Haidi you are watching daybreak asia coming to live from new york, sydney, and hong kong. Annabelle we are counting down to asias major market opens. Shery australia has just come online. President biden wraps up his trip to tel aviv signaling full backing for israel and supporting its claimed that Palestinian Militants were to blame for the gaza hospital blast, but fails to come concerns of a wider conflict with asian stocks falling the slide on wall street and investors digesting big earnings with netflix surging after posting the best quarterly subscriber growth in years, while tesla dipping after missing estimates. Annabelle this set of earnings, geopolitics are the two main things we will be tracking through the session today but we have the open of the asx 200 and you can see the direction in the early moments is clear with the drop in futures pointing to losses of 1. 2 so we will wait a few more minutes for it to come fully online in the session but really what we are monitoring
Among the numerous sub-units of K-pop powerhouse NCT, the boy group under SM Entertainment, NCT DREAM stands out as the master of triggering the fever onstage.
The antitrust regulator said Thursday it has decided to give conditional approval to IT giant Kakao s acquisition of a controlling stake in K-pop powerhouse SM Entertainment, as the deal could hinder fair competition in the music streaming market.