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it s 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 8.30am in north korea, where pyongyang has fired an unidentified ballistic missile the first since mid september. south korean military officials say the missile flew east from a launch site near the capital, pyongyang. it reportedly travelled a distance of about 1000km before falling into the sea of japan. president trump told reporters the us can handle the situation and in tokyo, an emergency cabinet meeting will discuss the incident. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is in seoul in south korea. they have done it again? yes, rico hizon. as you said just now, this is the first test by the north korean since mid september, and it comes after this long porous in which people had started to wonder whether there was something significant in there was something significant in the fact that we had not had any missile test in such a long time. in the early hours of the morning, we gotan the early hours of the morning, we ....
1am in london and 9.30am in north korea, where pyongyang has fired an unidentified ballistic missile the first since mid september. south korean military officials say the missile flew east from a launch site near the capital, pyongyang. it reportedly travelled a distance of about 1000 kilometres before falling into the sea of japan. president trump told reporters the us can handle the situation and in tokyo, an emergency cabinet meeting will discuss the incident. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams is in the south korean capital seoul. this is the first test by the north korean since mid september, and it comes, you know, after this long pause in which people had started to wonder whether there was something significant in the fact that we had not had a missile test in such a long time. well, in the early hours of the morning, in the dead of night we got an emphatic answer. after two months without a test, north korea is back at the top of president trump s agend ....
what does that mean? hello and welcome to bloomberg daybreak: asia. i m haidi lun. betty: i am betty liu at the mobile headquarters in new york. we ve got one i clearly watching what is happening in the korean peninsula. in the meantime, we are watching what is happening here in tax reform and u.s. markets. it looks like tax or formal possibly passed by the end of the year and markets will move higher,. i want to pull up a chart that shows perhaps a little bit of a warning sign. it just shows you the valuation of snp stock versus the euro stoxx 600uro companies. you can see how the valuation so muchinues to widen, so that it has some investors saying even if stocks rally, maybe there is better value in other parts of the world, particularly europe. maybe it is europe s time to shine next year. haidi: absolutely. it is interesting, this idea of momentum and sentiment driven rally we have seen. haveore record highs we seen overnight as we get closer to closing out the y ....
publicly referred to the country s persecuted rohingya muslim minority by name. let s take a look at the open air service in the chaikasan sports ground. earlier the pope spoke with aung san suu kyi who has been criticised for failing to speak out against the treatment of the rohingya, many of whom are now living in refugee camps in bangladesh. the pope is it is spoken of the rights of ethnic groups to refuse to refer to the persecuted rohingya muslim minority by name. the pope said peace can only be achieved through justice and respect for human rights. our south east asia correspondentjonathan head is following the mass in yangon. this is the biggest mass of the 4 day tour. he made a keynote speech yesterday and met aung san suu kyi, he has also met the armed forces commander as well. given the political tone to this tour, this is the moment where it becomes pastoral and spiritual. he has done his classic tour around the crowd behind me in a popemobile, an electric go ....
keeping in contact, linkedin has big plans for asia. we are going to set the challengers and the rivals. we are heading into the end of the trading week here in asia, and we do have a really supportive lead from wall street as we had the dow passing 24,000. the s&p seeing its longest streak, monthly gains up by about a decade. we are going to get a potentially before christmas. we have over the last half hour or so had the announcement of suspension until 11:00 a.m. friday morning in washington. the key compromise has collapsed and is scrambling to salvage that. buoyancyeing the passed through to the asian session. couple of key numbers when it comes to the agenda today. japanese inflation edging slightly higher, but surging still half of that target. we saw south korean inflation falling more than expected. the other piece of data we are watching for his the pmi. the private manufacturing survey. this one versus the official reading which came in stronger than connecte ....