Infection rates low in tokyo but hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Jack ma looks to make more headlines. He is aiming for a 200 billion valuation with between listings in hong kong and shanghai. Look at how take a we are setting up when it comes to the asian open. We have a lot of positivity carrying on from that session. Investors are backing that buy the dip trend. The nasdaq hitting the alltime high. The s p hitting positive for the year. S p active futures contracts a little bit lower at the moment but it seems like the positive. Evelopment on vaccines trading sideways if you will. The dollar was broadly weaker in g10 except for the yen. We had Dollar Strength and yen weakness overnight. That is the handle we are looking at ahead of Inflation Numbers out of japan and getting machine tool numbers as well as some Retail Sentiment numbers by way of Department Store sales. Crude and gold were both a little bit lower in the asian start to the session. Some positive de
As well. Down 0. 9 . That was expected considering all the liquidity we have seen pumped into chinese mainland markets. The hong kong hang seng well off the lows, very modest losses. Roughly flat on the day. Up near 1 surging, at the moment. As you mentioned, this after losses of 3 in the u. S. Trading session, the worst day in two years. That completely detracted those gains for the index. Lets look at a couple of the risk metrics. Across the fx and commodity riskts, seeing a little, seeing a little bit of tension, a push toward risk. Put it all in perspective. Some major moves in these Asset Classes in the past couple days. The yen having its best day since august. The aussie dollar trading near the lows since 2009. Look at commodities, copper pushing for the upside, representative of Global Growth in the economy. The gains in gold over the past five days starting to temper. 1650 dollars near a troy ounce. Haidi taking a look at a deeper dive, david is in hong kong. What you watching
Decision tomorrow. Ok cutting rates during the sars outbreak. Stimuluspecting fiscal measures out of south korea, not to mention a hong kong budget so lets get a check of the markets with our cross assets reporter. Downading at session lows, 1. 9 . The nikkei two to five bringing yeartodate losses to more than 6 . Beensi 300 stocks have paring some of the losses, but still down. Hong kong done more than 1 . Fluctuation in 0. 25 . Ow up 0. 5 i want to look closer at the technicals when it comes to the nikkei 225. When you are in a deep selloff, when does it end . Can bees moving averages looked at as Technical Levels of support. It already dropped to the 50day and 100day moving averages. Moving average currently holding, bouncing off that level. We will see if we can close above it. If not, it could portend a super selloff. Lets get more Market Reaction in korea. David ingles is in hong kong. What stands out to you . On top of the price declines in the south korean won , for example, we
Thursday, the hong kong democracy drama takes a new turn. Backing the protesters. Retaliate,tened to if he did. The yuan also fell. Boris johnsont conservatives will win a healthy victory. A quick shery a quick check of the market. Japanese yen the strengthening. Still at that 109 level. This is after six sessions of weakness. The longest losing streak since 2018. We are seeing some of that Risk Appetite reading with u. S. Features also losing ground. How the kospi trading is down half a percent. The korean won has been weakening against the u. S. Dollar, and we continue to see so we do have the bank of korea policy decision on friday. I have to say that the aussie dollar is under pressure. Keenly stocks are up and rising for a fifth consecutive session. Lets get the first word news with su keenan. Strengthened as a poll suggested the conservative party might win a majority in the next election. Boris johnson is morning that aere could be there is real chance of no overall victory and
Investors see trade tensions using. Winskongs prodemocracy in a landslide. Record numbers turn out for the first vote since the unrest began. Good morning. Lets have a look at what the futures are telling us about the European Equity session. The first of the week, looks like it could be positive. Factoring in a little bit of the balance we saw in the u. S. Market on friday and adding to that. U. S. Futures also suggests we will be higher. We saw that bounce in the u. S. On friday. Trump saying the u. S. Was very close to a trade tax. Lets put up that. Trading around the scraps of information with regard to trade dialogue between the u. S. And china. With that in mind lets get to the gmm. That shows us what is moving in the asia session. Hong kong up by 1. 4 . Trump line from friday. Also the news from headlines, china talking about tougher penalties for companies that break the rules around intellectual property. That may be is designed to sooth tensions between the u. S. And china be