Deal tesco hales a strong start to the year but uk sales slow in the latest quarter and a calmer day in hong kong after massive protests against the extradition bill turned violent forcing the closure of government offices while beijing looks to allay investor concerns about the unrest good morning its been a relatively strong start for the day across europe you can see the ftse is 0. 15 higher dax in germany trading 0. 40 higher in paris, the cac 40 is slightly above the flat line. In italy, the ftse mib trading about a quarter percent higher lets look at the sectors behind those numbers to see where the positive signs are coming from the healthcare sector up almost three quarters of a percent. Telecoms trading twothirds of a percent higher real estate a half percent up on the day. The bank stocks, you can see across europe, they are trading lower as are Household Goods and some of those media companies. A huge focus of the media space in europe over havent days. That will be something that invests watch closely. Beyond those sectors, lets talk about whats happening in asia in particular the oil price as well because of this incident he weve seen over the course of the last few minutes and ours, coming out of the gulf of oman brent crude up nearly 2. 9 on the day. It was at a fivemonth low just yesterday lunch time that incident just off the arabian gulf coast seems to be one of the reasons that markets when it comes to oil are focused about that that surge is after that fivemonth low yesterday this follows two incidents involving separate tankers in the gulf of oman dan murphy joins us now. What can you tell us about those incidents. We understand that u. S. Naval forces actually received two separate distress calls in the early hour this morning just after 6 00 a. M. Local time this incident involved two separate vessels the first is a vessel bound for taiwan its believed a fire broke out on board this particular vessel and the crew was forced to abandon ship that makes it quite significant. Its unclear what caused that fire the second ship is a chemical tanker that was moving from saudi arabia and bound for singapore. It was reported to be hit at around the same time as the other ship a statement from that ships operator said the ship had come under suspected attack causing a fire in the engine room. According to reports that vessel is still safely afloat the hull of the ship was breached just above the water line on the starboard side but all crew are reported safe in terms of how authorities are responding to this significant incident off the coast of oman, uk maritime trade operations say they are aware of the incident and are investigating but cannot provide Additional Information to the media we have also attempted to contact the u. S. Navys 5th fleet based in bahrain they have been light with information. But sources and a recent line from them suggests they are working to provide more information and that u. S. Navy ships are indeed in the area and ready to render assistance this is significant for the region because this comes at a time when we have shinzo abe meeting with the iranian leader on the ground in tehran. It also comes at a time when regional tensions have been significantly heightened following another attack on ships off the coast of the uae on may 12th. What weve also learned is that the uae, saudi arabia and norway told the United Nations in the aftermath of that attack that it was highly likely that limpert mines were used on those attack on may 12th. Those countries also said those four attacks were part of a sophisticated and coordinated operation carried out by an actor, most likely a state actor. We know so far the finger of blame has been pointed towards iran however we cannot determine and it cannot be determined if these incidents are indeed linked. This is serious for the region certainly an escalation of tensions, a continuation of an escalation of tensions in the reej he region thats the information as we know it. We will continue to update you as the headlines come through. Clearly a serious incident off the coast of the gulf of oman and thats certainly causing oil prices to spike. Back over to you thank you very much let look at how the Chinese Markets closed over on that side of the world the shanghai comp is up slightly the shenzhen closing 0. 3 higher in hong kong, the hang seng failing to get above the flat line today trading more than 0. 15 down that following those protests that turned violent yesterday. The fact that government offices closed there for the rest of the week and looking at how the renminbi is trading, it looks like the dollar is strengthening against both versions of the currency there. President trump declined to set a deadline for further tariffs on chinese goods he still expects to meet with president xi at the g20 later this month but he thought a deal would eventually happen. He said u. S. China ties remain strong despite the current dispute. I think well have a deal with china we have a good relationship. I think they have to make a deal a lot of companies are leaving china as you know. Theyre going to vietnam, various other places theyre also coming to the United States to make their product because they dont want to pay the tariffs there is no tariff if you do it in the United States scott audrey joins us today what happens if trump and xi cannot see eye to eye at the end of this month . What does that mean for invests in chinese equities . Meet yacimmediate reaction w negative and people will ask why is that. Though this friction point started on trade, it evolved into technology, and even the u. S. Are