Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. Lets get a look of the markets. Another day, another record for the s p 500 with communication and tech stocks leading the gains. The s p 500 riding rising above 3200 ever. 3200 for the first times ever. The 10 year yields steady. Still above that 190 handle. Could we push towards 2 on the optimism over u. S. China trade. Atexpect a deal to be inked the start of next year. Lets switch over the board. Yesterday, we touched 31 basis points, the steepest since october 2018 on the 210. That reflects the view in the market that we see a little bit more today. Recession fears receding for 2020. We speak to socgen this hour. They have gloomy forecasts out there. No deal risk has been coming to the top of investor minds again. Oil also heading for a weekly gain on optimism around u. S. China trade even if we are flat today. , andrew of england bailey has been chosen to succeed carney as governor. The chancellor could reveal the appointment later today. Governo
Monetary policy settings to more free trade. Shery pressure mounts on Narendra Modi as he struggles with his unpopular citizenship law. The bjp is headed for defeat. Lets get you to japan. We are getting the latest minutes from the bank of japans october meeting. Boj members saying it is appropriate to clarify the downward bias for rates. It overhauls their forward gardens and they are saying it is important to enhance cooperation with the japanese government. This was back in october before the 120 billion in fiscal measures announced by the japanese government this month, so lets get straight to the market action. We have the open in japan in south korea. And south korea. Open in japan and south korea. Sophie we have little in the way of fresh catalysts. We will be watching for reaction to news that boeing has requested to halt shipments. Sony interview after the company apologized to customers for not being able to keep up with demand. It looks like a muted session is underway. Chan
And tear gas the streets. Australia orders large scale from bushfires as the death toll mounts. Sophie lets check in on the open in sydney after the asx 200 best annualrop the performance since 2000. We see it open slightly to the downside as we wait for markets to come back online elsewhere in the region. We are getting some data from australia coming out this morning. Home prices notching up the biggest threemonth gain in a decade. We are not seeing much reaction in the aussie dollar, softening a touch after hitting a fresh high. New zealand equity markets remain closed and the kiwi dollar keeping fairly steady after topping 67 this week and japan also remaining offline thel january 6, again, currency cap a Fourth Annual gain. Paul thanks very much. President trump says he can assign the first phase of a trade deal with china on the 15th of this month ahead of a visit to beijing where talks will begin on the next part of the deal. Lets bring in our china correspondent now, selina wan
Shery the bushfires rage on in australia with at least nine people known to have died. The Prime Minister says there is no direct link to climate change. Paul lets get straight to the Market Action with sophie in hong kong. We have the holidays upon us in tokyo. We are seeing stocks date after a threeday drop in the topix in nikkei. Flipping the board, checking in on bonds. I want to highlight tenured jgbs. , treasuries just opening on change right here with the 10 year yield. Bonds arechmark offering 5th street sessions. Aussie shares are sliding for a Third Straight session led lower by resource players. This morning. We are seeing gains for the korean benchmark. Yuan Holding Steady against the greenback. Shery lets discuss those numbers out of south korea because we saw experts in the first 20 days of september falling only 2 . Exports with china rose 5. 3 year on year. We had a little bit of weakness with chip exports falling 16. 7 . Also, imports falling only half a percent year o
But security saying you will see the boj stop buying longer take 2020. In a move in the aussie in focus today. We are hearing hedge funds switching to bearish. The dollar is weaker ahead of inflation data due for november. Were also watching the thai baht, stronger against the ringback. Trade data against the greenback. Rishaad the Indian Trading day, futures are looking flat. What we have seen, discussing a short while ago, record highs for the nifty and the sensex. Friday no exception. It toheless, that brought a record high for the index of some of the heavyweight stocks. The rupee is flat. The 10 year yields, big move lurched to the downside, Something Like 10 basis point in terms of the yield. The prospects here of further Interest Rate cuts, again brought to the fore. It says something that has gotten more and more credibility as we do see further signs of weakness, particularly on the demand side from the indian economy. Thats a look at what we have in prospect. With look at wha