Trading session in the u. S. Overnight. Hang seng will be the focus, down 121 point. Another choppy session after quite a comeback yesterday. Jakarta is muted right now. News they will be easing lockdowns in the capital despite the rising cases. Sydney leading the losses, down 1. 2 . Three in a row that have been strong, perhaps the pboc sending a message they will not use currency as a weapon. Onshore strengthened the most. Dollaryen, you are seeing that haven trade come back. As you said, the main market event over the next 24 hours is this presser by President Trump, he will announce u. S. Policy on china curbingijing passed freedoms in hong kong. His top advisers said china will be held accountable by the of ministration. Is it Wishful Thinking in the u. S. Administration to think maybe they can change chinas behavior and plans for hong kong . I think nothing is impossible, but this does seem extremely unlikely. If you look at all the actions beijing has taken, it is clear there ha
It seems to be working his magic when it comes to boosting sentiment on the markets. When it comes to the growing power, it is pretty good. s are talking about china manufacturing pmi numbers coming in at record lows. These are all falling into contraction territory. As heidi mentioned, the markets are ignoring all of this because of the latest hints we got the boj action. A check on the markets and how they are tracking with sarah. There is nothing like higher coordinated central bank stimulus. We have seen this dark shift in sentiment. We see the pacific Index Trading modestly higher. The nikkei 225 is higher after falling as much as 1. 5 . We see Mainland China stocks leading gains. This is of more than 1 after the beating we saw last week. Off. 3 . Re theme point, we saw training back in positive territory. We are seeing some fluctuation. Gold is coming off of its highs and trading lower than 1600. At the same time, we see the japanese yen trading a little higher against the dollar
Big move. Key under performer is the small caps. Watching . Hat are you we had a small decline for major averages. For the s p 500, three down days. First time since early october. Lets put in context of the technical part we have been looking at for months. All, with the rsi going appropriately from overbought to oversold, then the range everyone was talking about when the range was breaking out, we have this multiweek melt up, but today, we have these three small down days. We may see the s p 500 move down toward its but 50 day moving average. Supporting a pause or consolidation. But there is an area here where it lifts up and down. We may be starting a new higher range. Speaking of higher range, a big day in oil markets. The most active west Texas Intermediate Oil contract, rising 2. 5 . Lateis the highest since september. Futures up 1 or more across the entire oil curve. The brightucers are spot today. Exxon mobil up 2. 5 . Xle, sp, you have , they arerry and mlp among the biggest
The upside. This is down to wall street, partly traders getting wages on that. The fed hiking rates. This whole talk of chinese stimulus is rekindling some of that risk sentiment. We are talking aboutas far as the bond market, we have a steady picture for treasuries. Weve got the 10 year yielding 4. 6 , where we were yesterday. Weve also got an open in thailand, having a look at bangkok and seeing what is at the start of the trading day. Its a by. 25 . Seeing a pushback taking place with the recent stimulus plan. 15 billion handout in thailand from the new prime minister. Some of the Rating Agency suggesting that if they dont get growth out of that, they may be looking at a downgrade. Its about digesting that, its continue to strengthen. It by nearly one barth in the last week. The fed speak, it is center stage. Speculating that the central bank will hurd well head to another pause as far as Interest Rates go. We are on track for a soft landing. Inflation has come down quite a bit. The
Annabelle we are counting down to asias major market opens. Haidi asian stocks face headwinds while treasury yields rise on the feds hawkish hold. Policymakers say one more hike this year and higher rates through 202025. A soft landing is a primary objective and i did not say otherwise. That is what we have been trying to achieve for all this time. Haidi also ahead, stellantis making a new offer to striking autoworkers even as Gms Mary Barra calls the unions demands too costly. Thailands new Prime Minister tells us he does not want to pick sides in the u. S. China rivalry. We hear from him exclusively. We have the hong kong military authority keeping its base rate unchanged at 5. 75 . Thats according to the de facto central bank page on bloomberg. We know that the official Interest Rates in hong kong move in lockstep with those of the fed as the local dollar is pegged to the u. S. Currency. When it comes to some of the concerns we have seen, hong kong traders are seeing a little more f