he is a longtime columbia university professor and will succeed richard fisher, who stepped down in octoberal news 24 hours a day, powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries around the world. i'm yvonne man. this is bloomberg. sophie: i have a check on the markets and asian stocks are mixed. 107 andis holding at he was futures are pointing higher and in japan, the nikkei 225 is trading flat with electronic and banks weighing. afterrean won, rallying sustaining chief technical support. let's check out the aussi, slipping, along with the yuan. china, not doing much for risk-omn moves. tech and banking stocks, they are diving the most on the heng seng. chinese lenders are extending losses. the pboc, will raise the deposit rates, but leave lending rates as is. is slidingeuticals ersk cancer drugs rose. the kospi, downgraded. checking on the leaderboard. i want to highlight the casino operators, which are rising after ccip lifted the forecasts on the industry. china, the stop was raised to overweight by jpmorgan. raisingo have companies ground over reports that they are