Ed you are watching daybreak asia live from new york sydney and hong kong. Haidi counting down to asias major market opens. Paul u. S. Inflation signals complicate the fed outlook. Penciling in a first rate cut by mid 2024. Sx traders are back on the yen intervention watch. Country garden to suspend trading for monday in almost a dozen onshore bonds. Softbank reportedly in talks to buy the rest of chip designer arm from its own vision fund. Shery u. S. Futures early in the Asian Session seeing upside after the s p 500 struggled for direction in the friday session. It finished at a onemonth low. Really after fluctuations between gains and losses, big tech led the declines. We had the nasdaq 100 seeing the longest losing streak on a weekly basis this year. Big tech pressured the markets, not to mention investors were really trying to digest Inflation Numbers, whether it is Consumer Inflation Expectations unexpectedly falling. Producer prices surprising to the upside pressured the treasur
Slap the strongest fix ever, 1000 bits hired to stabilize the currency. Yet the currency is not looking at a gains even as we speak. It is also about the bond market rout happening globally, and we have seen in year yield surging 50 basis points in august alone, and when you surge the stocks go down. Msci asia index erasing some of the gains, up to its sixth straight day of losses. Benchmark and new zealand down. The benchmark and singapore also lower, and we have csi 300 index barely in positive territory. We have talks about how some companies are buying back their shares, not lifting sentiment as well. In the fx space, some green, aussie dollar up about what of 1 . You want yuan pretty flat. You have got to question, it is a weaker dollar story today, so how effective has of the yuan fix been . Take a look at where we are in terms of gold. Gold is up, oil surging beyond 80 per barrel. It begs the question what will that do for inflation and the fight against inflation . And terms of
2. 2 on the hang seng sessions. That should take us below the 100 day moving average. Jakarta, nothing much so far. It would take the trunk of Southeast Asian markets. We should be looking at some steep losses. Mse i china down to percent. We are watching out for that. The bonsall of taking place separately. We are softer in crude but it has not been solved for seven weeks of gains on this. Yvonne it is interesting. When you look at how the little space everyone has been pressing down the slowdown in china. Youre not seeing that and it will markets. We will demand in china is looking strong given the pent up demand in travel. Maybe that is the bright spot to the commodity space. Look at Country Garden, this is the story that keeps on giving in some ways. Your of Morgan Stanley same default risk is moving. All those gains we sell post politburo have evaporated. David s they are on the csi 300 which should be at 3800. What is the price target of Morgan Stanley . Yvonne . 75. David 75 mor
They tried to settle claims of thousands of former employees saying they were cheated of severance payments. The Billionaire Elon Musk laid them off after acquiring the social media platform last year. That is news coming through from x, or twitter, whatever you like to call it. That just breaking on the bloomberg terminal. Having a look at markets in play, just checking in with what we have, it is a day where we are seeing mixed fortunes ultimately and we have asian equities in cautious mood. We had the hang seng which started the day going great, but we have turned tail now, off by 0. 3 . The nikkei to 25 continuing its winning streak, up 1 and leading the charge across this part of the world. If you look in the column, we are seeing treasury yields layout as well and making themselves felt in this part of the world. We have got the sale of securities taking place from the bank of japan, and this is all taking place as we do sees elation mounting that the boj meeting is set to normal
Thursday saw a wave of announcements by companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as in particular property developers and banks react to the Country Garden Holdings Limited (OTC: CTRYF) default on a $15 million interest payment Wednesday.