It is hard to get wrapped around the numbers but what is eresting to me is the is the Market Reaction of what mr. Corona can do going forward. Jon then the yen is stronger. The bank of japan runs qe at a clip of around 18 billion every few months. That is how small pieces. It feels like a drop in the bucket. We are going to dig into these stories of the day. The details on this package entering a bear market with ebrahim rubari, ari ebrahim rahbari. Hong kong markets closed because of the storm. The real story was in japan and that was straight off the bat. 1. 4 . Ope, the dax down are the leading losers on the stocks in europe. We will debate that throughout the program. A 101 handle on the japanese yen, dollar yen trading at 77, the stronger yen session in the fx market capturing that risk for a moment. The commodity market is fascinating. We moved to 40 a barrel yesterday. Back, one full percentage point to 40. 61. A big shift in the bond market today. Core Government Bonds, yields
If you look at the yen, to see how the markets are focusing up on all this, the dollar yen looks like its sitting at 101. 52. The nikkei up by about 2 on this. A lot of options that the bank of japan had. This is not one of the four major ones people were anticipating. A bit of a head scratcher. Jim can make make sense of it later on. I was listening to Worldwide Exchange driving in. Its a little wonky. Just trying to fix tenyear bond yields, but probably all about the yen. I dont know what to make of it. Heres the thing. This is the wall street journal saying yesterday stocks moved up based on it. The dow edged up as investors awaited policy decisions. The bank of japan is the big the bank of japan, for the hard core investors, this is the game. I will say, jim can clear some of this up, by not easing further, by not luring Interest Rates one more time, by saying they wont buy more in bonds, that may give our Federal Reserve room in terms of going ahead and pushing rates higher. Its b
I am Francine Lacqua. Manus it comes in just below the number. 53. 7. The Market Survey was for 54 . This is the market Eurozone Services purchasing Managers Index. That is just a shade lower than we had anticipated. Was about 50 . It is still in expansion mode. It is the industrial prowess of germany we are looking for. It has been called into question after we had the vw scandal. We had concerns about china growing. That is why every single piece of data we had is so powerful. Now, glencore shares have sore this morning. We have reports that the commodities giant is talking to potential buyers. Rocked in hong kong and is up over 10 . The company says it is not aware for any reasons for the movement and chairs. The bloomberg chief energy and commodities responder. Up 70 at one stage. Glencore does not know of any reason why this would ramp u p like this. If you look to us 10 days of the Share Performance of glencore, lets not forget we are talking about a 5100 company. They rarely mov