Paying more than 1 billion australian to settle a Money Laundering allegation, the largest corporate find never levied in australia. Tiktok drama turns another page, owner bytedance asking a judge to halt the ban in america, Chinese State media slamming u. S. Dirty trip u. S. 30 tricks. We heard from larry kudlow in the last few minutes, downplaying expectations we will be getting any more fiscal stimulus through the pipeline, larry kudlow saying he doesnt think the u. S. Needs another stimulus package and that they will be doing targeted measures only and need to be smart about this measures. This comes after course of fed officials, including chair powell, saying there is a long way to go for the economic rebound, we heard from several others, all saying there is further need of more fiscal stimulus to do that heavy lifting. And that comes after congress ended its pursuit of a bipartisan spending bill and are now focused on replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme expected thisin
She prepares his new years address. Is set to be ghosn in lebanon. One source tells us he fled japan ahead of a trial and financial misconduct charges. Markets in asia are winding down for the year. Australias equity market closes early this new year. Sophie has a final session how is the final session of the year looking . Sophie some pressure coming through. The aussie share market off 1. 2 , trimming the yeartodate gain but still set for the best year since 2009. Eminis little changed. Nikkei futures in singapore off by 1 and the bloomberg dollar index extending declines for a fourth straight session as the greenback is set for the Fourth Annual drop since 2010. Let switch out the board to check in on what markets are closed this new years eve. Indonesia, the philippines, and china closing along with south korea and japan entering a sixday new year holiday. We will be waiting to see whether we have yen like we saw earlier this year. Paul. Paul thanks very much, sophie. Breaking news
President trump warns he will smash the turkish economy. Hong kong calms down after a long and difficult weekend. Leadership in beijing should meet protesters. Get you across some breaking news out of south korea right now. This is the current account balance for the month of august, and it is coming in, contacting on the july figure. Billion. In july, it was 6. 9 billion. We have seen rather disappointing export numbers out of south korea, but however, the current account remains in surplus after the chart, dipping into deficit back in may last year. It is trending a little down. The trade war is weighing on career. The current account balance for the month of august, 5. 265 william dollars. Chari. 5. 265 billion dollars. Shery the Trump Administration put 28 chinese entities on a new trade blacklist. The s p 500 was down. 5 in the regular session. Major indices ended in the red and they were fluctuating between gains throughout the session but we had energy and Consumer Staples leavi
First half. Is ticking asck london and brussels plan new talks. They can still block a new deal divorce. Kathleen breaking news on south korea Industrial Production. I was talking about whether or not the bank of korea might cut their key rate and a couple of hours. The pricing jump, up 2. 6 . Up more than forecast at 0. 5 . That is what was expected. In terms of the monthly number, lets move on to the yearoveryear number. Up 0. 6 . A big improvement over 2. 9 . That has been revised a little bit higher, 2. 6. Very good news for south korean Industrial Production, closely linked to manufacturing, closely linked to the trade war. We will get more details on that and get more on that later. Beijing for ato look at the asian markets. There has been a lot of volatility this month but it looks like on the last day, we are seeing cautious optimism. More green across the board. For the nikkei. Positive numbers out of korea so that will help bolster when the markets open, up almost 1 . 5 thise
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