asking china to roll back the states involvement in the economy, which is directly against what president xi is promoting as a growth model. Lets assume there is a deal or there isnt a deal, what does this do to Business Confidence when it comes to investing in china . What does this do for domestic businesses in china and consumers in china most people are trying to figure out what is the impact for trade on gdp, but youre asking about second and third order impacts. If youre a billionaire and investing in china you will think twice or three times we saw in the Fourth Quarter of last year Consumer Confidence was lower, so they are keeping control more of the domestic media. Absolutely that will hurt investment authorities in beijing have promised that they will give support to continue trading. How confident are you that the authorities there have enough fire power and tools at their disposal to continue the continued growth of their economy . They have lots of small tools. They are deploying them. The limiting factor is the debt within the economy youre seeing investment pick up, fiscal expenditure and tax cuts we should see more of those. The limit is the debt and the transmission mechanism for that debt getting into the economy which appears to be weaker so you want to be shighly he selective about which parts of the economy you invest in. Lets talk about the ratio against the dollar, if that is broken how much further could that fall, do you think . Its an interesting point its such an obvious level that everyone globally can see it i was in china eventually, everyone assumed that the authorities could imagine a gradual depreciation, but Financial Markets continue work like that. You want to look at closely the foreign Currency Exposure of chinese corporates and where they have their debt and there you can start to see issues so, you know, i personally think its an obvious line in the sand, should it go through, it could move much further more rapidly. What about foreign investor inflows . It becomes cheap to put your money into chinese equities for an american investor or european investor, yet you have concerns about what the trade damage will be to the corporate sector how do you make that call as to whether this provides value for you . If youre a denominated investor, if you have the currency starting to weaken, thats a headwind. You have to offset that, so you have to balance those. Perhaps for the next few years you will see some currency hedge. But absolutely, a weaker currency is a head wiwind President Trump not taking a position on hong kong. From your perspective, do you have concernsthat the kind of antichina sentiment we already see in the u. S. Congress could increase around the kind of images we saw from hong kong yesterday and that could have an impact on the way the Trump Administration deals with president xi i think President Trump knows he has many levers he can pull so he could start using some trade negotiations in here but, you know, i think that they both need a deal actually. If you look at the state of both economies, theres some signs that both need a deal and the trade tariffs may be rolled back or some concessions. Over the next two, three years you are in an antiglobalization type of era. You see china turning to russia as friends theres quite a lot of geopolitical evolution going on. Thank you for joining us this morning. Appreciate it. President trump has declined to offer his opinion about yesterdays violent protests in hong kong. When asked whether beijing was overplaying its hand, he chose to talk about the scale and size of those protests. The massive demonstrations, i looked today, that really is a Million People a lot of times people talk about they had 2,000 people. It was really 1,000, 200 i see it all the time. I see it all the time. When you look at this demonstration, they said it was a Million People that was a Million People. That was as big a demonstration as ive ever seen. I hope it all works out for china and hong kong. Are you sending a message to chi china . Thats a demonstration theyre having i understand the reason for the demonstration. Im sure theyll be able to work it out i hope they can work it out with china. Hong kong government offices will remain shut for the rest of the week as authorities strengthen their security measures you can see People Holding a silent protest, holding up signs in hong kong, possibly in response to the violence that we saw yesterday on both sides. Almost 80 people were injured yesterday. Thats after clashes broke out between demonstrators and police a spokesperson for Chinas Foreign Ministry says it is not necessary for there to be concerns about the investment environment in hong kong chery kang filed this record Hong Kongs Legislative Council is at a standstill given wednesdays protests hong kongs Central Government offices are shut for the rest of the week we do see protesters around this area where im standing outside the hong kong Legislative Council building but they are in a much smaller scale. Its peaceful demonstration for the most part. Still calling on the Hong Kong Government to retract this bill, but we do detect some tense moments with the police as well. In the meantime, in a rare move, hong kongs Bar Association coming out with a statement expressing grave concern over this unrest and calling on the Hong Kong Government to question itself in pushing ahead with this current proposal to change the law to make arrangements to extradite criminal suspects of hong kong to Mainland China for trial. As of yesterday hong kongs chief executive carrie lam said she will go ahead with this amendment but she wont do anything thats not in the interest of hong kong and its people im chery kang for cnbc hong kong. Coming up, well be live in luxembourg where they are discussing the ongoing challenges around italys debt do stay with us. Unpredictable crohns symptoms following you . For adults with moderately to severely active crohns disease, stelara® works differently. Studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. Stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. 