Rishaad its going nuts, bitcoin. Im just going to show you what is happening here. 85,000 record, over earlier today. This shows you the progression of bitcoin in terms of gold lasts since november of year. We were trading below one ounce of gold. Now you need 6. 4 ounces to buy one bitcoin. Thats the story at the moment as bitcoin seemingly goes in just one direction. Is it a bottle . . Bubble will it survive the apocalypse doomsday some people have been betting on . Like gold, there is a finite supply of bitcoin. Sales of gold coins from the the most iniding the first three quarters of 2017 in favor of this cryptocurrency. Were even last week we wondering, is this about to come to a really messy end . Investors apparently brushing aside concerns over technology. We did see a drop in gold on account of that rebound of the dollar. To the rest of the markets. The financial markets, if you because we are seeing stocks recover from the recent pullback. Lets go over to sophie. Japanese mar
Rishaad what an afternoon it was, just one gentle slope all of way down to record a loss 3 . Let us put this into context. The csi 300 benchmark in shanghai, shanghai shenzhen stocks. What happened to that beijing that is what investors in china were asking themselves after this date of largecap shares plunged, rattling the market, one which has become rishaad margin debt below the bubble peaks, has been increased seeing for six straight months. A lot of investors nursing their wounds this morning. Haidi. Haidi absolutely. Getting the Bigger Picture look. Coupon that before 2015. A 3 jump or fall in any of these chinese indices was almost a calm day. How farteresting to see it has, and how little volatility we have had from the worst in 2015 until now, so we are looking ahead to the shanghai and hong kong open, taking a look at how sentiment worsened and if it provides a little bit of support. A lot of analysts saying there is no point in them going in right now because it will make no
And sees a Million Dollar plus loss in the last quarter. Haidi janet yellen defending her time in office as the race for the fed narrows to three. Fromad half an hour from house price figures. We look at tier one cities in particular to see how things go there. This exemplifies how the pressure on these homebuilders are lessening at the moment. N with house price growth and 60 year on year. It has come down with a bank to earth. The prices for shanghai and beijing have been more modest. For the latest update on the sauce prices and where the market is going from here. Those house prices and where the market is going from here. Haidi president xi jinping reiterating this theme, that housing is for living, not speculative buying. In the lastwatching few days of the 19th Party Congress for news about this reshuffle of the Standing Committee and news when it comes to the 10year of the pboc governor. Tenure of the pboc governor. We do have the ecb policy looking for framework of tightening
It is a bit of a selfless plug. A look at this chart that we have right here for you you the decisionmaking structure in china and how quickly the top line decisions are made and make their way down and permeate into Global Financial markets. If you do understand that this group coming out later in the mostay be offered Important Group of people for the Global Economy. Mye in point of this was morning peas from Bloomberg Markets Forward Guidance is this taking out of excess capacity in places like steel, it has been a real priority. We are in a situation where Producer Prices are trading up a lot positive data whether g10 or gv tv 15 72, follow that chart. A lot of good fives recently coming is at that china is trying to rebalance a lot of the imbalances and it is stage run. This is another version of the chart. What are we looking at it . The dow jones overnight, it is over bought but a lot of earnings in the form of caterpillar. , putting that together with ppi and those are closely
And, asiapacific trade ministers concerned about rising protectionism, but no mention of it in their postsummit statement in hanoi. The start of the brandnew asian trading week. It is all about oil. We are fast approaching that meeting in vienna. The markets have pretty much priced and that ninemonth extension. Latest over the weekend, we are hearing that saudi arabia saying all opec producers are up for this extension. Take a look at this chart in terms of where Price Expectations are going. That front month the vti with the nearest expiration contract, converging at 50, so whether the news has 10 baked in or there is further upside when it comes to that oil price, even if we get that extension, and the flip side of that story is where u. S. Shale production goes from here, because the biggest opecion has not been producer sticking to their end of the bargain as opposed to whether their efforts are being undermined by increasing levels of u. S. Production. We have seen u. S. Inventori