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the new health bill scrapes through the house. ant financial remains optimistic despite fears the u.s. regulator will block the deal. rishaad: a new era of competition, the maiden flight of a plane designed and built in china. that all-important jobs report about 12 hours away. significance given the weakness in recent months. series of promises by president trump as to how many jobs he will create. need to .5 million a year to reach that target, projected by that green line. we are not there yet. it would depend on sturdy wage and salary gains. trend has been losing momentum in recent months, but gains in employment in march overstated that weakness, revisions as well. six-month average is a bit , 163,000 jobs. it doesn t compare to last year, 237,000 created every month. haidi: that s right. that nonfarm payrolls number what the market is focusing on, also six fed speakers, including janet yellen. fromll get more nuance that previous policy statement, the weaknesses t ....
trade. they simply steven mnuchin said the u.s. deserves the right to be protectionist. haidi: i am haidi lun. this is daybreak australia. we are moments away from the opening of the first major markets. .etty: i am betty liu we are looking at how all the action on wall street will play into the asia-pacific trading day, kind of a whimper in how we ended trade on friday. retail sales numbers we are looking at friday morning coming in and missing estimates for the most part, so we will get more data this week that will include numbers on the housing market that will lead to more clues whether or not the big consumer demand we have seen in the u.s. driving the u.s. markets, whether that is peering out or not. on friday we close down, the dow was down 20 points, the s&p lower. the nasdaq composite pretty much unchanged on friday. sort of a mixed, mixed session. u.s. is in, and the this relentless phase of being range bound. againatility, falling heard the 90, 93 lows. is ....
challenge to washington and seoul, korea. we have the world covered here on daybreak asia. we will be live in beijing for china s plans for a new silk road. in new york, all the details of the global hack attack. he careful as you turn your computers on. liveis daybreak asia from bloomberg s u.s. and asian headquarters. it sounds really ominous. it is just after 7:00 p.m. , those is a big story hospitals and government facilities being attacked, but all eyes will be on the bill and road forum, $78 billion in infrastructure spending pledged at the time we are a focus on data, retail sales data out of china. when it comes to the u.s., , theng seems to move much s&p 500 2400 for the past couple of weeks. china,a big project from how will the u.s. and the rest of the world react. earthquake-layy quality? we will examine that later in the program. we seem pretty stuck here. the retail sales numbers on friday did not eliminate anymore on where consumers in the market are ....
next up is nato, an organization he attacked during the campaign. we have world coverage here on daybreak asia, we keep an eye on vienna. betty: opec is meeting there. continuing fallout from the trump administration budget and what the cbo calculated on a health care bill. this is daybreak asia, live from our new york and asia headquarters. i am new york i am in new york, it is just after 7:00 p.m. yvonne: i am yvonne man. it threw us off guard. everyone raising rates. perhaps that means a june. by another word, prudent. caution from the fed about when we could come out of this. betty: you have to look at the data and not blame the fed for giving mixed signals. data itself is showing mixed signals in a consumer confidence, consumer spending, diverging. you have a job market so hot in the u.s., but then inflation is so not hot. what is going on? you cannot blame the fed for putting their feet in both areas right now. in any case, market investors really parse thos ....
the company s cfo told this show sterling s weakness in the wake of brexit was hurting fares. sterling has weakened quite significantly. that s having an impact on the fares. the draghi put weighs on on the euro as the currency loses ground against the dollar after the central bank boss says stimulus measures need to stay. an extraordinary amount of monetary policy support, including through our forward guidance, is still necessary for the present level of underutilized resources to be reabsorbed. good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, glad you re with us once again here in the uk, especially after that long bank holiday weekend. some of you maybe were stranded at heathrow given the woes there. let s talk about european markets first. we re seeing the ftse 100 under pressure off by a half of a percent. the xetra dax eking out a modest gain of 7 or 8 points. cac 40 off by 0.6%. ftse mib extending yesterday s declines off by a similar percentage. when it comes to s ....