ukraine. Is astunning admission damaging testimony for President Trump. He went on to say giuliani was holding up a white house meeting unless ukraine announced investigations. The latest debate, democrats focused on Presid
Record. Manus it is daybreak europe. The words of the Vice President of the United States of america now open up a new salvo in the trade wars. Those words are the president has made it clear it is going to be very hard for us to do a deal with china. Geopolitics and human rights is the new escalation in trade wars. Nejra it is interesting, the timing of these two stories coming through both having an impact on the markets in terms of the hong kong bill and how that could have an impact on the negotiations. They are going to go back to that may template in terms of rolling back tariffs. We know how much hope there was ahead of that only to be thwarted later on. Highrises of the beijing. We have come here specifically to host some pretty good interviews. The roster is pretty high quality. It is the Bloomberg News Economy Forum. We will speak to the Standard Chartered ceo and the ubs group ceo. We are going to catch up with the Goldman Sachs chairman and ceo david solomon. The former whi
He weighs in on the trade war but says the group is extremely wellpositioned despite the risk. If we are not forced to do deals, we have a good strategy. Years, wehe latch you are wellpositioned to capture organic opportunities. Of course, if we have an opportunity to evaluate nonorganic options, we will, but it is not something we are forced to do. Nejra defense undercut. Gordon sondland says President Trump demanded a quid pro quo from ukraines new president as he implicates senior officials in the administration. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. Breaking numbers coming through on the bloomberg. The event headlined is that is proposing suspending his 20182019 dividend. That is the main thing to look at. Fullyear adjusted ebitda comes in at 802 million euros. A little soft on the fullyear adjusted two number. 42 billionevenue at euros. Estimate, 41. 6. That comes in slightly better than expected. The strategy was key for investors as the industrial giant reports these numbers tod
The highs now. You might imagine, schwab and Td Ameritrade looking to get together. That has both stocks higher and has e trade way down, almost 10 now. Guy lets talk about where we are hearing europe. European markets, we are seeing the pound a little bit stronger today, the we have seen a little but of a selling story coming through in the last halfhour. We are also looking at a stoxx 600 which is down by around their. 5 around 0. 5 . Bonds are selling off as well. Yields just a touch higher, but not by much. Earlier on, we were maybe two basis points to the upside, but as you can see, that has now narrowed to around one basis point. Trade is a big theme, so lets talk a little more about it. The u. S. China trade war weighing heavily on the minds of World Leaders and business leaders. Theyve been at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum taking place in beijing. Foothillsstill in the of a cold war. We should pursue common, comprehensive, and sustainable security, and reject zerosum game and