Countries. [chimes] the 9392nd meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance of International Peace and security, famine, and conflictinduced global Food Insecurity. The agenda is adopted. First, i wish to warmly welcome the distinguished ministers and other highlevel representatives. Your presence here today underscores the importance of the subject matter that is under discussion. In accordance with rule 37 of the councils provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representatives of algeria, argentina, armenia, australia, azerbaijan, bangladesh, belarus, the National State of bolivia, burkina faso, cambodia, chile, cuba, denmark, egypt, estonia, ethiopia, georgia, germany, guatemala, guyana, haiti, india, indonesia, ireland, israel, italy, jordan, kenya, latvia, lebanon, liberia, liechtenstein, mexico, morocco, myanmar, the kingdom of the netherlands, nigeria, oman, pakistan, panama, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar,
Countries. [chimes] the 9392nd meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance of International Peace and security, famine, and conflictinduced global Food Insecurity. The agenda is adopted. First, i wish to warmly welcome the distinguished ministers and other highlevel representatives. Your presence here today underscores the importance of the subject matter that is under discussion. In accordance with rule 37 of the councils provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representatives of algeria, argentina, armenia, australia, azerbaijan, bangladesh, belarus, the National State of bolivia, burkina faso, cambodia, chile, cuba, denmark, egypt, estonia, ethiopia, georgia, germany, guatemala, guyana, haiti, india, indonesia, ireland, israel, italy, jordan, kenya, latvia, lebanon, liberia, liechtenstein, mexico, morocco, myanmar, the kingdom of the netherlands, nigeria, oman, pakistan, panama, philippines, poland, portugal, qatar,
The russia 10year drops after they eased more than people expected and said there could be lower rates, more than people thought asked year. Of we are looking at the home, stock index, that is down 1. 5 . Volatility is the highest in the year. Of this stems from the idea that global banks are going to enter into a tightening cycle. The u. K. 10year is dropping by two basis points. The bank of england is probably not going to raise rates anytime soon, growth is not jumping off in any major way. The brexit negotiations are ongoing and complicated and possibly getting more complicated, if possible. Alix it was steady as she goes, not doing anything to ruffle feathers. Supportive of markets, if anything were to disrupt them, that could equal to a negative yield index. Alix lets talk about what its making headlines. This is emma chandra. Emma brexit talks can enter phase two here and they agreed that the british Prime Minister has complied with their divorce conditions. Now they will discus
Election issue. Plus i am outside the hong kong legislative council. We will get the first policy address from carrie lam, expected to deliver comments on Affordable Housing issues, tax breaks for small businesses, reaching out to disenfranchise youth. Rishaad going over to steve shortly. Going to bring up a chart showing where the problems are when it comes to the property market, arguably the most expensive in the world. Withages have not kept up in housing market, which is turquoise, the white line average wages in hong kong. Be talking about a taxation system for business, the housing market, expected to announce a Publicprivate Partnership to expand access to firsttime buyers, public transport, a monthly travel subsidy of as much as 300 hong kong dollars a month. That speech in a couple of hours. Sophie it is costly to live here, so looking forward to what carrie lam has to say, addressing the affordability issue of housing. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia have just, on the line.
We are up off the lows of the session actually. Still seeing a decline. We were seeing a drop of about into thisprices going report. Usually it takes a little time for it to shake out. Out later where oil is trading. Whats going on in the stock market today. A little bit of a drowned downdraft. You into thee bloomberg and take a look at the groups on the move. We were just talking about oil prices and energy has been one of the drags in todays session. Discretionary stocks are weaker. Financials are weaker in the wake of earnings from j. P. Morgan and citigroup that the estimates. There were some disappointments in the numbers and Telecom Stocks falling. Lost videot had subscribers last quarter. Weve got them strength in utilities industrials and consumer staples. That is the balancing act we are seeing at the moment. Toside of stocks and forgot mention bitcoin rising to a record yet again. 5,200 for one bitcoin. Jamie dimon when asked about that coin said, im not going to talk about b