Remarkable considering the last 48 hours. The dollar continuing to strengthen, and crude at a very sanguine 59. 19. Guy lets talk about what is happening here in europe. Weve got a risk rally underway. Stocks reasonably well bid. Volumes pretty good as well, so that is worth paying attention to. Pound down by 0. 3 . Brent crude down as well. The pound down on those carney comments. Lets talk about what is happening with the trade narrative. Vonnie yeah. China announcing that vice premier liu he will travel to washington next week to sign the first phase of a deal with the United States. Joining us from washington is bloomberg trade reporter shawn donnan. It would appear the events of the last couple of days havent deterred china from that january 15 date we heard before for a signing ceremony. Shawn absolutely. This is the first time weve heard the chinese confirm that the vice premier will come to washington. The real theme since this deal was first announced way back in october has b
Is this an isolated case of bringing it into their purview . This is a oneoff given how far has fallen, this is as close as you can get to a subsidiary company. Runoff, but if softbank is going to put so much of their own money in for someone else, you need to keep an eye out on how close other Companies Get to them. That brings me to it, we have seen amazon in particular say that it will come to new york, then they forget about it for hq to, but not really. And we have seen amazon come to the city as well. Change, theybig had Just Announced a 330 they Just Announced a lease in hudson yards, showing that they are committed to growing in new york city even after everything that happened youd we have facebook and google continuing to and, google just signed a real a se, hudson yards will is this taking on a Silicon Valley two feel . Takes withe a few 30 of occupied facebook, this taking into the Advertising Media taken at 24 , theres a lot of room to catch up but they are starting to cat
London time boost the odds . Keep an eye on that speech later. President trumps suggestion that rhetoric is debt could be wiped out spooks wall street. The comments back. We will discuss. Move, you have barely anything happening here. Ibex. N eye on the it was a big move to the downside and we saw it replicated in other Asset Classes. Keep an eye on how spanish markets are digesting what we got overnight. Lets talk about the gmm and what is happening around the world. Asian markets had a good nights sleep. Nothing really happened overnight apart from some weak retail sated sales data. That was pretty much it. The dollar has gained action traction. Im wondering whether europe comes back with a bank this morning and delivers some surprises. We will watch the market open. Could be an interesting start to the day. An interesting session. Lets get a first word news up eight update. Selfie we are starting with puerto rico which faces a Government Shutdown at the end of the month. That is acc
This is the second hour of daybreak asia. Im yvonne man in hong kong. Its just after 7 00 p. M. In new york. Im betty liu. This is Central Banks week. The boj is just hours away from hearing what they have to say about monetary policy. Then we have the bank of england and also the fed. We will see how markets are paying attention to Central Banks. Yvonne how big of a narrative going toj, the fed have . We see the Political Risk being priced into markets a little bit more, given the backlash weve seen from trumps travel ban. Lets get the latest. In asia witho far stocks following wall street lower amid trumps comments which have put investors on alert. Japanese stocks falling over 1 year. The kospi coming back online lower 4 10 of 15. Lets check whats moving on the of 1 . Lets check whats moving on the nikkei 225. Given the yen movement, take a look at whats going on in the export space. Elsewhere in the region, stocks lower. N wellington and sydney materials and energy dragging on the