Droulers in hong kong. We are coming down to asias Major Trading opens. Tech giants leading a stock rebound on wall street. Ai in the spotlight with apple in talks to build googles gemini engine into the iphone and nvidia unveiling its new processes. Haidi the rba is in focus with investors watching tuesdays decision for any sign of a softening in hawkish bias. Im Stephen Engle outside the bank of japan headquarters in tokyo. It is a momentous day with reports the central bank is poised to end the yield curve control and etf buying as hiking its key rate for the first time in 17 years. Haidi it is a busy day when it comes to the central bank docket. The bank of japan with steve in tokyo. Also watching the rba decision. This is the picture as we start out the staggered start to trading. We are seeing the asx 200 a 10th of 1 . We did co strike a stocks. Gaining higher financials and banks led the part of the gain. Modest gains. A 10th of 1 . A lot of caution as we did see the rebound in
Generation keim. He resigned as parliamentary vice minister for Foreign Affairs after the raid. Prime minister Kishida Fumio says its regrettable that the situation has aroused the publics suspicion. He declined to discuss it further due to the ongoing investigation. But he says the government will continue to promote Renewable Energy policies. Japan Wind Development denies bribery. The company failed to join offshore wind Power Generation projects. The government held biddings for them between 2020 and 2021. Akimoto brought up the bidding process during a diet session in february of last year. He asked for evaluation standards to be reviewed. The government later changed them. Akimoto was involved in drafting a bill several years ago on promoting offshore wind Power Generation. He did not respond to questions from reporters when he returned to japan from an overseas trip on thursday evening. Two u. S. Navy sailors have been arrested and indicted on charges of leaking sensitive militar
Persisting and road closures in the sierra. Officials are continuing to advise people to not travel to the sierra. Ski resorts remain closed and how caltrans is battling the storms fury. We have the updates on those treacherous conditions and it is the final push to rally bay area voters to cast their ballots before tuesdays crucial election. Todays last blitz by the San Francisco democrats for change to get out the vote. From ktvu, fox two news. This is mornings on two. All right. Blizzard conditions continue as weve mentioned, the snow just keeps coming down. Check out this video. This was tweeted out by chp truckee just a moment ago. And as you can see visibility is an issue. You cant see the roadway because theres so much snow on it as well. And so if you can imagine driving up to tahoe this is not the scene that you want to see. And its very quickly when you have conditions like this for things to get out of control. Again, highways are closed, chains are required, and it is just
Keeping in contact, linkedin has big plans for asia. We are going to set the challengers and the rivals. We are heading into the end of the trading week here in asia, and we do have a really supportive lead from wall street as we had the dow passing 24,000. The s p seeing its longest streak, monthly gains up by about a decade. We are going to get a potentially before christmas. We have over the last half hour or so had the announcement of suspension until 11 00 a. M. Friday morning in washington. The key compromise has collapsed and is scrambling to salvage that. Buoyancyeing the passed through to the Asian Session. Couple of key numbers when it comes to the agenda today. Japanese inflation edging slightly higher, but surging still half of that target. We saw south korean inflation falling more than expected. The other piece of data we are watching for his the pmi. The private manufacturing survey. This one versus the official reading which came in stronger than connected yesterday, at
There are some things going on outside the market. Good morning. Emma the Trump Administration is opening the door to more oil drilling in atlantic waters. The president awarded the interior department to auction oil and gas rights off the east coast. President obama had ruled out using that territory. Police say it would be a suicide bomber who chose to explode a bomb in a subway station because of the christmas theme. He is described as a 27 euros m a great from bangladesh. He told police he was a follower of isis. The u. K. Once a trade relationship to eat you identical to the one now. The International Trade secretary said that would ensure a smooth transition. They already have harmonization with the eu. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. Alix i want a Million Dollars for christmas. David thats unrealistic. Thats a really good deal. We will have all of the obligations and no say in the eu. Fo