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He also said its time for the country to come together now is the time to unite this country and unite this society we cannot begin that task until we delivered on the primary request of the people, the big thing that they asked us to do after three years and two missed deadlines, we must leave the eu on october 31st. We must do better than the current Withdrawal Agreement that has been rejected three times by parliament. Im not aiming for a nodeal outcome. I dont think that we will end up with any such thing british mps rejected a motion from the Opposition Labor Party that would have seen mps take control of Parliamentary Business in the future the measure would have given opponents of a Nodeal Brexit time to introduce legislation that would have blocked that possibility. In italy the Prime Minister says he is confident that italy will be able to address eu concerns and insisted the countrys debt will be reduced faster than even we expected silvia joins us from luxembourg. What can we expect from these meetings well, we can expect a general discussion about italy, the eurozone finance ministers are gathering in luxembourg. We should expect some detail when it comes to their demands for lower debt in italy. At the same time different sources told me we should not expect an official decision on whether to open an excessive deficit procedure. We mentioned this process quite often. So lets take a moment to understand what this means this is a step by step approach that will monitor whether a country is working to reduce its high debt or its high public deficit. And in this process the commission suggests ways in which by which the country with achieve that. And if theres no action by that member state that is when we talk about fines and potential sanctions against that member state. When it comes to italy, i have to point out that we are only at stage two out of 17 possible steps. So this means discussion about fines and sanctions is too early to be on the table what we expect from the euro group is just a general debate the italian finance minister will debrief the other finance ministers, explain his plan for the italian economy, and then the earliest possible date we could expect the finance ministers to step up their scrutiny on the i talian economy is next month when they gather once again in brussels the two things we should monitor are the developments in rome, the politics there, and the dynamics between the two deputy Prime Ministers and then of course Market Reaction last week the point was made that the Market Sentiment could be much more effective in leading to policy change in italy rather than european processes. You know there are plenty of issues to look at when we look at the eurozone economy, but also theres plenty going on in terms of Political Development in the aftermath of the european elections. Lets not forget that there are different discussions going on about who should be the next president of the European Commission, of the European Parliament so ill be addressing these issues with the Prime Minister of luxembourg within the next hour thank you very much we look forward to that interview. The Swiss National bank has kept Interest Rates on hold to ease pressure on what it describes as a highly valued franc. Joumanna bercetche joins me with more there were no major surprises about the rate hold, but did the team have anything new to say he compared to recent statements . Thats it, nobody was expecting them to do anything major on the Monetary Policy front. The Swiss National bank has the lowest deposit rate in the world right now and the Lowest Bank Fees compared to other Central Banks. No major decisions were taken. I would say in terms of their forecast, the one major update they took was on the inflation side they upgraded inflation for 2019 to 0. 3 to 0. 6 . They kept the others unchanged the price stability target is 2 a far cry away from that but today a lot of the expectations were about the language and what language the president , Thomas Jordan, would use to describe the currency in particular since the last meeting in march the swiss franc deprecated almost 2 versus the greenback and the euro leading some to think they could change the description from highly valued to significantly overvalued. They did not do that they say the currency continues to be highly valued. We also had some dovish language coming out of mr. Jordan as well he said expanding Monetary Policy remains necessary so he is reinforcing the view that they have the Interest Rates, they have the balance sheets, and if need be they would resort to using one or the other. Whats interesting about market Interest Rate expectations is that for whatever reason investors are pricing in more rate cuts out of the snb than the ecb. It will be interesting to see whether or not the ecbs actions will have an impact on this decision making. One thing i would add, clearly a bit of disappointment in fx markets today, they have not changed their language i was looking at euro swiss, it is trading about 0. 