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This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Lets have a look at whats been going on. There has been a steeping of the yield curve going on, more flattening taking place. What we have is perhaps an economic slowdown in prospect. Lets have a look at this chart. It goes back to 1986 and it tracks whats going on in the white line into the two to 10 year yield spread. That is indicated by this axis here. Just over 60 basis points between the two of them. The green line is where gdp is. This is inverted. You can the lowest number of growth here, 4 contraction. What happens next is that the yield curve perhaps sees more flattening. We see growth has been improving of late. What happens in the future . We have a strong correlation between the two of them. One of the head scratchers in terms of what we been looking at this year. We had off to christmas break and volatility has been settling going lower, that if we can hold on to the moment in what ....
All right, this is a shock or block week. But thisa note that suggests that these markets are moving high. Becausehave good reason earnings have been so impressive so far, really big ones dominating the agenda this week. Ish, we are looking at crucial levels when it comes to stocks in hong kong. Rishaad absolutely, looking at what happened with these shares, these Chinese Companies trading in hong kong. We want to bring up gb tv 9440. Investors bid for these underperformers. This is a third of the companies on the hang seng. They are racking up fresh one year the biggest proportions says that 2014 stock bubble. We are seeing some of those cheap banks red hot. These fresh highs are being hit last week. That is what we had at the moment. H, in terms of the other things on the agenda, we have yellens swansong and watching what the fed does. We are just watching what happens as jay powell takes over. The pmi is expected to hold ste ....
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