Unchanged policy. Coming back from the typhoon slower by 116 points. We are talking about hsbc, one of the laggards here, missing out. The largecaps under pressure, 4819 right now. We are looking. When it comes to dollar dynamics, we did see a stronger dollar, which led to a hit. 379 right. 7 now. The china 10 year yield, we just got the pricing on the dollar bonds. Gold taking a retreat. Brent crude Holding Around 42. Tom lets bring you back to the top story in this region. Xi jinping will bring a major policy address later, in the next 20 to 30 minutes or so. Across the border in shenzhen, to talk about an integrated tech corridor to rival silicon valley. Stephen engle is following the story and joins us from hong kong. Steve, what are you looking for in this speech . Stephen i am looking for a better tagline. They are calling this a chinese socialist pilot zone with chinese characteristics. I think the greater bay is the grander scheme. And xily china wants to jinping with a trip so
Closer to the mainland. Wrapping off the iphone 12. It is bigger, pricier, and supports 5g. It could trigger a wave of growth. Lets get a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures under pressure at the open. This after u. S. Stocks retreated from sixweek highs during the regular session. Prospects for us fiscal for a fiscal stimulus have remained stalled and we have mixed corporate views. The s p 500 lost 0. 06 , nine sectors were down. Financials leading the declines. We had a positive start for Bank Earnings but they went south of her investors took a look at reserve relief and Regulatory Risk. 0. 1aq composite, down percent, apple shares tumbling after the release of those latest iphones. Giving up some of the big gains we saw ahead of the event. Oil is under pressure, but still above the 40 per barrel level. It held onto gains in the new york session. This after data from china showed robust crude imports but we did get an executive director shuttered restart of output may
Out his vision to drive new Economic Growth and draw hong kong closer to the mainland. Offapple takes the wraps the iphone 12. And pricey. Analysts say it could trigger a new wave of sales. Haidi all right, lets take a look at how we are setting up going into trading, and australia, weakness as expected with equity futures. About 1 10 of 1 . Reasonablethere were earnings out from banks, putting an end to the stalemate and a contention over another round of stimulus with the white house and democrats in disarray over negotiations. The aussie dollar also trading 158, and we heard from the australian treasurer speaking earlier, commenting on the tensions with china, saying the relationship has been challenging but that it is vastly important and a relationship of mutual benefit. We will continue to watch that and others, as well, given the concerns about the import ban when it comes to australian coal into china. Kiwi stocks, modest to the upside. Going from strength to strength. Of cours
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
Asiapacific benchmark. Jakarta coming online. Of 1 . F 6 10 u. S. Futures are flat and so are nifty futures. At thatbe looking downgrade of indias outlook to negative. The country at risk of falling into junk status. When it comes to some of these markets, singapore reopening phase two today. The peak p, is the biggest loser on the board. Elevated. Ocks are we are expecting that we could see some action from the pboc in the next coming days. Could we see it in the form of a triple are cut . The chinese bond market has stalled a bit. We are still seeing yields go lower today. Take a look at currencies first. The dollar set for a second week of gains right now. We are watching the pound really closely. The bank of england expanded by qe program. Renminbi is steady around 708. The rupiah, we are focusing on that. B. I. Cut rates yesterday. More easing to come. Trend is steepening getting tired right now. Businesses have fears of a second wave. U. S. 10 year is down to 70 basis points righ