Exception of the new zealand dollar. We see the japanese yen weakening a bit and the renminbi was in focus. To 1714. Nching closer 711 93 for your onshore. Bonds are mixed across the board. Australian 10 we are watching it was the rba announced not a smaller amount than expected. Seeing a little bit of a selloff when it comes to your aussie bones. Up eight basis points. Areomes to brent, we getting a little bit of a breather. Higher. A half percent we are hovering around 21 for wti. There is optimism President Trump is going to be meeting. Ith oil execs that is leading to some of the oil bulls to come back out again. Lets get the first word news. U. S. Intelligence is accusing china of concealing the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak. Underreporting total cases and deaths. We are told the public statements about the infection have been intentionally incomplete and the numbers are fake. Beijing has changed its reporting of people and added hundred 30 extra cases in the first day.
Shrinks, but it doesnt set the u. K. Up for a good spot Going Forward. We are seeing the relationship between fiscal and Monetary Policy really evolve the u. K. We will break that down over the next few hours. You are seeing bond markets bid across the board, as we are koff develop. We want to kick it off with Michael Mckee. Theld central bank mike,entral banks if i say mmt, am i wrong . Anyway. Yeah, [laughter] its confusing, though, what is going on with the economic philosophy called mmt. Yes, it is unlimited cash in unlimited amounts for unlimited periods of time until we get through this. Youre still going to work your tail off today before we get to 4 00 p. M. Lets start in london come over the bank of england is going to finance Government Spending for the time being by lending money directly to the treasury. It is called the ways and means facility, a shortterm credit the last used during great financial crisis. Government and the bank say any borrowing will be repaid by the en
Ahead of his News Conference there later today. And samsung shares rise as the Company Beats on Quarterly Earnings. Memory chip prices finally begin to climb out of a persistent downturn. It is 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates, 12 00 midday in hong kong. This is bloomberg daybreak middle east. Im tracy alloway. The middle east never has a shortage of news that this morning with iran announcing a seriesf missile strikes on u. S. Bases in iraq, the First Response to the killing of general soleimani, as i mentioned. Reporters are on standby to walk us through the latest developments. What are we seeing in terms of the reaction from the u. S. . So far, u. S. Reaction has been muted. The u. S. Did not release numbers for casualties, and basically, they are still assessing. President trump says all is well. Basically saying so far all is good. Meantime, meanwhile, we are looking at a response from the iranians where the foreign minister kind of hinted there might be actually a deescalation bec
Fires rockets at u. S. Military base its. Tehran says it doesnt want war. Boeing737 jet crashes in a ron shortly after takeoff due to stateat stadia media describes as technical issues. All people on board were killed. Carlos ghosn says nissan used him as a scapegoat to block further integration with renault. He speaks out in a press Conference Today in beirut. We are also getting german factory orders in the economic data. It does not look good. November factory orders dropped 6. 5 yearoveryear. November manufacturing orders dropped 1. 3 month over month. That we haverders been waiting for here in germany just dont look good. You want to pull that up on your bloomberg, type ego go. Pull down on the german flag. The picture is fairly dire. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Before the factory ders came through, they were bad enough. Now you can see, dax futures are down even more. 1 . More than double the losses that we see on ftse futures. In term
Some have moderated a little. We trade at 68 59. Gold went above 1600 an ounce. We come off the high a ten year yield did get to a 170 breaking a trend line that weve been in since september but now down to two basis points on a 180 handle on that. Looking at dollar yen though that comes off a little bit. Unchanged there on that currency pay. European equities in the red but a reasonably muted move also what were seeing in u. S. Future. One point we saw it drop as much as 1. 7 but we recouped ome of those losses. This morning we begin with the retaliation from iran against the u. S. For the killing of its top general. The nation firing a series of missiles at Iraqi Air Bases Housing u. S. Troops. The escalation coming hours after President Trump says the u. S. Was totally prepared for an attack. Irans foreign minister saying tehrans is retaliation. It adds it isnt looking for war but will defend itself. Also this morning shortly after takeoff a boeing 737 bound for ukraine crashing in