Shery you are watching daybreak asia live from new york, wellington and hong kong. Annabelle australia has just come online. Haidi asian stocks are set to follow wall streets gains in an effort to contain the israel hamas conflict. Israels defense minister warns of a long war as Antony Blinken returns for further talks. World leaders arrive in beijing for the belt and road forum. Facing an uncertain future as the economy slumps. Annabelle we had the open of a sx starting the day. The focus is on currency because we are keeping an eye on the aussie and kiwi dollars. Near lows against the greenback even though we saw a softer dollar in the prior session. Weve got rba Meeting Minutes due out later and that well plus understand why the new governor elected to keep rates on hold in our first meeting as chair. We had new zealand inflation data for the Third Quarter that came in softer than expectations, so it boosts the case that they will keep rates on hold at the end of november. And cut i
The victims of the deadly amtrak crash in philadelphia. Amtrak will pay 265 million to settle all pending claims due to last years fatal derailment in port richmond. The train went off the tracks in 2014. Today they approved the settlement by the victims attorneys. They are all expected to receive their payments by next summer. Federal investigators determined that the train engineer was distracted and he learned of another train getting hit by a rock. Meanwhile, in northeast philadelphia a woman was shot to death behind an apartment complex. And police are still looking for her killer, the attack happened overnight on the 2600 block of welsh road. A second victim was shot at the same location and the surrounding neighborhood was littered with bullets. Annie mccormick is following the investigation and joins us from police headquarters. Reporter rick, neighbors there say that this is not something they are used to seeing in the apartment complex. At least a dozen shots were fired and i