This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. Global chief economist. A lot of the focus is on the next, the mastercard trade war. A lot of the focus is on data executive vice chair on out. We see pound. Diversity and her thoughts on we are of course watching that because we are one month exactly the apple card gender bias issue. From the early election, this is bloomberg. December 12, and the u. K. After the brexit party said they will not expand conservative seats. 1. 93. 0 year yield at coming up, we will be speaking to musabbeh al kaabi, the chairman of Mubadala Petroleum at 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. That is manus cranny bringing that live. Lets kick off the show with the latest from hong kong. Rn that the city is on the brink of total breakdown as protesters rocked the citys financial district to a standstill. The chaos follows a flareup in violence after the first fatality linked to the protests. Is it different from yesterday . Is the mo
Cost be index with the south reaching its july highs against the u. S. Dollar. Lets have a look at where we are in chinese markets. We will talk about blockchain a little later. Hang seng index flirting with 27,000. Dollar china, sterling on the u. S. Treasuries. He had the doj coming in shortly after. The fed widely expected to cut rates. Trick or treat is how bank of America Merrill lynch is calling that. Among other things topping our minds as we get underway this friday. Su keenan is waiting for us in new york with an update of your first word news. Su President Trump is calling on the world to continue fighting Islamic State. This, after announcing its leader is dead following a u. S. Military raid in northwest syria. Becomes thebaghdadi highest ranking terrorist leader killed or captured since obama trump said the u. S. Is now targeting his likely successor. He is a sick and depraved man. And now he is gone. Was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a
Stuck in a slump. The winning streak comes to an end. More pain from protests in hong kong. Retail sales and Hotel Occupancy tumbled more than 40 . Check lets get a quick of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures gaining a quarter percent but this of course after we see all saw the s p 500 fall the most in a month. Every session was in the red. Week manufacturing number this morning. Industrials let the declines, not to mention we had banks under pressure as was our rates move lower towards the 1. 6 for the 10 year yield. Volatility was also pronounced. We saw the vix headed towards the 20 level. It is known for price swings. It could be one of the most volatile months of the year. Lets see how things are shaping up for asia. Selina asian stocks look to be pressured by the weak manufacturing data after the u. S. Reported which of course follows very weak did any Manufacturing Sector we have seen across europe as well as in china, japan and south korea. Take a look at the futures. Loo
Good afternoon from asia. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Stoxx 600 down. We are expecting more choppy trading on the back of the testimony this week from jay powell. Prospects after we had conflicting signals from the world economy. 1. 12. Ollar coming up, paul the fx calls all the fx calls with david bloom. Tensions between japan and south korea are threatening to wallop much now depends on whether shinzo abe and moon jaein can work out a compromise. A cycle of measures and countermeasures would not be ideal for both countries but if south Korean Companies begin experiencing actual damage, the government would have no choice but to respond as necessary. I hope it does not come to that and we urge japan to withdraw its measures. Greece primenew minister has a new finance minister. One of the first tasks will be to renegotiate. Epstein being held at a Correctional Center in new york as he awaits a bail hearing on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. The charges include sex acts 14,
U. S. China trade war. The yen currently, 107. 85. A little flat at the moment. One of the strongest performers in asia over the past three months. Hong kong dollar also one to watch. 7. 7 a. Much flat. 778. You much flat. Bond yields lower. Yields in asia pretty much tracking the u. S. Indonesia, the philippines attracting investors. When it comes to commodities, lets take a look at where gold is. Wti currently down 1 . I want to show you this chart. All of the twists. We are talking about yields. Chinese bonds, seeing much a search a surge. First time default in june compared to just one back in may. To put that in perspective, we started to see defaults in 2016 and still low compared to developed markets like the u. S. You are looking at india. Big day. The focus could switch to india quite quickly. It is budget day. Modisst after narendra election win. We saw the market move yesterday after we saw that economic survey. We also heard from the government advisor saying they will stic