🌅 Morning Update | 06.05.2025
📈 Asia in the green
Markets rally on renewed 🇺🇸-🇨🇳 trade optimism:
🔹 Shanghai +0.8%, CSI 300 +0.9%
🔹 Hang Seng +0.5%
🔹 ASX 200 & Straits Times stay flat as traders eye today's Fed meeting.
🤝 U.S.-China talks back on track?
Treasury Sec. Bessent sees “substantial progress” ahead, calling current 145% tariffs “an embargo.” Trump claims China "wants a deal badly" 🇨🇳 insists: no talks unless tariffs go. Dialogue possible — but only with "sincerity."
🏦 Fed dilemma
Meeting kicks off today 📅 with officials torn between rate cuts and inflation control amid trade turmoil. No change expected, but divisions are growing inside the Fed.
💊 Pharma shake-up
Trump signs order to fast-track domestic drug production 🏭 and warns of new tariffs in 2 weeks — over $200B in imports at stake. 🇪🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 firms in the crosshairs.
⚖️ Google under fire
DOJ wants to break up Google's ad empire 🧨 — calling for AdX & DoubleClick sell-offs. Google hits back, calling it "overreach" that would harm the market.
🛢️ Oil bounces back
After a brutal drop 📉 Brent climbs 1.5% to $61.15, WTI to $58.02. But prices still down over 20% since April on OPEC+ moves and tariff fears.
📉 China’s services slow
April PMI dips to 50.7 😬 as U.S. tariffs bite.
🛍️ May Day spending +8% YoY, but per capita growth just +1.5%. 🎬 Cinema sales halve vs 2024.
💱 Currency moves
🟢 Yuan +0.6% (6-week high)
🛡️ HK buys $7.8B to defend peg
🔻 Taiwan dollar -3.7% after massive rally
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