Shery ahn thousands rally against Police Actions in hong kong. The unrest came up in toxic think china and japan in beijing. A study markets not kicking off trading in the early session. Sophie stocks stay below 6800. Not going anywhere fast given the holiday week. After a three dated decline. As investors consider the earnings trajectory going into 2020. Futures are pointing to gains in tokyo and seoul, adding less inn 1 10 of 1 , wellington. Switching out the board. The aussie dollar set to snap a four day gain. 1. 30ound trading below after being the worst performer ing itsht after cappting i longest lower run on no deal brexit. Yen barely budging as it is set to end the year, defined stronger forecasts. Bojs Meeting Minutes due later this morning. Paul . Paul lets get the first word news with haslinda amin. Slinda thousands rallied in hong kong monday evening against Police Actions to see moneys raised by a crowdfunding group. Police arrested four people over suspicions of money la
Investors are not so sure. A Virtual Reality platform picked up for oculus. We are live in san francisco. Lets get to sophie forecheck on markets. Sophie aussie shares are unchanged after a threeday gain. Kiwi shares building on gains after topping 11,000 on tuesday. Nikkei and cost be futures kospi are lower. Slide despite the enthusiasm we saw for alibaba shares, which closed about its issuance price. Lets check on housing bonds, which are gaining ground after the rba governor the move tracking treasuries. Aussie yields falling 35 basis points across the curve. The three years left below the rba cash rate. A bond rally expected to push the 10 year to 50 basis points with unconventional easing expected in the second half as the australian economy slows. The kiwi holding its threeday gain. This morning, we heard from the rb governor. Mentioned rbnzso is working with westpac after the findings in australia. Paul thanks very much. Lets check in with first word news. Chinaly indicators sh
This is the position we find ourselves in. Looking at futures contracts for the s p, those are indicating just about a flat picture. We did have records once again for the major benchmark indices on wall street that should have been given is more of an uplift to the tail end. It is just up fractionally in the msci all country world index , which means we are just about 1 away from a record when it comes to global stocks. This is what we have just at the moment. Just appreciating just a little bit despite the horrible production. The fact that the rba is paused for now with regard to Interest Rates and a ruling out a move toward quantitative easing for the time being, just playing in the yield, just in three basis points. Ok. With that in mind, lets find out what else is happening. Lets get to the first word news. Thank you. We are going to start with the white house. A budget official in the Trump Administration says he warned his superiors that a hold on security aid for ukraine could
Welcome to daybreak europe. Investments slowed in china and gdp hit 6 . That is below the forecast of 6. 1 . Industrialy Strong Production data was a bright spot, but the chinese economy is likely to lose momentum. In terms of market momentum, we move to the downside on the shanghai composite. It has been a mixed picture overall. We will dig into the trade war. We saw gains on the s p 500 yesterday in the u. S. Euro stoxx 50 futures into the red. The 10 year yield tips to a 174 handle. The bloomberg dollar index near a july low. Prices givingairy the kiwi dollar a lift. The worst performer, the pound. Pulling back from a five month high. Yesterday, risk reversals. Volatility still near that 2016 hi, talking about one week volatility on cable. 12849. Back to the brexit story. After frantic negotiations just days from a deadline, Boris Johnson has reached a brexit deal. This is how he described it. This is a great deal for our country, i also believe it is a very good deal for our friend
For the imf meetings but lets get a check on the markets as investors digested the data out of china earnings will be coming through in europe. We struggle a little bit and stoxx 600. Cable is coming off a fivemonth high. A lot of concern going into this weekend and what parliament will vote on in terms of the brexit deal. We are talking about potential rate hikes. Coming up, we hear from the Vice President of the european atmission that 1130 time 11 30 a. M. London time. And still to come, we speak to bank of England Governor Mark carney at 5 30 p. M. London time. Definitely not want to miss. All of those conversations from the Imf World Bank annual meeting. Lets get first word news in new york. We begin with the ceasefire in syria. The u. S. And turkey agreeing to a break in hostilities to allow kurdish fighters to withdraw. Once the ceasefire takes affect them a donald will remove this weeks sanctions, but u. S. Senators from both sides say the deal does not go far enough. Reluctant