Seeing. Sarah you look at equities in japan right now. The nikkei 225 of more than five percent, trading below 20,000 for the first time in over a year. What is already been very rough price action is only getting worse as time goes on. You look at s p 500 futures trading at the 5 limit from the friday reference price. 28. 1 nine. At futures continue to trade. They just cannot jump although it or fall below it. That is the first time we have seen a limit down since donald trump did win the presidency in 2016. The asx having its worst day since 2008. Msi market watch, the asiapacific region is having its worst day since june of 2016. What is really pulling lower is the energy stuck. Off by 8 . That is the worst day since 2008. It is your upstream energy companies. Your producers that are weighing. The worst day since 1988. Also some of your worst performers coming out of hong kong. The legs of oil fields having its worst day ever, off 15 anything. Energy related really all 15 . Anything
Saudi aramco brushes off concerns. The fed says the u. S. Is in a good place and the data justifies keeping rates on hold. We hear exclusively from the vice chairman. Marketsck check of the close on the friday session in the u. S. We saw fresh records for u. S. Stocks with the s p 500 dating 1 . Energy and materials led to gains. Oil jumping the most in six weeks on a more positive, solid jobs report, not to mention optimism on demand as we saw chinese manufacturing data more positive. We also had positive trade sentiment with that China Commerce Ministry saying the u. S. And china had achieved a consensus in principle. The nasdaq gained more than 1 , the dow gaining three hunter points. 300 points. We have asia stocks set for gains after the rise on wall street friday. We had this week a lot of focus on chinese trade data, along with policy decisions from policy in Southeast Asia and australia. This monday we have australia retail sales headlining earnings, the bank missing earnings r
Billion of e. U. Products. Hong kong protest take a violent turn. The government commends vandalism. News out ofing south korea. We are getting Consumer Prices for the month of june year on 0. 7 . Ricing this is as much as it rose back in the month of may but also slightly disappointing yeartations of a 0. 8 rise on year. Month on month, it contracted zero point 2 , which is a bigger contraction as expected for the month of june. We have seen a lot of pressure for Consumer Prices. We are talking about lower oil prices. Brent crude prices down 20 on average in the month of june compared to one year earlier. Not to mention the domestic demand in south korea is pretty weak at the moment. The bank of koreas signal we will probably miss the forecast of 1. 1 inflation in 2019. Pretty far away from the 2 inflation target for the bank of korea. We can see proof that inflation and theions are low inflationary pressures are low. Gaining onlyr cpi 0. 7 , missing expectations. s ctia gaining only
There are a lot of Different Things and the messaging we get in the presser later this afternoon is it a one and done scenario or changing of the back and setting a new course for the direction of rates . The strength of the wage negotiation has been heralded by the government and economists and caught a lot of people by surprise and the question is if it trickles down to the Smaller Enterprises but today this is what we see the japanese yen Holding Steady and we expect it to stay like that ahead of the boj decision but equities a notch under pressure so far, they were benefiting from a weaker yen and we will see if that trend continues but lots of different areas and parts of the market that could benefit from the policy shift, banks, brokerages, smallcap stocks some of the things we are tracking here. Korea is coming online. The focus a bit of weakness coming through but we will be tracking tech stocks because we had tech news overnight, tesla saying they will raise the prices of som
Also traction in the nikkei and topix today. Playerseeing energy showing signs of weakness, crew tracking at a twoweek low, so weakness coming through from or oil players. From stockstch out that have been doing well as of in particular. Some of the movers we are keeping an ion, samsung has hit a record high, up 4 . We have been speaking about the stock, finally investors have turned positive about pressure for change. You are seeing weakness from some of the korean cosmetic players. They rallied strongly during yesterdays session. Cosmax and others have been upgraded to buy. Metals, sliding from a twoyear high, perceptions in the market that supply is still ample. Iron oree saying should be near 50 a ton. Higher for an fourth session, up. 2 due to dollar weakness. If we look at the offshore renminbi, up. 2 . Fixpboc increasing its yuan slightly from yesterdays fix. Haidi thank you for that. To a twoweekose low, some fluctuations in the session. Cessio refuses to lower production despi