Itsco prepares to make trading debut in riyadh. Reports say it is considering a secondary listing in asia. I want to get you to some breaking news out of new zealand. We have a fiscal update for you. They are cutting the Budget Surplus forecast. It now sees a budget deficit in 2019 and 2020. And smaller updates after that, specifically 943 million deficit. This is a previously forecast billion dollars. Returning to forecast the following years, but only just. Forecast was for 2. 1 billion. Growth of 2. 1 seeing a sharp wasward revision from what previously forecast as well. 2020 is an Election Year from new zealand, too. Just some headlines there. Thats get straight to the Market Action with Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie lets kick off with tokyo. Topix withand divergence. The end is Holding Steady. A bunch of event risk including the u. K. Election and the upcoming fed decision in hong kong with that tariffs deadline on sunday. A 10 year yield hovering around zero. Lets switch
Were the u. S. And china were expected to sign a partial trade deal. Alltimeks hit an high. Apple, lift, and facebook, all top earnings estimates. The start of trading begins in asia. The start of training in sydney trickling online. Trading has already been underway in new zealand. Weekve policy stocks in from the of it. New zealand trading flat at the moment. The kiwi dollar has been on the move. Higher after 1 west bank said the rmb would pause from november from cutting rates. Centralbank action is the name of the game as investors and asia decide for the meaning of what fed chair powell said overnight. It was a hawkish cut, saying things would stay on hold until the material changes to the Economic Outlook. In his press conference, suggesting inflation is key as to whether they would be any hikes down the road. That does not look likely at the moment. As wes looking positive go into a bank of japan decision day. Shery we have south koreas Industrial Production numbers jumping 2 af
They are blocked from buying the securities. I just wanted to highlight that there are already decisions made so that you can implement this in a very efficient manner. Finally, if you will turn to the last slide, we will just summarize the next steps in terms of confirming that it works with the planning document and we have confirmed that we have already worked with t. D. Ameritrade on setting up a process for ongoing, and it is just a look to see if participants start using it, we are at 195, currently. We will continue to monitor the fees that are charged, and we have looked at that. Again, it is very competitive and favourable. And then we will run those quarterly screens just to make sure theres nothing that pops up on that restricted list that i already outlined. That is the ongoing process. And they have set up a system that will identify any security that might go to a pink sheet or have some sort of reregistration security, which can happen in various situations. And we will
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The relative results relative to the benchmark. We did add that two new funds, the 2060 and 2065 funds. They will show up performance next quarter. They started in april. Looking at the core lineup on slide 14, this is what we call our stoplight sheet and you will see, just in terms of definitions here, the legends down at the bottom righthand side, the green means it is in the top half relative to peers, yellow is in the third quartile, red is in the fourth quartile, and this is a very favourable report. One is the absolute returns have been very strong, next to each return is the actual ranking. For instance, the social equity fund ranks as the top performer in that category. You will note that there is some read in the active equity. So it is three quarters the way down and third from the bottom. This is really a valley oriented discipline valueoriented discipline manager managed by fidelity. A low stock fund. They are finding value overseas right now. It is up to 40 in internationa