Saying america is winning the trade with china but the u. S. Deficit is set to balloon to 1 trillion. Hong kong protesters mark one month since gang attacks on the subway. Wantswants beijing companies to toe the line. Shery lets get a quick check of the market close in the u. S. Stocks are higher but after paring back some of those earlier gains, every sector in the s p 500 was in the green. We had Consumer Discretionary and tech leading the way. Not to mention we had numbers out of retailers like lowes. We also had them from target. That helped with investor confidence. We had home depot showing signs that the second half would be strong. We had seen that rally. This is adding to the sentiment. At the same time, we have the fomc minutes. After that, the twoyear treasury yield rallying. And we have eight the yield curve and we have the yield curve inverting. S p active futures up. 2 . Lets see how we set up in asia. Sophie asian stocks brushing off the midweek fumble. Qantas and calls