Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. If you are getting ready to kick off new years eve celebrations, were not seeing a lot of that in risk assets today. Quite a number of markets, bear in mind, are close today, including japan. We dont have the cash treasury trade either. A little bit of red on the screen. U. S. Futures perhaps pointing to a stronger open. A stellar year for Global Equities in general, the best year since 2009 the best year since. Fx, a fourth down day for the bloomberg dollar index, all the g10 currencies gaining against the greenback. Dollaryen, seeing yen strength at 108. 69. Euro near a 12month high. Butslipping a little today oil is heading for its best year since 2016. In china, a little optimism, even though it may not lift the market. The gauge of chinas Manufacturing Sector held steady in december, evidence the worlds secondlargest economy is stabilizing. The outlook for new export orders expanded for the First Time Since may 2018. On the trade front, deleting w
To the country than left in the year to june. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. 0il cartel opec 0il cartel 0pec extends its supply cut arrangements. We find out what this means for oil prices. And World Leaders focus on a major challenge to the global economy, getting more women into the workforce. Good morning, asia, hello, world. It is a friday. A weekend just ride around the corner. Glad you could join us for another exciting addition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Lets start off with oil, and opec hizon. Lets start off with oil, and 0pec has wrapped up its meeting in vienna. Saudi arabias Energy Minister told members of the press they have finally hammered out a deal. The decision has been unanimous. It is a solid decision, that i think many of you have been urging us to make, which is to roll over and extent the deal through december 2018. Oil prices remaining steady after the news of the announcement. 0pec members say the decision to keep
It was like five sessions between 25,000 and the zeseventh trading sessio. From january 4th to yesterday is when we saw the 1,000 point move in the dow oil breaking, which is a weird Reason Energy stocks came down as a result just the idea lets hold off for a second nevertheless, with all of that, the s p 500 still remains on pace for its biggest monthly gains since march of 2016. The nasdaq is still on its biggest monthly gain since july of 2016. Look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point back to this morning sorry, flipflop back to this morning, you are look at double digit gains or triple digit gains once again for the dow. This comes after last night the nikkei down by a third of a percentage point hang seng and shanghai stocks both ended higher bay quarter percentage point in europe, where you see the early trading this morning, you will see at this hour theres a bit of weakness. Dax is down by 0. 2 . Ftse down about
Targeted u. S. Supported groups fighting government forces. Saying the cia has been secretly training and arming the group since 2013. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says his nation has the same targets as the u. S. Led coalition forces. We are going to fight isil and other terrorist groups. This is the same information which the americans are taking, the representatives of the Coalition Command have always been saying that their targets are isil and other terrorist groups. This is basically our position as well. Lavrov added russia does not consider the Free Syrian Army to be a terrorist group. The Antigovernment Group is backed by the united states. Russia said it carried out its second day of air strikes on thursday. Russias Defense Ministry released new video of the attacks. Syrian Opposition Forces are deannouncing the russian air strikes for killing civilians. A spokesperson with russias Defense Ministry said their targets are based on confirmed intelligence to avoid harm