2 firmer also swiss may want to bear in mind they have been eventually removed from the currency manipulation list from the u. S and the u. S. , when they add countries to this list, they look at three possible criteria. One is a current account surplus of 3 . A bilateral trade surplus with the u. S. Of more than 20 billion. And the third is aggressive fx intervention if they go down that route in the future something to watch out for. They could be back on the watch list for the u. S its a question i will pose to Thomas Jordan in just a couple hours time stay tuned for that exclusive interview. Looking forward to it thank you very much. For more news on Central Banks dont miss our coverage of the ecb forum on central banking in portugal next week. Coming up, frances foreign minister wants to improve relationships with renault well have more details after this brick. Welcome back to street signs. Im willem marx in london. Here are some headlines. European stocks open lower while crude prices surge after two shipping incidents in the gulf of oman. President trump leaves the deadline open for fresh tariffs on china as he warns the relationship with beijing has becomes challenging. I think well end up making a deal with china. We have a very good relationship, its a bit testy right now as you would expect. I think they have to make a deal tesco hales a strong start to the year but uk sales slow in the latest quarter and telecoms outperform after a 6. 6 euro billion auction. Well, its been a relatively positive start to the morning for european equities. We look at the four major indices on the continent, the ftse trading higher. In germany the xetra dax is up 0. 4 in paris, the cac 40 is not doing as well as some of its peers. Nearly 0. 10 higher. The ftse mib is up on the day. If we look at currency pairs, interesting set of circumstances specifically around the swiss franc. The dollar is weaker against the swiss by a quarter of a percent. The pound trading lower against the dollar as brexit turmoil and the conservative Party Candidate leadership race dominates peoples views of british politics and the economic strength of the country. The dollar is waeseaker againsth japanese yen a bit of dollar weakness but not too much you can see brent is trading 2. 5 high her after it hit a fivemonth low yesterday lunch time traders are quite concerned about the two incidents involving oil tankers off the coast of oman. Wti trading higher thales is trading higher after the Defense Group upped its full year Profit Guidance thales said the deal will boost the companys presence in the space. And germanys deutsche telekom, vodafone, telefonica a and drillish are complaining that high prices could limit future investment in the networks the french finance minister said he would meet with renaults chairman and said the company will never buckle under pressure on the auto maker. The government representative was said to be the only person on renaults board to insist on delaying the deal. He wi on wednesday frena French Software company agreed to buy meta data. Kkr made a 6 6. 7 billion takeove offer for axel springer. And ratheon is said to be considering a mega merge their would boost sales to around 74 billion a year lets look at volkswagen the ceo there talking in the last few minutes the company has been very much on the focus of investors minds over the course of the last few weeks and months because of whats going on with trade situations involving the eu and the u. S. The ceo says performance is at the top end of the range the share price is still too low. The company saying they need to change that, saying theyre working hard to improve the ipo of trapeon, they want to do that before the summer break. The ceo also saying the Company Risks getting into a desperate situation regarding global trade operations cooperation talks with ford on electric car platforms are almost finished. Weve been talking about mergers. Lets bring in Nick Odonnell from Baker Mackenzie we ran through some of the megamergers and big tieups weve seen this week on the subject of cross border protectionism, the french, the italians, the germans, as a government they sometimes like to get involved in these deals is that something that investors should be more concerned about than they already are . I think youre right. I think there is a concern about where are we going with this new protectionism. We were talking earlier that weve seen in paris the renault tieup also with Deutsche Bank talks. You can go through example after example. Its not just within europe. In the u. S. As well. The team, if you broaden the narrative out in terms of merger controls, many deals could have been torpedoed the narrative is quite interesting. There is a report yesterday that came out from the mps here in the uk talking about major new National Security regime for ipo candidates in london thats not m a but its imos, but the language is quite loosely drafted. Well come back to ipos in a moment i have questions about Political Uncertainty around the European Commission since the commission has been so vocal in blocking some mergers, like thyssenkrupp, when yyou lok at it, do you think a new commission should be more lenie lenient . Is that something investors should be aware of or do you expect continuity . Its hard to say. We have to expect continuity i think the greater concern is maybe the broader theme of though weve run through some mega deals, if you go behind the mega deals the market is not that busy. I think thats where if youre an investor you think were back in reality i dont think we are back to 2018 regarding big deals, but to some extent the regulator can only regulate