School massacre. Hello from sydney, where our where in the. , and opening the market spread. Had to theke you asiapacific trading, but today markets were closed because of the president s day holiday, so i will send it over to you. Heidi european stocks faltering and futures looking at low bit low, but look at the set up here in new zealand where we are seeing trading under way and had output and input prices coming in, pretty much banking on expectations. Seeing a flat session when it comes to kiwi stocks and the kiwi dollar trading at 7371 with the u. S. Dollar a little bit weaker overnight. Futures in australia, ahead of four pointspen is the downside, and the aussie dollar also a touch weaker against the euro and the yen, and the aussie kiwi is at 1. 0737. Down,o have gold futures and crude seeing gains, wti lets get you to first world news. The reason may is preparing to set up her vision for the u. K. Post exit trade deal in a speech seem to aim at domestic trading. Did as yet th
All of them down. The asian markets we re all of them down. The asian markets were looking healthy earlier that they are taking their cue from the us, which had a bit of a downturn. Also in the programme. City life can be high on excitement but low on community spirit. Well be meeting the man whos putting the community at the core of social networks. Today we want to know do get in touch. Hello and welcome to business live. The boss of the worlds biggest mining firm glencore has said that 2017 was its best ever. It follows strong results from its rivals bhp billiton and Anglo American earlier this week. All of them are benefitting from the improved Global Economy. Glencore says its adjusted profits for 2017 came in at 14. 76 billion thats 44 more than a year earlier. Shareholders will be pleased to see that the company is recommending that they get 2. 9bn in dividends. Thats way above the minimum. And rising commmodity prices also helped net debt fall 31 to 10. 67 billion. That puts th
We are under 30 minutes to the close on equity trading in europe, and we are seeing some gains in european equities. A bit of by divergence between europe and the u. S. You can see broadbase base looking at the regions, the euro stoxx 50 up. Ibex is one of the better performers, up. 7. We have seen gains on the dax and cap 40 cac 40. Overall, equities are in the green. The fx space has been the story of dollar strength, bouncing back room a threeyear low. Euro down. 5. Cable unchanged. Not such a sizable move in that fixed income spaces. Of movement there. If we turn our attention to the stoxx 600 and what is happening within the Industry Groups, most are gaining on the headline level in the benchmark up. 4. Construction and industrial Good Companies leading gains and lagging are commodity producers, down. 5. Thanks also underperforming. Banks also underperforming. To the fx space, i was talking euro weakness. G10. Did well compared to the games have slowed as the rally in the yen has
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