Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
Taliban to kill american soldiers. And koalas under threat of Human Behavior could kill off one of astronomy is best loved animals. Hong kong is marking the 23rd anniversary of the citys return to chinese rule just hours after a sweeping National Security law was imposed chief executive caroline described the passing of the law as the most Important Development since the handover small groups of demonstrators have gathered in the city to denounce the legislation they say to roads hong kongs freedoms and shatters its status as a Major International financial center. Well chinese legislators drafted hong kongs National Security law in secret without any input from the citys legislature and at record speed its details became known only after it was inducted the law will punish loosely defined crimes such as subversion secession and collusion with sentences of up to life imprisonment the law also means that anybody either people in hong kong or foreigners could face prosecution for offense
Lets have a look at what is going on with these markets. We would normally be looking at the nikkei, but tokyo is looking at the public holiday. There we go. Taiwan moving to the upside. Hang seng adding to some of the gains. Overall, we are seeing a mixed bag. Shanghai is lower. The asx 200 not having a good time. Lets have a look at the other Asset Classes which are perhaps on your radar here. Kicking things off with a look at gold, just down a fraction. Investors are sticking to their guns. We have seen it shifted to gold ever since the middle east tensions did come to the fore with the downing of that jet and the killing of general soleimani as well. 1556. S just at the moment 98. X crude, oil holding onto the biggest weekly drop we have seen since july. Easing tensions regarding whats going on in the middle east. On top of that, the pound is a little bit lower. There is the possibility of a rate cut. The bank of england policy maker showing that there are no signs of the economy i
Peoples republic and communist party rule. We are live from beijing and hong kong. Shery lets get you quick started on how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures gaining one quarter of a percent, this coming off the back of gains we saw on this u. S. Session with the s p 500 gaining. 5 . The s p 500 gaining ground for the Third Quarter in a row, managing to rebound in the month of september after the losses we saw in august. When it comes to todays session, we saw every sector in the green except for financials and energy. We have 10 year yields paring back some of the earlier gains to train around 1. 67 . Wti fell below 55 a barrel. Tech fueling the gains in this session as the Trump Administration partially refuted some of those reports that it may potentially target chinese capital. The nasdaq gained. 8 . We are looking ahead of the asian open with a couple of markets on holiday. Paul that is right. We do have new zealand trading, currently looking kind of flat right now in new zeal
Is fundamental to the government who is concerned about the economic fallout. Im Tom Mackenzie in chatham in square where china is celebrating 70 years of the peoples republic and communist party rule. Paul just want to get you to some breaking news out of south korea. We have Consumer Prices for the month of september. They are coming in weaker than expected. Cpi on year declining by 4 10 of 1 . Readingfollowing a 0 in august, which up until today, was the lowest reading in history. Now we have a new low. A contraction in cpi of 4 10 of 1 . That is the first drop on record. Auth korea is not facing deflation according to the finance ministry, which made comments moments after the release of these figures. We have oil prices weighing on the picture and south korea. The bank of korea has reduced its inflation forecast to 7 10 of 1 from 1. 1 . Well short of the 2 goal. This contraction in cpi two 4 10 of 1 sort of adding fuel to the idea that we might see the bank of korea cut ranks rate