the deals are out there. When you sit in on meetings with financiers are pitching ideas for their clients, do you get the sense that the word brexit hangs over these conversations like a lead balloon . I think it does increasingly. Its interesting that we seem to be getting to a place where the risk reward rationality is maybe changing so the maybe a few years ago people may have looked and said i will go for it the uk by most metrics is a massively oversold market and people are investing in the way you might expect ceos are going there must be longterm value here in the shortterm it may well be a risk you dont get the sense theyre pushing people to take that gamble where do you see potential upside for m a in terms of sectors and countries, not just here in europe but further afield there are lots of dry spots as long as Interest Rates remain low there will be lots of m a. Germany is an interesting market with their incredible industrial base, and they are changing their mindset and looking at different ways of doing things the sectors that have been busy for a while will continue to be busy some of the pharma and Life Sciences deals and private equity theyre trying to raise a trillion dollars this year big funds are raising big amounts of money they will do deals thank you shares in crowdstrike closed higher to 58 in its market debut on wednesday that gave it a market cap of 11 11. 5 billion. Crowdstrike grabbed the public sentiment in 2017 when it discovered Russian Hackers had infiltrated servers during the 2016 president ial campaign when you look at some of the big ipos being marketed on both sides of the atlantic, what does investor reaction tell you about the current landscape . If anything. It tells me they are still the money is still out there it tells me the market is the animal spirits are still there in the u. S theyre not there in the same way in europe and the uk europe and the uk, Market Expectations behind closed doors were so low at the start of the year ive been pleasantly surprised weve only seen 13 london ipos this year. By many measures, not a great year, but thats sort of an overperformance from what people were saying privately in january. How much does brexit have to do with that, do you think its an interesting question. Are we just seeing deals being pushed back into next year or is this a longerterm issue is it optimistic that things will be better by october . Well, yeah. Ting into politicu i could see that i would take the view in terms of the ipo market, its like the scottish referendum. Brexit were planning this but it will come back. What does a weak pound do to that decisionmaking process . The majority of london ipos are not ukbased businesses, so if youre raising money in pounds and looking to invest in euros, surely thats not a strong incentive to do it in london im not sure people see it that way the small end of the market, they are uk dominated businesses, that makes an impact but the pricing only happened today, if youre launching with a spanish business, that will be priced into the pricing mechanism. Okay. Lets talk about hong kong protests there are not happy about chinese interference when it comes to their judicial system the Hong Kong Exchange is happy to have Chinese Companies listing there. Do you think that the increasing financial integration weve seen thanks to decisions by the Hong Kong Exchange will really help the economies on both sides of the strait there i think it will i think hong kong has a unique infrastructure in the region and that will ultimately make it work in the same way you see dubai in the middle east have its ups and downs. Andin london, even with brexit with the infrastructure, the language, all those things, it will make it work. Similarly between china and hong kong, its interesting, but over time i think they will try to make that work well leave it there. Thank you very much for coming in coming up on the show, facebook beware. The irish Data Protection commissioner helen dixon says an investigation into the social media firm will conclude in the next few months. Well have more from that interview in a few moments time. It felt like my heart was skipping beats. They said i had afib. Whats afib . I knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. I needed answers. My doctor and i chose xarelto®. To help keep me protected from a stroke. Oncedaily xarelto®, a latestgeneration blood thinner. Significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. In a clinical study, over 96 of people taking xarelto® remained strokefree. 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Carrier verizon pay more than 1 billion in licensing fees to fund 230 of the chinese tech giants patents verizon is using coronet works that rely on huawei patents a verizon spokesman stressed any issue that involves huawei alha broader geopolitical implications. Facebook closed lower on wednesday after emails were found that Mark Zuckerberg was aware of questionable privacy practices. That was in the wall street journal. It found emails sent in 2012 suggested that zuckerberg and other executives did not enforce a ftc decree regarding privacy the ftc opened an investigation into the social media firm after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The irish Data Protection xhig commission expects to wrap up an investigation into facebook in a few months thats right. The irish Data Protection commission is conducting investigations under the gdpr. Ooir ireland is in charge of regulating a lot of big multinational companies. It opened investigations into Facebook Helen dixon saying they expect the first