Trading session in the u. S. Overnight. Hang seng will be the focus, down 121 point. Another choppy session after quite a comeback yesterday. Jakarta is muted right now. News they will be easing lockdowns in the capital despite the rising cases. Sydney leading the losses, down 1. 2 . Three in a row that have been strong, perhaps the pboc sending a message they will not use currency as a weapon. Onshore strengthened the most. Dollaryen, you are seeing that haven trade come back. As you said, the main market event over the next 24 hours is this presser by President Trump, he will announce u. S. Policy on china curbingijing passed freedoms in hong kong. His top advisers said china will be held accountable by the of ministration. Is it Wishful Thinking in the u. S. Administration to think maybe they can change chinas behavior and plans for hong kong . I think nothing is impossible, but this does seem extremely unlikely. If you look at all the actions beijing has taken, it is clear there ha
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Under pressure after a big rally for a couple of days. That part of the risk asset trade, falling, pressuring stocks a little bit overall. Oild boil clearly clearly is important. Talk to us about u. S. Treasuries. We are going to have to borrow an awful lot of money and its putting the treasuries under some pressure. Abigail Something Interesting is happening. The announcement came out that treasury is going to be a lot of issuance at the long end of the curve. Longer bonds are selling off. The two year bond is rallying. You have this steepening for the yield curve, which is healthy. Some saying this issuance toward the long end is to steepen the yield curve, normalize it, so to speak. This steepening yield curve could create some of the stock we are seeing for stocks the chop we are seeing for stocks. That a steepening yield curve after uninversion last year we did have a brief after an inversion last year, we did have a brief inversion. Theres more issuance at the long end of the cur
Coronavirus cases continue to rise as the fallout cripples the Global Economy. China may be forced to abandon growth targets for the year. We are just getting some news crossing the bloomberg when it comes to expectations for summer earnings out of we are expecting a pretty down quarterly in terms of the impact for the asiapacific. We will be bringing those to you shortly but in the meantime, we have data out of south korea. Shery we are getting the current account numbers for south korea for the month of march. Current account surplus coming in at 6. 2 3,000,000,000 fine 6. 23 billion dollars. The current account surplus narrowing a little bit from the previous month of february. Also, the month of february being revised lower to 6. 4 billion. The goods trade balance coming in at 7 billion. The surplus was a little larger than the previous month. Given that we do have the coronavirus pandemic and april export numbers really taking a hit, the march current account numbers not looking t
In the last week, there has, High Pressure is going to bring us some of the warmest weather because of a spike in temperatures. Of the year, and this thing is we followed him along on a call to a home in san ramon. Massive, stretching all the way up to canada. So theres no way, no how, were the garcia family gls entertain not going to see this happen, the good news in all of this for tomorrow morning is we will start off on the cool side. And get up early tomorrow morning, and crack the windows because of the Community Girl open. Being offlimits. Get some of the cooler air in do you know why it is closed . Here, to start the day. Because of the sickness going around. And then you can shut those with more people working from windows before it gets too hot, home than ever before, casey so your house hopefully will says he is responding to more stay cooler. House calls. Would very 56 in the east bay were finding a lot of tomorrow morning. Peoples offices are in the and 54 in San Francisco