Deaths, and germany reports is highest fatalities since april. Brazil is resuming trials of chinas vaccine amid claims the original was political. Joe biden held his first calls with political leaders in tokyo and ellis and dolores seol. And calls for stronger twoway ties. He also wants to meet biden as soon as possible. Korean president moon called for a stronger aligns with the u. S. And said they agreed to Work Together on the virus and climate change. Financial markets in the philippines will remain closed as another powerful storm heads across. At least one person has already been killed. Currency and trading has been suspended. The typhoon is the 21st storm to hit the philippines this year. Winds gusting to 250 kilometers per hour. It is then forecast track towards vietnam. Global news, 20 four hours a day, on air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Karina Mitchell, this is bloomberg. Lets get a look at the
The chinext is lackluster here. Indonesia coming online. The futures are not going anywhere in singapore today. We are watching that dollars story once again. The dollar weaker here. We did see the pound falling after the bop made the clearest signal yet that it may be considering negative Interest Rates. 104. 81 for the dollaryen. Take a look at crude. You better not be challenging us. You are watching a bit of a bid for iron ore. Global coronavirus cases have no topped 30 million with more than 940,000 deaths. Reported the most cases since the lockdown in may. There were more than 10,000 new infections. The northeast of england is introducing tough new restrictions. The bank of england has given the clearest signal yet that it may consider cutting Interest Rates to below zero for the first time in its history. The policy is part will be a similar move shortly after. Here in the u. S. , the Federal Reserve has started the second round of wall street stress tests. Unprecedented restrai
We have seen strength. It has reached 690. That could mean a path to a level not seen since january. The hang seng up 1. 5 . Take a look at where we are in terms of emerging markets. They are trading higher. 1 shy of a recent losses. The kospi is up. The south korean assets will be watched today as it is expected to stoper restrictions a flareup. Gold down to 1943. Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina President Trump is welcoming a coronavirus treatment that involves blood plasma from corrupt recovered patients, saying it will be expanded to more sufferers after the fda approved its use. This makes it easier to make it accessible. Even though its full effectiveness has not been proven. The fda has concluded the treatment is safe and works. Virushas marked a grim milestone topping 3 million infections as the outbreak accelerates. New cases rose by 59,000 sunday with 57,000 people having died in total. South korea is considering imposing tighter Health Res
On in hong kong with china over the weekend saying the security law could override hong kongs legal system. We she we see shares on the hang seng. 23,469 for the hang seng. The csi 300 pointing positive. Showing the resilience across these benchmarks. The kospi as well, we did get those export numbers. A slump easing a bit. Not very encouraging when it comes to exports of chips. Only a gain of 2. 6 . We saw a 13 advance in may. Perhaps this recovery is in an early nascent sense. The p cop, lowered by 910s of 12 . A decision coming through bank of centro and the rbnz later this week. Later on when it comes to assets, the disappointment has been with the china lpr, which they did not do anything. Given the credit numbers we have gotten, perhaps it was reason to pause. The selloff in bonds, are we going to continue to see that change . Ozzie yen, you are seeing a perk up aussie again, you are seeing a perk up. The dollar is rising for a fifth day. We have seen some flareups in australia.
Investors are still concerned over chinas economic recovery even though there have been signs of stability creeping in. A sliver of good news from developers as we mentioned. Country garden and rishi sunak with them winning and sunak winning bondholder approval. Lets check in with the Stock Exchange of thailand in bangkok. Very little change. The dollar continuing the lurch higher there against the tide thai currency. The tourist numbers from thailand coming through and they are dependent on visitors revenue. The Bangkok Administration say 90 million tourists have visited the country so far and received 795 billion baht of revenue. You can divide that by 35. You lets get more on markets. The chief strategist at union bank there is here. How would you characterize the price action we are seeing in the Market Sentiment as we await the Central Bank Decisions . We would characterize it as a market is trying to transition the mindset from the disinflationary story focusing on Central Banks