To global reflation. Equally important, the data out of china. Have a look at this bloomberg chart. Uptick were expecting an , but not this, 6. 3 , now back above 6 . Here is your base effect, steadying, and pick up right there. Bloomberg intelligence is telling us in a note is that it might the sentiment driven. Is it supply side . Partly. This could turn, but that the in said, if you did have to choose which industries are benefiting, look up stream, steel. Downstream, not quite. Upstream, steel and rebar prices, closely coal related. You can see where that one goes. Very interesting. We will be flushing out that story and a few moments in Market Reaction when markets open in hong kong and china in 30 minutes. In the meantime, singapore, taiwan, malaysia coming online. Sophie, currencies, but the equity markets so far. Sophie these are equity markets. Higher byeing led tokyo and seoul, korea. Some marginal losses for stocks in kuala lumpur. While stocks are higher, bonds falling, the
Rishaad asia stocks under pressure, but Global Equities are at record highs. Lets bring up chart 5892. Ly is all amid this extreme low volatility. It is the worlds best regional rally in turquoise. The 60 day volatility in the white line has dropped 5. 9 to the lowest since 1988. In line with u. S. And europe, and the vix markets hitting new lows. The calm, but no storm, at least for the time being. Pause. May be a muted at lofty highs when it comes to emerging markets in asia, japan in particular. I dont think you can blame investors for taking a breather. Lets get it over to sophie with 30 market reaction. Sophie we have corporate earnings perhaps giving impetus to profit taking for japanese investors given those highs. Leadingei 225 benchmarks in asia lower here it asian stocks falling for a second session. I want to highlight the currencies space. The korean won leading losses as importers why dollars. B. N. P. Paribas says it is better late than never to buy the currency as cyclic