Shanghai composite, 3 10 of an percent of the upside. Lets have a look at what is going on currency wise. This is the dollar index. Not that much changed. Bitcoin. Oves is down nearly 2 at the moment. [indiscernible] thetocurrency left to 18,000 level. Citigroup causing a stir with a 300,000 plus estimate with regards to bitcoin. U. S. Dollar index pretty much unchanged. Stasis as weoil in wait to see what is happening with some of these internal squabbles taking place with members of opec, mainly the uae. Mitchell with the first word headlines. Early south koreas trade data shows exports extending their recovery. The yearose 11 from earlier. South korea shipments received a boost from china and the u. S. Cap exports were up almost 22 . Singapore sees at the economy expanding by between four and 6 next year as it rebounds from the virus. Thirdquarter gdp shrunk by 5. 8 on the year and the estimate for contraction was revised to six to 6. 5 . The decline for the Third Quarter compared t
Sep currently up 0. 4 percent, on the back of protests over the weekend. Rishaad 44 minutes to go before we get trading underway in india. Nifty futures coming under pressure, down by 0. 4 . Looking at the crude oil picture, they are sustaining some of the gains we have had. A 10 rise in the last five trading days. It could be on, the march to the 100 level according to some. And a look at what is going on with the yuan, at 6. 76. We see the fiveyear loan prime rate holding study from the previous month. Holding steady from the previous month. Lets have a look at what is going on with the first word news. Lets join karina mitchell. Karina a very good morning to you. New japanese Prime Minister has held his first call as leader with president trump, with the para bowing to strengthen ties. They also agreed to incorporate on a vaccine. He may meet the u. S. Secretary of state soon. Others. Spoke with trump says he will nominate a successor for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg th
Markets already. Inbecause it has been priced the markets already. Doubly more downside as opposed to upside on the trade front as we focus on global growth, textiles under pressure. Textiles remain the focus, Technology Remains the focus, in u. S. China trade negotiations. Win, is touting this as a and i just wanted to highlight, this is down by 3 10 of 1 , but on its way to be the biggest thek exchange here in Southeast Asian region, 5 00plus billion in value, and stocks are leading. Lets look at the fx space. Currencyent to avoid rishaad well, we are looking to the skies now and the stock of manipulation, but Goldman Sachs says nothing new there. Reporter says the hour. You have got china space sat, haslinda. Haslinda you know why we are dollar yuan is not tariff watching it . It went as high as 10 . Traumatized. China data Going Forward, people the daily limit, on a day when chinese stocks are down, this will look and see where the yuan goes from here. Develops and manufactures ver
Washington says the meeting was constructive. Joe biden is the front runner of the democrats second night of debates. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting cpi Inflation Numbers missing expectations for the month to month. It is contracting 0. 3 . The second month seen cpi inflation in south korea track in the negatives. In expectation of prices to stay flat, but we are seeing deceleration monthtomonth. Year on year, it is also a miss. 0. 6 tion accelerating instead of the expected 0. 8. Also deceleration from the previous month of june. Year on year growth of 1 acceleration of core cpi year on year. That is a little above expectations, but the numbers that matter, monthtomonth and year on year are missing estimates. Monthtomonth deceleration and deflation for a second consecutive month. We have seen pressure given oil 14 es, brent crude was down on average. This could put pressure on prices. We still have to say, very well below that target of 2 . Lowerven after the ok thei
Asia. Coming to you live from new york city and hong kong. We are counting down to asias major market opens. Paul the top stories this hour, asian stocks poised for the next open with chinas july activity data ahead. Argentinian assets and in freefall with the government valuing the peso is a political outsider shakeup the election race. Chinas property crisis is rippling into the 3 trillion Wealth Management industry. Miss payments on Investment Products highlighting wide arrests. We meet the man who could be taiwans next president. He tells us exclusively how he plans to reissue voters and maintain peace. Shery look at how u. S. Traders are issuing. We are seeing outside after we saw major indices in the new york session gaining ground. Tech stocks leading the gain, seeing the best day in two weeks. It was low volumes across the board. We are talking about august as a slow month. Even small moves can make a big difference. The russell 2000, smaller stocks, falling to that onemonth lo