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The lowest weve seen in 16 years. Brent crude below 45 a barrel. It is making headlines. Is it a rout or crisis . Remarkable hashtags. Mortgage meltdown and a great fall of china. Of us know what you think the stories. We will start with a look at commodities area shares, commodities, and the bloomberg commodities index the lowest since 1999. Lets head over to sydney. Paul allen with what is going on. What is bad for commodities is bad for australia, isnt it . Paul pretty much. It is a commodity currency. We are seeing data being hammered. Miners, rio tinto back in positive territory. The hp bhp is down a little. A fewe are seeing are savvy investors looking at this as a buying opportunity. The picture for commodities is a great one. A glut and growing glut. The bloomberg commodities index at a 22 year low. This is all thanks to china, the Worlds Largest consumer of grains and metals. No surprise, a slide. Copper, for example, supply exceeds demand by 151,000 tons. A glut in oil with i
Julie is just after 7 00 in new york. It was an interesting day in the united states. With President Trump being active. He is reversing moves by the obama administration, particularly on pipelines. And meeting with auto ceos. Yvonne it seems like what he has done in the last couple of days, put the green light on this rally. We have an interesting figure for japan trade with the export figure rising from 5 . Lets see the reaction right now. Reporter the better than expected export number four downber not necessarily in the nikkei. It looks like the rally in lifting looking fairly flat, even after this mornings data. We have the bok to speak later this morning. Lets look at what is going on on the afx 200. Miners up. Like a all, looking mixed picture. 1. 5 . Up this could be in impetus for japans exporters. Minerswe have the aussie out with some numbers. Sophie a nice lift for mining stocks. The worldshts, biggest miner here. This after it did announced betterthanexpected numbers in th
And, political scandals hitting korea. Just under 30 minutes to go before we get underway here in hong kong. Them markets. No trading in taiwan, we normally would have at the start of the session because it is the lunar nor year new year. The nasdaq, hitting the record highs. Regionrong start to the with stocks extending the global rally overnight. Over 1 with copper, aluminum and iron ore jumping there. It is green across asia, looking at this thing equity markets here. The nikkei up 1 here with a weaker yen. For, stellar numbers december. This is the picture. I want to mention quickly today. , falling. 6 one of the worst performers so far. Looking at what is going on with the cost, given that gdp figures , despite the economy growing at the slowest rate in over a year. Up a quarter of a percent, giving the rising the hp, and the like. A look at the aussie dollar. We did get australias fourthquarter inflation coming in lower than forecasted. After the announcement, we did get a drop.