conclusions to be reached in the coming months, this summer. We also expect shes had conversations with Senior Executives at facebook and she has also been speaking with lawmakers in the u. S one point she highlighted is the growing convergence of Data Protection and antitrust in this general sentiment about the big tech industry. Listen to her comments about that the eu Data Protection authorities have recognized there are a lot of regulatory fears crashing up against one another when you look at the internet platforms weve been participating for the last number of years in the digital hearing house. Its an initiative started by the european Data Protection supervisor on a voluntary and informal basis and we had a meeting just the last if fortnight, he bringing together media regulators, authorities and others with interest in this area so we can tease out the issues, better understand the Legal Framework under which each of us operate and where they may intersectininte intersectiinte intersect. Data protection norms are being considered when mergers are happening in particular. Absolutely there has to be more of a convergence between different forms of regulation. We support that. President trump even recently called out the eu and said they have done well from a regulatory point getting money from the tech companies, maybe the europe and u. S. Should look at that what do you say to that . I think the purpose of the fines and punitive nature of fines under Data Protection law is to punish and serve as an example of wrongdoing in respect of the laws. I dont think its a matter of collecting money as a way to avoid the eu collecting that money. An interesting money there about the enforcement of this new law. So far there have not been fines issued und e issued under gdpr facebook could face up to 2 billion of fines, but dixon said it has been a turning point over the last year because of the scandals weve seen regarding Cambridge Analytica. You have her talking publicly we saw earlier talks in tel aviv this week saying the doj has the tools to take on big tech. Does she has anything to say about what her american counterparts may be doing on their end . She was in washington testifying in front of the senate and seeing whether they could adopt a similar law to gdpr here, and she is in talks with the ftc, t so there should be a Cooperation Among regulators Data Collection do alcould alson antitrust monopoly right now when it comes to money laundering, you see cooperation across jurisdictions when it comes to antitrust, interesting to see whether we will see cooperation with the big u. S. Firms, especially when you have trump saying europeans are hard on tech firms, we should do the same thing one other question what are the investigations that ireland is conducting on a company like facebook outside of that particular area . So in addition to facebook, the irish Data Protection commission has multinational investigations into Companies Like apple, google, twitter, data brokers are being investigated the idea is that the way these Companies Collect data could cause concern and they want to say we need to have you change your business model, not just fine you but you need to change the way you operate. Elizabeth, thank you very much President Trump has hinted he would be open to accepting information from Foreign Countries on any of his political opponents. In an interview with abc news, trump said he would pass the information on to u. S. Investigators but only under certain circumstances. I think i might want to listen theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent, oh, i think i would want to hear that you want that kind of interference in our elections . Its not an interference. They have information. I would take it. If i thought something was wrong i would take it to the fbi though comments come less than a week before the launch of his Reelection Campaign tracie potts joins us live from washington what else in that interview stuck out to you well, what stuck out was the president talking about what he describes as Oppo Research opposition research. Is there anything wrong. All the campaigns do this. They do research on their opponents to try to use information from their backgrounds, things they said. Even things that may not have been discovered. But the difference here is the campaign itself getting this information versus a foreign government, sometimes a hostile government that may actually have an interest in the outcome of the election. Could they be feeding information to one campaign to try to influence the election. This is the basis of the entire russian investigation. This is also why the president s son was called back into capitol hill to testify about his own meeting in 2016 with a russian lawyer, and what if any information he passed along to his father, then candidate trump, about that meeting. Its almost like deja vu going into the next election the reaction on capitol hill, particularly from democrats, the president s opponents, is that doing so, taking in this information, listening to it and then deciding whether to report it to the fbi is unamerican, they call it treasonous and the very definition of collusion, which the president has repeatedly said was not found in the mueller investigation. Thanks for those details. That was tracie potts from nbc news in washington. Stay he tuned, well hear from the chris National Bank chairman, Thomas Jordan, later today in a few moments time. And well speak to the luxembourg Prime Minister as the countdown to brexit draws closer lets check in on u. S. 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