With the dividend although it will be far lower than last years. Hong kong media tycoon released on bail. His broken National Security laws beijing has branded him guilty. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting Unemployment Rate numbers, and again, surprising to the upside. They fell to 4. 2 in the month of july, this after surprising to the upside the previous month, falling to 4. 3 in june. Of course, we have seen more job creation efforts. In fact, we just heard from south koreas Ruling Party Leader saying south korea will actively consider a fourth extra budget if needed. South korea has already pledged more than 225 billion in stimulus measures or roughly 14 of gdp to help put a floor on the jobs market, and right now, the july Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 2 . Lets turn to the markets and bring in Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. What are you watching . Korean alongside the jobless numbers, we are waiting on Australian Consumer confidence, due out later this morning, a
Benchmark Interest Rate at 0. 25 . That is expected. We had the debt maintaining it will continue with the policy of 0. 25 for the beginning of next year. They are maintaining the benchmark Interest Rate. This meeting coming after four new cases ending new zealands 100 today virus free run. Perhaps more later on. Auckland back in lockdown. A lot were surprised about the resilience of the economy. They have to weigh the global risks, as well. The qe purchases are interesting, as well. Most werethey have to weigh thel a bit historic pick for joe biden, the first africanamerican. Pick for Vice President. And the first asianamerican. And some say it will help propel joe biden to the white house. Lets bring in Jodi Schneider to talk more about this decision. It seems this was a no surprise pick from joe biden. What does it tell us about the Democratic Party . First of all, joe biden said he would pick a woman, so thats not a surprise for his Vice President ial running mate. It was thought h
Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
Rally, talk about a turnaround. South korea, hong kong, japan investors moving away from haven place. Remember, china had been quite an out performer. The hang seng currently up 3 . We are hearing chinese buyers are buying up those stocks in hong kong. Lets look at where futures are setting up. We see futures pointing to a higher open. It has been a volatile right. Ride. Futures volatile equity futures down about 1 despite jumps in the s p 500 and the dow. Aide, saying that the deal may not be up and running just yet. Flip the page and look at where we are, the kiwi dollar tokening further, starting buy bonds to stimulate the economy, and look at that, down 1. 7 . It is moving just like the stock market. People were saying bitcoin was a haven play. for more context in the markets, david ingles our coanchor joins us. David, could we say this is the end of the route, or a bear market rally . David it is hard to say if this is the bottom. Once markets stop reacting, that is when you know
On the others of the aisle, Jeremy Corbyn. Do not miss it. Manus it is bloomberg daybreak europe. It is all about global trade and the impact. Singapore export orders crash and burn 13 . Have you got a mindset of what is china growth, sub 6 . Nejra have you got a mindset of what that will mean in terms of stimulus . Some of the signals from the pboc when they talked about growth and inflation over the weekend was as things get worse, they want room for more policy moves. You can take something away from that, too. Policyyes, and those adjustments have moved the dial slightly. They are back at levels we have not seen since 20152016. Constructive discussions in trade help the equity markets a little bit and the pboc drip feeding rate cuts. Before biggest Central Banks in the world are on easy mode and perhaps we are under assuming the capacity of qe 2020. Lets look at the s p futures. Credit suisse says an extraordinary rally can endure. The u. S. Will underperform in 2020 because of pea