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We are watching the hang seng index. Australias market is only higher by 0. 3 . But we had this news that china will allow australias cargo to come ashore. Lets have a look at stocks. Clearing exchanges in focus. The u. S. Approved legislation that could lead to chinese firms getting kicked off american exchanges. Also getting a call from sidney. Tak is down 1. 4 . ,his big surging iron or holding at a record. In recent weeks, weve seen pickup of state owned enterprise default in china that have jolted the credit markets and rattled investors. One company in the spotlight is ever grand, which has accumulated the biggest debt in global real estate. We are joined by Stephen Engle in hong kong. In ournt to bring distinguished guest, the ceo and cofounder of sc lowy in hong kong. A bank and manager that specializes in distressed and highyield debt. Good to see you. You spoke to bloomberg about a month ago and you did talk about ever gr ....
Fourth quarter shipments are up yearoveryear. We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who calledd over what he vain toxicity running through company culture. Stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it ran very bearish it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . Etf up 8 10 ofnd 1 . Tones of risk off, uncertainty around the ....
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Hasl ....
His big tech hitting two big is big tech getting too big . Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures slightly higher, up. 1 , this after we saw stocks falling in the selloff in tech intensifying in the u. S. With the fomc leaving the markets and a Little Information lot of questions about the state of the economy and the recovery. We are seeing japanese futures holdings that he at the moment. At this of course as we head for the boj decision. Really not much change expected right there. Stimuluscy to step up receiving. We have a new cabinet in japan as well with the new Prime Minister su,gaga. Right now, under a little bit of it has reached the 105 level. Key restocks gaining. 25 . We have Second Quarter gdp numbers coming in sightly better than expected, but still, the worst contraction since the great depression, down 12. ....