Morning Bid: Optics and Oracles

By Marc Jones

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - By Marc Jones, Global Markets Correspondent

Investors' apical absorption contiguous is the delayed - and somewhat antithetic - U.S. user terms ostentation report, which volition beryllium an important marker for whether the Federal Reserve is apt to support cutting involvement rates adjacent year. Meanwhile, Wall Street volition beryllium watching the tech assemblage again aft the latest signs of bubble occupation owed to ​big spending AI plans astatine the likes of Oracle.

I’ll get into each the marketplace quality below.

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Today's Market Minute

* Oil and state ‌major BP has appointed Meg O'Neill, the headof Australia's Woodside Energy arsenic its adjacent CEO to pb itseffort to boost profits and refocus connected lipid and state aft adetour into renewables. * ROI Energy Columnist Ron Bousso argues that the surpriseappointment of O'Neill arsenic BP's archetypal outsider CEO offers thebruised $90 cardinal British lipid institution 3 wide strategicchoices for moving forward: build, bargain oregon beryllium bought. * In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientistshave built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: aprototype of a instrumentality susceptible of producing the cutting-edgesemiconductor chips that powerfulness artificial intelligence,smartphones and weapons cardinal to Western subject dominance,Reuters has learned. * Asia's imports of U.S. crude oil, ember and liquefiednatural state are connected way to diminution this twelvemonth contempt PresidentDonald Trump's efforts to ⁠boost shipments arsenic portion of his tradeand tariff policies, writes ROI Asia Commodities ‌Columnist ClydeRussell. * There is overmuch treatment successful U.S. economical circles around"R-star", the theoretical complaint of involvement that neither spursnor crimps economical activity. But Federal Reserve officialscould soon displacement their absorption to "U-star," argues ROI FinanceColumnist Jamie McGeever.

Optics and Oracles

The day's apical absorption is the delayed U.S. user terms ostentation study for November retired astatine 1330 GMT. It volition beryllium an important marker for ‍whether the Fed is apt to support cutting its involvement rates adjacent year, though this is not a mean CPI study by immoderate stretch.

As the authorities was successful shutdown mode the October information wasn’t collected, truthful determination won’t beryllium the accustomed monthly alteration fig that traders usually zoom successful on, meaning the absorption volition alternatively beryllium connected the year-on-year rates, and however those comparison to the erstwhile people successful September.