Talks have been delayed until thursday. Diplomatic and trade tensions between australia and china formed the backdrop as the rba prepares its latest statements. Economists see no change. Shery we will start with breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the final Third Quarter gdp numbers. When it comes to the year on year numbers, a contraction of 1. 1 . This is coming in a little better than expected. The quarter on quarter numbers also rising more than expected, 2. 1 , and beating estimates of growth of only 1. 9 . We have seen some pretty positive ratings especially when it comes to the south korean export numbers. They have seen a lot of external demand, especially in china and the u. S. , despite the fact we continue to see virus infections accelerate in those economies. Again, thirdquarter gdp numbers for the final numbers now beating expectations and coming in at growth of 2. 1 quarter on quarter, haidi. Haidi lets take a look at where we are sitting when it comes to thi
In Central America and the caribbean rushed to help those made homeless by Tropical Storm. Well the transitions are joe biden presidency in the United States is gathering pace with some decisions expected in the hours ahead the president elect is due to announce a task force to tackle what he says is his top priority the coronavirus pandemic on sunday biden visited a Church Cemetery where family members are buried including his late son donald trump spent the day playing golf inside washington and is refusing to concede defeat his campaign is planning legal challenges in states where hes disputing the counting of votes but World Leaders including israels Binyamin Netanyahu and saudi arabias mohamed bin salma. And have congratulated buys in on his victory former u. S. President s and republican george w. Bush also sent his well wishes well heres more of whats george w. Bush said in a note spill sit on instagram he thanks by is in for the patriotic message that he delivered on saturday n
Four days of losses is about to become five. Are down 7. 5 over the previous four days. Cross assets, we look like this. A bid into the bond market briefly in treasuries. It did not stick. It was a treasury market selloff. This morning, it is about yen strength. Dollaryen coming down on 0. 3 . Again. Rude is down 0. 9 mark wheret is that you have these massive producing countries like russia and saudi starting to worry. These are very hard prices to deal with when you try to balance your books. It all comes back to demand. Everything is about demand right now. When you have france and germany going into lockdown, that does not bode well. Euroyen is striking me this morning. I feel that for the first time it is acting like a haven. It is her membrane what it is supposed to do. Jonathan a bit of yen strength. Chancellor merkel giving a wakeup call to her fellow eu leaders. They failed to act quickly stop the pandemic. For more, our western europe managing editor joins us. Walk us through
Politics at home and abroad for years to come. The ipo has taken a dramatic turn with jack ma and other executives summoned by regulators. The company ahead of scrutiny. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the october Consumer Price numbers. Month for month, we are seeing a contraction of 0. 6 , really missing expectations of analysts. Not to mention it is a slow down and Inflation Numbers from the previous month. Not surprising given we had a pickup because of the weather related issues. We had monsoon season. And lowerlf Pressure Energy prices. Growth of prices is only. 1 which is a deceleration from the previous year. Not to mention it is under analysts expectations. Only in october we saw bright about 30 lower on average compared to a year ago so we are getting pressure on both numbers. For now, lets turn to the market. We are seeing u. S. Futures slightly higher online. Lets turn to sophie in hong kong. S p adding about 1 10 of 1 at the start of the session in a
Upper 106 level before u. S. Retail sales and trade talks are planned for the weekend. We are seeing dollar weakness in recent days. Gold futures at 1946. It is above 1900, a wild ride for the metal after surging 30 this year. We saw the plunge below 1900 tuesday. Gold is still an of the bestperforming commodities of 2020. 66. 22. 10 year yield at lets flip the page and look at where we are in terms of the chinese shares ahead of a slew of data for july on friday, including Industrial Production and retail sales. The csi 300 is in negative territory, down. 4 . The yuan is at 6. 93. The hang seng is getting some gains. Center, infront and negative territory right now even as it the highest estimate. Tencent also played down the Trump Administration as we check been. Ban wechat the kospi is up on a 52week high. Look at southeast asia, this is asias worst performer this year, correctly up. 5 . It may rise to between 6500 to 7000 this year, driven by pretty much the government stimulus pac