Exchange. This is where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Frombeijing to beirut, istanbul to washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. We have chinese pmi numbers that beat expectations, a positive sign as the sectors improvement is crucial to stabilizing the chinese economy. Joining me on the telephone is beijing. s bureau chief how much encouragement should we take from these numbers . Reporter it was slightly higher than what economists expected. New orders also moved into expansion for the first time pointing toall signs that economic slowdown may be reaching a bottom. Looking into 20 20, we also have indications that Infrastructure Investment is going to increase, and hopefully some of that takes. Of course, if this socalled phase one trade deal with the u. S. Comes to pass, that will involve tariff rollbacks, which will also be a boost for exports. Positive signals here in china. Thank you so much. We go now to the
Japanese yen is a safe haven. I must say actually, the japanese yen is up than u. S. Dollar and is holding up. Oil is definitely on a buy. Wti, to give us a sense of the volume. Brent crude is saving four times its volume and w. T. I. Is trading six or seven times. The markets are definitely moving with this geopolitical news overnight. Its time for the Global Exchange from around the world. From london to istanbul to prints on, new jersey and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with tensions in the iddle east where one of irans most powerful general killed. The u. S. Active International Terrorism targeting and assassinating is extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation. The u. S. Bears responsibility for all consequences of its ogue ven chur churism. Mark, what is the reaction . Ive seen some demonstrations already in iran. Yes. There have been protests in iran which is the city where he was born. The key thing to remember abo
2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Trading. I am Karina Mitchell. Edging into the red after two days of gains gains. This is bloomberg. We had to the end of december. Nejra lets kick off the show with the u. S. And the year end it has been a good month. Melt up. Equities in europe and u. S. And in asia. It. Arie hordern has the dollar on a third day of decline. This has been a melt up but it a 10year yield study for the Asian Session but we edge up has been a stellar year for three basis points. Equity especially u. S. Equities you are seeing a little bit of but we are badly overbought. We could see this technical rest gauff of equities. Signal. Lets get to bloomberg first this is one of the things to watch for but for 20 20, we are word news. President donald trump is seeing a lot of calls come in facing criticism for ousting the seeing a lot of optimism. Allegedly whistleblower. Nejra thanks so much. Heres what our guests have been a lawyer who specializes in saying
Where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. From hong kong to beijing to london to washington our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Start right now with hong kong with the citys financial chief said the economys set to contract in fourth quarter. Jeff joins us from hong kong on the telephonement welcome. Give us an update where we are. And how the economys doing there. Jeff good morning to you. The economy is hoping to see some kind of stabilization in the coming weeks. But the damage has already been done in the third and fourth quarters this year. We have only just seen a relative easing in the protests. But we are a long way from having an all clear or any kind of resolution to the political standoff. That means that the tourists and the spending that are the core of this economy, they are not going to return soon. We may see stabilization but it will be lower levels. David thank you so much. Jeff black reporting from hong kon
The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this