Upper 106 level before u. S. Retail sales and trade talks are planned for the weekend. We are seeing dollar weakness in recent days. Gold futures at 1946. It is above 1900, a wild ride for the metal after surging 30 this year. We saw the plunge below 1900 tuesday. Gold is still an of the bestperforming commodities of 2020. 66. 22. 10 year yield at lets flip the page and look at where we are in terms of the chinese shares ahead of a slew of data for july on friday, including Industrial Production and retail sales. The csi 300 is in negative territory, down. 4 . The yuan is at 6. 93. The hang seng is getting some gains. Center, infront and negative territory right now even as it the highest estimate. Tencent also played down the Trump Administration as we check been. Ban wechat the kospi is up on a 52week high. Look at southeast asia, this is asias worst performer this year, correctly up. 5 . It may rise to between 6500 to 7000 this year, driven by pretty much the government stimulus pac
We will be asking if the company can find a way back. Sophie and economists say we may be entering a period of peak dovishness. Posse shares opening flat after following the most on wednesday. We are keeping an eye on a weak Earnings Report as well as Oil Companies with brent extending declines and opec not pushing for deeper supply cuts. The chairman spoke of caution in the short term with capex below 8 million u. S. Dollars for 2020 and 2021. Checking on the aussie dollar, treading water near a oneweek low while aussie bonds are gaining ground on a possible delay to a u. S. China trade pact being signed. Futures pointing lower after japanese shares ended wednesday flat amid signs of overheating. Breaking news crossing the bloomberg on google, google said to be mulling changes to political ad policy, this coming on the back of twitter saying it is voluntarily suspending political adverts on its platform. Facebook on the other hand really more embracing it. Google now said to be mullin
Dependent. Lets have a look at what is going on with some of the moving parts in some of these assets. The 10 year yield was going up to 2 , which could signal all sorts of things regarding the economy and the u. S. Economy. And expect through the fed to be moving for the time being. The japanese 10 year yield has been on a tear. Bonds have been following. The bond market coming back a little bit. Up to the zero level. This is the hang seng Property Index in lieu of the Property Price numbers we had out of china. Higher at the moment. About 6. 7 so far. Looking at the idr as it strengthens, we do get trade data that you give us a single how a signal how indonesia is bearing the winds of commerce. Lets go across the world and get over to new york. Su keenan is there. Start with hong kong, which faces a fifth week of disruption as protesters step up their campaign a the business district. The unrest is hitting the economy hard. J. P. Morgan chase and they caved a pacific are the latest t
Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading risk, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy, and the stability of the Global Financial system. I and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks development of this Digital Currency, libra, and digital wallet until congress can examine the issues associated with a Big Tech Company developing these Digital Products and take action. As i have examined faceboo
That the banksle were the focus point. They seem to miss in terms of overall trade. In terms of miss overall trade. The laststeven, over couple of days, it has been middling, hovering your record highs. When you look over the next few months, do you think we still have sort of enough of a catalyst year to kind of keep this momentum going, pushing equities higher, and how do you think that fits in with, i guess, regards to the earning picture earnings picture that we have . Is no i think that worry. A good deal of this has been momentum. Overall, we are not bearish. We think we have a record high level of eps in the United States this year, and, probably, we can go on to another one in 2020. The problem is it cannot be everything that everyone wants, which is a rapid gain in eps with ever rising asset prices, getting it altogether. Inflation low, profits high, markets high. Broadly speaking again, i do not think we have come to a point where we are just wildly irrational on equities pri