Lands to keep you cave rules aligned with the eu. In early is down trade. Is there more to come . We will talk about that with the mliv team. Wrangling over that u. S. To limit will continue today. The next big risk from the u. S. We are less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. Lets take a look at futures. They are deep in the red. You can see here the percent missed price for dax Index Futures is down more than 1 . Indications that we have a weak open in frankfurt not quite as half percent. You can see the middle range if 50. Look at the euro stoxx investors continue to buy treasuries in the u. S. Pushing the yield down, falling five or six basis points in the last couple of days. Were looking at 2. 33 . Now down seven basis points over the last three days. Guy 28 minutes to go until the start of european trading. Lets take a look at what asian trading delivered overnight. Japan down and korea continuing to be hit and hit hard, down 1. 42 . So my conductor stock
Planning to withhold billions in payments if that you does not play ball on trade. Itare waiting for the latest is bce earnings under the outgoing ceo. We will bring you the numbers and analysis, this hour. Ael signs a gas as port export deal with egypt. It is 8 00 a. M. Across the emirates and 4 00 a. M. In london. I am yousef gamal eldin in dubai. China has yet to come back online, but again, asian equities taking their cues from what was a slightly weaker lets run you through the Key Highlights in these markets. Gmm is the key function on your bloomberg. Linesleins being de being led by the japanese nikkei. Profittaking hitting electronics and automakers specifically and weakness coming through here. The philippines and south korea. Were looking at a backdrop here of a slightly stronger u. S. Dollar playing out in the Foreign Exchange column, the. 2 5 index short of higher. A bit of downward pressure on the norwegian krone. 1 at 62. 29 per barrel. Opecore comments from the secretary
Support for limited gunshots in the wake of the Florida School massacre. Ramy good morning to you and to all watching around the world. Markets, close because of the president s day holiday. Not much moving except the dixie. It has been moving slightly to the upside. Lot of investors have been expecting this to fall farther down. The last time it hit that mark was three years ago. To ask be looking ahead some forex analysts what they expect in terms of that trend looking ahead. The interester rate differentials matter when it comes to the dollar. Really thin volumes. Liquidity in shortage given u. S. Markets are closed. We are seeing some markets come back after the Chinese New Year holiday. Hong kong still and holiday mode. We are seeing new zealand stocks flat, currency as well. Big earnings day for australia. We are looking ahead to the hp earnings. Bhp. To the earnings season not too shabby so far. The aussie he much trading water ahead of rba minutes this morning. The aussie 10 ye
Yours biggest bank. Europes biggest bank. Europes biggest bank, hsbc, has reported a big jump in profits for last year. But its mainly because its been able to shake off the huge costs the company has faced in restructuring after a string of problems. It means there will be a strong base to build on when the new chief executive, john flint, takes the reigns from stuart guillver on wednesday. The numbers show that hsbc made a pre tax profit of 17. 2 billion for the calendar year of 2017. Thats up a massive 1a1 on the 7. 1 billion in made the year before. However, its still below expectations. The bank says adjusted pre tax profit of 21 billion gives a better idea of how the business is performing. It excludes one off items and Foreign Exchange losses and was up 11 on a year ago. The banks desire to focus more on asia, including expanding in china, is paying off too with 75 of profits now coming from the region. But despite these good numbers, the bank continues to have problems with the
25 . That is not the big number. It is boosting its dividend by a whopping 38 . The market wanted more. It is a big week for a bonds as treasuries reopen. Will investors drive the 10 year through 3 . Good morning. Lets talk about these markets and get into the details of what you need to know. The fair value london fairly flat. Interesting to see how hsbc opens. It will be interesting to see how bhp opens. Bhp really flat. Hsbc trading lower. That is the picture. That is the set up into europe. Lets take a look that dmx talk about asian trade is going. Hong kong dominated by what happened with hsbc. Korea, indonesia trading softer. Europe generally a little bit softer. The dollar is trading higher. That is something to Pay Attention to. This is what some of the asian currencies are doing right now. Interesting. Is iron ore is where the weakness lay in the numbers. Copper is well bid. You got some of the Agricultural Prices coming back. They have been on a great run. We are going to tal