Pips. We are looking at the rest of asia doing this. 1 8kospi index down about of 1 . Some updatese, here on what happened yesterday. Military saying it is on high alert in that part of the world. Today,the top stories just a couple minutes ago, we did get confirmation out of the pboc, adding more funding to the system here. It is trying to guide the economy through a rough patch. A smaller chunk, 2. 95 . Jason. Us now is pleasure to have you. Good morning. Your top thoughts for today. What is top of mind for you . At chinas liquidity guess first the primary liquidity facility, but it does also add to the positive growth picture for china, especially on a relative basis. Covidast because the situation has been continuing in china. When you couple that with Strong Capital flows and improving current accounts balance, it doesnt mean the fundamentals are quite good at the moment. Note, and i guess on that many people say go long against the dollar. Your trade is the currency against the i
Within a difficult market. Whatews flow dominated by is happening between the u. S. And china on the tech front. Of we chat andds tiktok will be prohibited. The Commerce Department said the Chinese Communist party has demonstrated the means and motives to threaten National Security, Foreign Policy of the u. S. Joining us now is bill faries. Overall take on this, and a potential chinese reaction . Is trying to. Raise the pressure to get the parties to some kind of a deal here. They will basically allow tiktok tiktokhey are telling that will not be able to upgrade, do any servicing this sunday, and banning the use of chat in the United States. There are some carveouts, and i think that is why the u. S. Wants to find some agreements. Tiktok is not being banned officially until midnovember, november 12 is the key date. Involveds the parties some time to reach an agreement to address some of the National Security concerns that have been raised. Overall, i think it is probably more of a posi
Company ipo in a year, if approved by President Trump. Is this ride hailer. Eeking to shore up cash haidi lets look at how we are setting up for the final trading session of the week in asia. After a pretty lackluster session, we had u. S. Stocks passing some of those parsing some of those losses, still dropping for a second day but finding support after bouncing off the 50 Day Moving Average on the s p. S p futures seeing a little positivity on the u. S. Fridays session, about 0. 2 higher. Tax leading the client is apple, facebook and peppe microsoft are weighing on declines. We saw a Little Movement in treasuries as well. In asia, the nikkei 225 is seeing an upside, 0. 1 when it comes to futures trading in chicago at the moment. Dollar weakness yen strength will be an issue, the. We have the yen appreciated to the strongest level in six months across broad dollar weakness. The u. S. Dollar index falling for a fifth straight session. We are also keeping watch on the dollar and how it
The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j
An eye watering loss. Costsosses and rising mean bonuses are set to disappoint. We are seeing u. S. Futures flat. This, of course, after we had the regular session seeing record highs. At one point, topping the record reached in february before the pandemic. Every sector on the s p 500 was in the green. We have nikkei futures moving higher as we have the japanese yen under pressure. We have seen it fall against the u. S. Dollar for the past four sessions. Right now trading around the weakest in three weeks. In sydney, futures higher. We have the aussie dollar listed a little bit higher. We have a softer u. S. Dollar, not to mention higher commodity prices. We have kiwi stocks at the moment gaining ground after seeing the worst day in a month. This as we have rbnz expanding their qe program. Gains in the currency returns, commodity exports, unr holdings qnr holding steady. U. S. And chinese negotiators plan to discuss progress in the phase one trade deal. Pushing toset to be widen the a