A warm welcome to daybreak. It is 7 00 in europe. If you are in the United States, happy president s day. Balance herece with the cash markets closed and you have the equity futures trading lighter than normal with the best run in equities within pushing awayd against volatility and rising yields. Survey with the market drop to reenter and it is all about the United States this week and the fed minutes and what you get on wednesday. Andill begin to understand builds to the testimony with the actual power of powell. We have some numbers coming across your bloomberg terminal. We have breaking news on a dividend coming back and platinum declares a dividend. It is an interesting time in the market with donald trump raising and theter of tariffs dollar has trade tensions and the possibility of tariffs in the United States and the dollar manages to eat out this. I mentioned to you that the paperates are opening and will come over the next few days. Who keeps purchasing it . The chinese canno
Liquidity, we do with hongse markets kong on the halfday session. Middle markets after the holiday. Korea also a lot of action and taiwan. ,ut the markets are trading extending gains on wall street overnight, the s p higher for a fourth straight session, coming back from the 10 decline from january highs. This is despite higher inflation and bond yields. It was that combination that caused a selloff. We are getting more analysis on what we are seeing when it comes to trading. Taking a look at southeast asia, some markets coming online. Lets take a look at what david is looking at. We are looking for the year of the dog. Not a great deal of trading, but what we are seeing is positive. David nice way to end the year. Up for a fourth day across asiapacific, about 6. 5 left until we regain the peak we lost rout. Ing the asia. Is doing quite well, stocks are up. Yields are on the way up as well. Sie 10 year yields closing in on the new zealand 10year. The spread of the aussie over the u. S.
A policy decision out of the bank of korea staying on hold as expected. Surveyed that we stated that the bank of korea would stay on hold at 1. 5 . Who succeedsas to the governor as this was his last decision as the governor of the bank of korea. There has not been a lot of consensus over who replaces him or if he gets reappointed. Take a look at this chart. This is the conundrum they are facing. We had the rate rise in november. Export growth is also coming in a little bit weaker in terms of that last read that we had. Debt is oneath of the conundrums that bank of korea is facing. Banks, aany central fine balancing act. It is largely down to the fed. Take a look at the market reaction. Lets go over to sophie. Sophie you have text talks global stocks are rallying. Stocks in tokyo are rising. Have all of these stocks rising for a fifth straight day. Morgan stanley cannot a report saying that lithium prices will peak this year and have by 2021. An eye on keeping chinese lithium stocks at
Regulation is 1. 9 trillion to 1. 9 trillion. These businesses pass on the cost of these regulations in the price of there products. Families are spending about 15,000 a year for businesses to comply with government regulation. I am sure that we can agree mr. Chair, the businesses need to be fairly regulated. But when those regulations are killing jobs that is just not right. Several years ago in aa highly partisan vote with very little republican support for 2300 page. Dot frank bill was passed and since then theyre have been mountains and mountains of regulations and rules designed to smother our Financial Services industry. One part of dodd frank is a great concern of mine the too big to fail regulation. Now, when f soc is trying to determine what bank and other nonfinancial institution should be designated too big to fail it means that the taxpayers we will have to step in and bail them out. We all no theyre is a huge difference. They handle their retirement the Retirement Savings
These developments, these Global Developments unfold and we will in the coming months. Were we to judge that these developments did create substantial risks or were changing the outlook in some notable way then a change in the outlook is som affect Monetary Policy. As we have said all along, we have no judgment at this point about the appropriate date to raise the federal funds rate and our judgment about that will defend on unfolding economic developments and how they affect our forecast. You stressed in your testimony that the pace of rate increases is more important than the timing of the first rate hike and many economists, including the imf argued that the fed should wait longer to start raising rates possibly waiting until next year, but should then follow a slightly steeper path of subsequent rate increases. So the question is, if the fed waits longer than currently forecasts to start raising rates will that mean a steeper path of rate increases . Well, if we wait longer it cert