President trump, whos on his first state visit to china, has watched a military honour guard in the heart of beijing after he was greeted by the chinese leader, xijinping. The two are now holding talks at the great hall of the people. Our correspondent, Aleem Maqbool is in beijing too, travelling with President Trump. The president will be very keen to come away from beijing with some progress, surely, on north korea and trade. What chance of either of those . Well, he will claim lots of progress on both regards, i am sure, but if it is about coming array with something intangible and then he may well struggle. It has been interesting but four months through the Election Campaign and his administration he spoke about how tough it would be with china. We heard his first remarks in our. He was sitting opposite the president of china at the beginning of the bilateral talks and his opening comments were rather fawning. Bilateral talks and his opening comments were ratherfawning. He bilater
We are live at the Abu Dhabi Petroleum exhibition. Yousef it is 8 00 a. M. In dubai. I am yousef gamal eldin. Was rather lackluster start to the trading week. Not a lot of earnings coming through to support these markets. The rest of asia not so. Are across where we , akets in the asiapacific fairly mixed session across the benchmarks. Down. 3 . Also some Movement Across chinese markets, up 2. 5 . Region, somein the changes if you will to the hang seng index composition, some movement in Cathay Pacific down. Things to note as we make our way into the latter part of this asian trading session. A slow start to the trading week. Lets get into the trauma that took place on day one of the dubai air show. What an upset. The press Conference Room was filled with people in anticipation of the deal with airbus. Billions of dollars in additional odors. Orders. What came through was boeing dreamliners, not just an upset for airbus, that further a350 program. Tie down aable to deal with azerbaijan
Billion. Sydney, just past 8 a. M. Im haidi lun. This is daybreak asia. In new after 6 p. M. York. Im betty liu. We will be looking in all the action on wall street playing into the asiapacific trading day. Two within the last minutes, we got that breaking news out of washington. President trump firing the fbi director james comey. Our chief White House Correspondent has the latest on this news. . Evin, what happened here he fired comey on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions, right . Reporter yes this is breaking is just coming out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, where fbi director comey has been fired. President informing the fbi that he will no longer be leading the bureau. In the letter where he informed mr. Comey of the firing, he says i want to read it to you. He says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three everett occasions separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to
Billion. Sydney, just past 8 a. M. Im haidi lun. This is daybreak asia. In new after 6 p. M. York. Im betty liu. We will be looking in all the action on wall street playing into the asiapacific trading day. Two within the last minutes, we got that breaking news out of washington. President trump firing the fbi director james comey. Our chief White House Correspondent has the latest on this news. . Evin, what happened here he fired comey on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions, right . Reporter yes this is breaking is just coming out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, where fbi director comey has been fired. President informing the fbi that he will no longer be leading the bureau. In the letter where he informed mr. Comey of the firing, he says i want to read it to you. He says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three everett occasions separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the department of justice that you are not able to
Foundations for a new eastwest trade route. Rishaad the weekend hackers may strike again on monday. At apples market capitalization in excess of 800 billion. If you add them up, you have a 8527,d capitalization, we are at roughly 3 trillion. Quite something. That is what we have at the moment. Some people saying these five have too much clout when it comes to soft power and real power with the amount of data they have at their disposal. The tech names pushing higher with the rest of the market treading water. On the asian agenda, some china expected, retail sales come Industrial Production, some of that expected to have ease, particularly industrial activity , painting the picture q1 was week. I want to touch on the credit data over the weekend and on friday. , credit expansion continues to push forward despite the Deleveraging Campaign from beijing that has shaken the markets. We did see these numbers coming in stronger than expected, aggregate financing expanding to just over 200 bil