The hearing was set before the bank agreed to pay 4 billion. The race for tiktoks assets aress the globe sees we told its been talking to geo platforms. We do have some breaking news crossing the bloomberg. Current account numbers coming through. We are getting the july current account surplus coming in at 7. 5 billion u. S. Dollars. The trade surplus sitting at 6. 9 7 billion in july and we are watching out for some other developments coming out south korea today. Highlevel officials of the Ruling Democratic Party and the government will be meeting to discuss a second cash handout and potentially a fourth extra budget according to local mode media reports and we are expecting perhaps an announcement when it comes to the social distancing measures as well as the coronavirus update to come. Lets take a look at the fed when it comes to the markets. It was a fallback overnight when it comes to u. S. Stocks and driven by a correction in the highflying tech sector. We saw u. S. Stocks falli
Singapore also in the red. Currency markets certainly, we have the sea and why in the frame at the moment. This is as we got the story today about beijing crossing gains in the yuan as it seeks to cheapen exports and bolster weak spending. That is a theory being compounded, saying a stronger yuan is ideal for beijing at a time when president xi is pushing for a more selfreliant economy. That is where we are with the currency markets. Yvonne yeah. Interesting call there. Thats more analysis with eddie cheung, e. M. Strategist. This all about shifting to more selfreliant economy in china. Given the gains we have seen in the renminbi, is it sustainable and how much tolerance is there for further yen strength . Eddie well, i think we certainly do believe there is more room for the cn wide to gain. First in terms of the dollar view, we think the dollar still has more room to go lower. We look at the indices, we are only at about three month highs. We are still below where we are in terms of
Know that that can hurt them as it has but they also know that it hurts mr trumps reelection bid because it hurts manufacturing farmers and others so the bit bottom line is its a theater driven by the calculus mr trumps calculus how much does the theater gain me and the how much does the theater lose me and what every resigned this coming week it will be overwhelmed by how that calculus shifts between now and election day next nor the november but if the chinese side decides to sign something that they simply cant deliver on because these are impossible benchmarks to fulfill all of us we said then wouldnt it just be a question of if not when then like how chinese will default in the socalled agreements. I think this is a bit more complicated the chinese understand that they get some real immediate advantages tariffs that were set to go into effect wall now thats been agreed to tariffs that were imposed in september are going to be either eliminated or removed its still true that half o
Lends a 2nd hand to break down this and other major developments in the euro zone and later 2019 has been a shining year for gold as the price has jumped on economic turmoil david mcilvaine financial help us dig into the sector and how its been competing against other asset we have so much to get to today lets go. Stocks are falling across the board from their all time highs monday the penultimate trading day of the year equities have enjoyed a strong December Santa rally and Oil Prices Continue to trade higher on china u. S. Optimism the pullback today is most likely due to the fact markets are in the midst of a liquidity and news desert during those final few days of the year chinese vice premier and top negotiator leo ho will visit washington this week where he is expected to sign phase one of the agreement however a political concerns continue to bubble in the background as neither side has released any specific details of the trade agreement and no text has been released while the
Dragging this phase one out for a long time a signing ceremony translations legal scrubs more and more fluff trickling little bits of information every single day to give the markets an illusion of progress but is this thing actually going to get signed i mean multiple analysts have already came out and said that the benchmark exports set by the u. S. Are simply unfeasible as they have exceeded that of 2017 why would china agree to Something Like that. Well i think for the chinese its a question of gaining time for them this entire sauce started with the initiative of mr trump its political theater weve said for a long designed to make mr trump appear for his reelection bid as the protector of the United States making the charlie knees and for that matter everybody else in the world give the United States a better deal beating up on the foreigners for cheating thats as old as methuselah in the world of politics. Next and mr trump is trying it again the chinese know that that can hurt t