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Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have ....
Am Kathleen Hays in york, welcome to daybreak asia, related stories this hour, monthly suggests the recovery is continuing. The Bloomberg Economic saying recovery above three point five percent. Nancy pelosi says a deadline for stainless steel well President Trump calls for a big spending package. Central bankers worn support will be needed for some time to come and new zealand stocks rise in the kiwi strengthens after the historic victory. Labor has the seats to govern alone, but she is considering a new coalition. Haidi taking a look at markets in asia we are setting up on a pretty cautious note when it comes to trading in the trading week here in asia, however we are looking ahead to Third Quarter gdp out of china with investors and traders came to see what th ....
Coronavirus cases continue to rise as the fallout cripples the Global Economy. China may be forced to abandon growth targets for the year. We are just getting some news crossing the bloomberg when it comes to expectations for summer earnings out of we are expecting a pretty down quarterly in terms of the impact for the asiapacific. We will be bringing those to you shortly but in the meantime, we have data out of south korea. Shery we are getting the current account numbers for south korea for the month of march. Current account surplus coming in at 6. 2 3,000,000,000 fine 6. 23 billion dollars. The current account surplus narrowing a little bit from the previous month of february. Also, the month of february being revised lower to 6. 4 billion. The goods trade balance coming in at 7 billion. The surplus was a little larger than the previous month. Given that we do have the coronavirus pandemic and april export numbers really takin ....
Session, not necessarily getting worse. We want to go to global exchange. We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to riyadh and london, to new delhi, washington and new york. We want to begin with the markets, the overarching story of that russian to safety. Lowestfalling to the since 2016. Joining me is bloombergs dani burger. Walk us through some of the big ones. Dani today is really a day of superlatives. 2016,the lowest since gold jumping to a 2013 hi. 2013 high. As evercore strategists put this, we are in a new phase of the coronavirus outbreak. That is going to give us this kneejerk, gut punch reaction in market. Credit default swaps in europe jumping the most in two years. When you look at both of those see thestoxx 600, you ftse made down, and europe has become the epicenter of the outbreak. That means markets are already very sensitive. These are high beta markets as they stand because of the economic weakness. A lot of wha ....