Data likely to report a substantial fall in Second Quarter of gdp. It will confirm a first technical recession in 29 years. Raced shinzo abe after he set his plans. The backing of the ruling party. Voters have another view. Haidi we are just getting south korea Inflation Numbers crossing the bloomberg. Slightly more inflationary when it comes to consumer prices. When it comes. 7 to the year on your number for soft arena. Southxpectations korea. Beating expectations. 3 . The month on month number of. 7 . Betterthanexpected expectations. Cpi caore number year on year coming at. 8 . Continuing to edge up. Still shy of 1 that we are looking for. We are starting to see a recovery when it comes to domestic demand. The influence of supportive base effects. Hoping to lift the inflation somewhat. We have the renewed resurgence in virus cases in the letter half of the month, likely to be accounting for the fall. Energy costs still low compared to the previous year. They are picking up. That woul
Kong and shanghai. 5t includes valuation of 22 billion, more than aramcos record sale. And polenta here is also going public. There were none the most valuable private companies. It could be silicon valleys biggest listing since uber. Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures coming online much flat after we had major u. S. Benchmarks ending the new york session mix. Investors are and waiting for fed chair powells speech thursday about the longawaited framework review. Dow was pressured down. 2 , declining for the first time in four days. Gains andung between losses but managed to reach an alltime high for the third consecutive session. Six sectors were higher, five lower. Energy was actually a drag on the s p 500. Take a look at what oil is doing. Pretty much flat right now. This of course after surging to the highest level since march. Not to mention gasoline futures were also at the highest level in five months. We have hurricane lower rattling towards the u. S. Gulf coast. More than 80 of
South korea. Infections slow in japan, but young adults becoming more vulnerable. Do infections in new zealand itsend weaken reputation as a covid19 beater. The Prime Minister is delaying the election. Down that is weighing matters in new zealand, but lets look at u. S. Futures. Uncertainty continues to plague markets as we kick off this new session in asia. Uncertainty when it comes to trade with the phase one meetings being postponed indefinitely. We are also getting an indefinite stalemate when it comes to stimulus talks, as well as uncertainty over the future of mailin voting and usps. Theve futures trading on s p, positive 5. 1 . The nikkei 225 up by about. 25 . We are continuing to watch price action on the topics, the worlds best performing index in august as we continue to see the encouraging recovery in industrials and financials. The japanese economy sent to crater by a record in the latest quarter. We are getting gdp numbers later today. In new zealand, back to one of the to
Estimate. The pboc governor says china will implement the phase one deal with the u. S. He said that in an interview with tsinghua. Chinext is down, extending a decline after bearish reversal. China internet stocks were up friday following the ban on tiktok. Some say forget the tencent risk, asian stocks are silly by. Alibaba still a buy. S p. R tech giants on the we have futures in the u. S. 3343. Ng to a flat open, the s p 1 away from its alltime high. This on the outcome of the u. S. Stimulus talks. Also the u. S. China phase one review. We are taking a look at live pictures out of taiwan where alex azar is going to meet the taiwanese president. He is also meeting with taiwans health minister. This is a historic visit. He is the highest ranking u. S. Official to visit in decades, threatening to further stoke tensions between the u. S. And china. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson last week said beijing was opposed to the visit, calling taiwan the most important and sensitive issu
To break trump has yet the stimulus long gem. Softbank backs the virus handed record losses in may at a drop of the value, some may change with earnings later. Lets get a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure, down 1 10 of 1 . We have President Trumps executive actions on stimulus measures boosting sentiment. That weighed in indices. The s p 500 saw the highest close in sixmonth in the longest winning streak since 2017. Aska futures at the moment japan comes back from mountain day holiday. I mentioned softbank earnings coming back later. The japanese yen Holding Around the weakest in more than two weeks. The bloomberg dollar index unchanged at the moment. This after it touched a oneweek high. Watch out for some data this morning. We are getting south koreas 10 day trade data. We are getting japan numbers, not to mention singapores final gdp numbers. Crude headed towards 42 a barrel after gaining the most in a week after s