Successful launch, the apple card issued by Goldman Sachs hit some snags in 2019. First, our top story. Tech continues to be the outperformer in 2019 with the nasdaq on track for its best year since 2013. The tech index is up 35 , just 3 shy of 2013s banner year. It is largely due to apple and the chipmakers. Joining us is abigail doolittle. I am showing on my terminal a chart about divergence, winners and losers. What is your take away from the divergence . Abigail the clear winners, apple and facebook. Apple up 85 , facebook up 55 . The others up closer to 20 or 30 . Still great gains. And the complex is overall higher. 2019 really the year of record highs. The complex overall, the last record high overall back in july but those two Companies Really pulling away with the lead, apple and facebook. Apple putting in record high after record high. And behind that buying power, you have to think it had something to do with 2018. Because between october and december 2018, apple fell about
Protests take their toll. Shery china continues to push the liberalized market with a more flexible loan. Japan and south korea have come online. Lets get straight market action. Offie the nikkei 225 is. 3 . Best court of the again since 2016. Asian stocks are drifting toward the year end. We are digesting the latest figures. We are going to be getting hong kong trade numbers. Taking a look at was going on in sydney. We are seeing shares snap a threeyear game. Paul lets get you uptodate with the first word news. Wildfires in australia are expected to get worse this year week amid rising temperatures. 122 millions of million acres of land have burned. Nine People Killed and over 950 homes destroyed. Scott morrison says that firefighters battling the fires in New South Wales will be compensated. This is putting additional demands on our firefighters in particular. It means the turnouts and the callouts have been far more extensive than in previous years. This is beyond and above what is
Transact but difficult or impossible to forge and duplicate. It must be easy to verify, to prove that it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all kinds of people. It must be able to carry the information about what it is and what its worth without generating any information about how its used or by whom. It has to do this on platforms, networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records in their very functioning. In other words, figuring out the how of how to mix things like cash digital is a very tall order indeed. Which raises the question of why you would need to build such a thing. Answering that question will take us from fighting surveillance to building parallel covert societies to libertarian series of economics and money to the pursuit of human immortality. All of these agendas, all of these wise fed into the creation of bitcoin and the crypto currency and block chain landscape today. This isnt ju
Shery ahn thousands rally against Police Actions in hong kong. The unrest came up in toxic think china and japan in beijing. A study markets not kicking off trading in the early session. Sophie stocks stay below 6800. Not going anywhere fast given the holiday week. After a three dated decline. As investors consider the earnings trajectory going into 2020. Futures are pointing to gains in tokyo and seoul, adding less inn 1 10 of 1 , wellington. Switching out the board. The aussie dollar set to snap a four day gain. 1. 30ound trading below after being the worst performer ing itsht after cappting i longest lower run on no deal brexit. Yen barely budging as it is set to end the year, defined stronger forecasts. Bojs Meeting Minutes due later this morning. Paul . Paul lets get the first word news with haslinda amin. Slinda thousands rallied in hong kong monday evening against Police Actions to see moneys raised by a crowdfunding group. Police arrested four people over suspicions of money la
Indonesia. They are expected to keep the key policy rate at 5 . Rishaad we got the nifty futures in india with about 43 minutes before the start of the session, off a little bit. Will we get another record high . We found ourselves in this position yesterday. The market up 1. 1 . Currently wise, flat below the 71 rupee level. Tenure yields under some pressure. We have this story from the bank of india suggesting they are comfortable with a bigger budget gap, which would mean there would be less bond issuance. 6. 71 . 10 year, we go to new york and su keenan. The house of representatives have impeached President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of congress. He pressure ukraine to political rival, joe biden. It is only the third time in u. S. History lawmakers have invoked this constitutional sanction of the president. The impeachment will pass to the senate for a trial. A rate cut in australia are in doubt after a strong jobs report for november. The bond yield gained as inloyer