Beijing praises the decision while President Trump says he is not a fan. A focusson says now on his cabinet lineup. And plans for structural reform. Are seeing a lot of investors sticking by the sidelines, a quiet session in the u. S. Overnight. Wall street hanging out to see what further guidance we get from the fed after their decision. A great chunk of investors will be waiting for more details as to the revamp inflation target. We are seeing futures trading flat. This after we saw u. S. Stocks rising. The s p seeing a Third Straight session of gains. For a change, we saw gains across tech, outweighing the decline we saw across financials. Treasury yields at the dollar end of the day, where they started. We are seeing the likes of the dollaryen holding steady, this as we look set to see the appointment of yoshida suda as the new japanese Prime Minister. As well as hearing more about whether we will see continuity across his cabinet appointments. We are watching at to see if another
And the next bank of england governor is to be named later. Say fda head and you bailey is in pole position. Paul lets check on how we are doing in the markets. Australia just opened. We have a staggered open, so very much early days. Ever so slightly higher. New zealand continuing to build on record highs that it reached thursday, up. 5 right now. Nikkei futures looking kind of flat. We are of course waiting on numbers, cpi numbers for november, expecting to see a slight uptick mainly inspired by the sales tax. We also have futures just coming online, looking flat as well. Lets check in on the first word news and get over to jessica summers. Central banks made headlines with policymakers in swedenying on hold but swimming against the tide and ending half a decade of negative rates. Bank indonesia kept its key rate unchanged for a second straight month, saying the economy and exports will rebound in 2020. The boj also held as expected, with the governor echoing the more optimistic tone
Last years revenue went through china. Alibaba moves a step closer to a share sale in hong kong. The impending offer could raise as much as 20 billion. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. The s p 500 finishing at the highest level in five weeks. The nasdaq, the highest level in a month. Reversingtors yesterdays office to gain ground in yesterdays session. Most were in the green. They were led higher by Energy Stocks. Take a look at wti. Wti prices gained as much as 4. 5 at one point. Apparent attacks onto tankers on two tankers building up the tension in the persian gulf and leading investors to get worried about supply around oil. And we saw now on crude, jumping 2 in the last two sessions. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged. Lets see how we are shaping up to the asian markets. Sophie this friday, were facing a mixed session with type and commodity sectors in focus. Get activity data from china later this morning. Investors will be watching to see i
Lets look at crude. Dip 15 a little bit of a to 20 minutes back. It seems we are trying to recover to the 107. 30 level, the highest point of this monday. And gold, of course, the defensive play here. . 19 short here. Would beounced, which basically 20 u. S. Dollars. It is all about iraq. David. Ks for that, oil prices with growing fears of civil war and claims of a massacre and she is heard and shias urged to fight back. President obama is reluctant to put troops on the ground. Effectively i guess it is all out war. It certainly is not looking very good. When you are calling up civilians to fight in malicious, it is not a good sign. The u. S. Is evacuating staff from its own embassy and beefing up security. Things are looking pretty grim. Clerics got shia calling for people to volunteer and they have been. These are untrained soldiers. Where is the iraqi army . We have seen a huge chunk of the iraqi army just dont away. There are reports that some of the troops that were captured, may
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