Asia Midday Update. A Crushing Win UK Conservatives

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UK Election Labour's Corbyn concedes, Liberal's Swinson loses her seat, SNP massive gains North o...

Markets pause ahead of FOMC

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  Equities edge lower Activity in Asia was muted during this morning’s session, with no new dev...

Asia Enters the Holding Pattern This Morning

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Financial markets are suffering from trade fatigue today. Crammed into economy, entering the holdi...

Asia Morning: Asia Enters the Holding Pattern

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Prepared by Jeff Halley, Senior Market Analyst   It's one of those dreaded announcements that...

Risk appetite stalls after China trade data

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  Exports contract for a fourth month Data released at the weekend showed China’s exports fell ...

Asia Morning: It’s The Safety Dance

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Asia markets have opened with a cautiously optimistic tone this morning, following a similarly cauti...

Asia Morning Session: Global Markets Return To Their Happy Place

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I did ponder yesterday, whether President Trump's trade comments Tuesday on a trade agreement not ar...

Aussie dips as exports slump

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  Australia exports down 5% Australia’s trade surplus narrowed to A$4.5 billion in October, a l...

Aussie drops as growth slows

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  Q3 GDP growth below forecast The Australian economy expanded 0.4% in the third quarter on a qua...

Barbs Fly At North Atlantic Tariff Organisation

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Prepared by Jeff Halley, Senior Market Analyst   President Trump's comments that a trade deal...

Asia Morning Session: Tariff Man Returns!

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President Trump jets into London today for a NATO meeting, and I wouldn't be surprised if he emerges...

China data give risk a boost

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  Manufacturing PMI above 50 Data released at the weekend has given markets at boost at the start...

Asia Morning: It’s Just Another Cyber Monday

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  Prepared by Jeff Halley, Senior Market Analyst   The reports were inconclusive about th...

Nothing left for Asia to chew on

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  The aftermath of yesterday’s US Thanksgiving holiday meant that Asia was left searching for ...

Asia’s Morning: Feasting On Leftovers

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The US was closed overnight for the Thanksgiving holiday; meaning markets were effectively left with...

“It’s You Guv” Latest Poll Tells Boris

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The latest YouGov MRP poll released this morning in Asia, suggests that the Conservatives are on tra...

Asia Morning Session: China’s Industrial Profits Disappoint

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China's Industrial Profits disappointed this morning, falling 2.90% YoY following an equally disappo...

Close, closer…….closest?

Posted by Andrew Nov 26, 2019 Share 0

  Tight-ranged It was a lackluster morning session in Asia today as the markets wait for the next...

Hong Kong stocks surge after peaceful weekend elections

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  Pro-democracy candidates do well Following heightened doubts last week that Sunday’s district...

Hong Kong now a feature in trade negotiations?

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  Hong Kong Bill passed by Congress The US Senate and House have both passed the Hong Kong Human ...