Shanghai composite, 3 10 of an percent of the upside. Lets have a look at what is going on currency wise. This is the dollar index. Not that much changed. Bitcoin. Oves is down nearly 2 at the moment. [indiscernible] thetocurrency left to 18,000 level. Citigroup causing a stir with a 300,000 plus estimate with regards to bitcoin. U. S. Dollar index pretty much unchanged. Stasis as weoil in wait to see what is happening with some of these internal squabbles taking place with members of opec, mainly the uae. Mitchell with the first word headlines. Early south koreas trade data shows exports extending their recovery. The yearose 11 from earlier. South korea shipments received a boost from china and the u. S. Cap exports were up almost 22 . Singapore sees at the economy expanding by between four and 6 next year as it rebounds from the virus. Thirdquarter gdp shrunk by 5. 8 on the year and the estimate for contraction was revised to six to 6. 5 . The decline for the Third Quarter compared t
Restrictions on the u. K. Looks to repair some of the economic damage in todays Spending Review. Words ofs back, the president elect joe biden as he introduces his Foreign Policy team. Janet yellen faces a tricky start, as Steven Mnuchin puts funding beyond her reach. Good morning. 6 00 a. M. In london, 10 00 a. M. Across the emirates. A jampacked show for you, including emirates president tim clark. He spoke to manus cranny about a host of issues in the travel sector. Also, likely an appearance from manus himself. What a day it was and a 24 hours it was, as chris weston put it, a nirvana has dissented over the scended over the market. Dow jones topping 30,000 for the first time. S p 500 index, we do have closing at an alltime high. We are losing a bit of momentum. Flat across the asian market and flat across u. S. Equity futures. We are seeing a steepening of the yield curve, not at the highs we saw recently, but we are seeing it steepening. Jp morgan this morning also saying 10 year
The chinext is lackluster here. Indonesia coming online. The futures are not going anywhere in singapore today. We are watching that dollars story once again. The dollar weaker here. We did see the pound falling after the bop made the clearest signal yet that it may be considering negative Interest Rates. 104. 81 for the dollaryen. Take a look at crude. You better not be challenging us. You are watching a bit of a bid for iron ore. Global coronavirus cases have no topped 30 million with more than 940,000 deaths. Reported the most cases since the lockdown in may. There were more than 10,000 new infections. The northeast of england is introducing tough new restrictions. The bank of england has given the clearest signal yet that it may consider cutting Interest Rates to below zero for the first time in its history. The policy is part will be a similar move shortly after. Here in the u. S. , the Federal Reserve has started the second round of wall street stress tests. Unprecedented restrai
Agree on a deal which could see a new company if approved by President Trump. Haidi and the race for a china facesvaccine, a deadline on the growing kovacs plan. Little pressure at the open. This as u. S. Stocks dropped the most in a week in the regular session. Sentiment being damaged by poor economic data. Jobless came just jobless claims fell less the s p 500 fell for a second consecutive session, but found some support after bouncing off its 50 day moving average. The nasdaq was down more than 1 . We see itk at oil flat at the moment, around 40 a barrel. This after climbing when saudi arabia express determination to stop oh plex opec plus members, posting its largest three day gain. Kong to see g to see how things are shaping up. We have futures pointing to a mixed start. The regional index set to rise for the first week in three. We are keeping and i on toshiba with a chip unit on course to raise 2. 9 billion in a share sale in sydney. We are watching a bid to get a stake in italy
Good morning thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Moscow is again urging berland to Exchange Information about the alleged poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexei intervallic adding it has nothing to hide as International Pressure mounts on russia over the case the us president of the trump though says that he hasnt yet seen any proof the point of the poisoning claims. Well i dont know exactly what happened i think its its tragic its terrible and shouldnt happen we havent had any proof yet but i will take a look there have been International Calls for transparency from russia in an investigation into what happened to alexina valmy the Russian Foreign minister sergei a lover of has said moscow has nothing to hide when it comes to mist in the fall me he says russia is still waiting though for requests for information to be answered. But its we have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide as soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded