You. Putting into context the Foreign Exchange movements have seen in 2016. The story yesterday was around the pound and we will get to that. An pound against the dollar, underperformer in 2016. It hasnt moved all that far from where it started this year. The yen a very different story. It advances this year as the pound falters to the yen. Feeling the pressures of the polling data around the brexit data. That seems to move the japanese currency up as well. If we move up to where the assets have been moving overnight, you can take us through that. We heard this from george soros. Manus we talked about this as the show goes on. Sorosxit is ion agenda. It really recovered yesterday. One quarter of 1 this morning. I find it most fastening that fascinating is that he said who would think it would take the pound for europe. The dollaryen is also on the move. The longest rally under abe has just been broken. The longest streak. Gold at the bottom of your screen falls for the third time if th
House election. And osborne hits wall street. The u. K. Chancellor heads to new york, aimed at shoring up confidence in the u. K. As economists think the bank of england governor could act as soon as this week. Caroline is in berlin. This is on the move. Not countdown. Im catching up with myself. It is too much for me. Futures up in london. Harris indicated up 1. 7 . This is a brisk march higher in the markets. What you saw there was a nice, strong reading. The world is asking itself, where are we . London, paris, frankfurt, the next indicated stronger as well. We have stronger market. Citigroup are bullish on commodities for 2017. Caroline . Caroline that march higher in futures being brought over from asian trading. We have seen significant gains on the msci asiapacific. It has been a cracker of a day in japan. Prime minister abes Ruling Coalition winning the upper house election. Earlier today, talking about old economic measures he wants to put in place. The yen underperforming as
We hear from both ceos. Man group exclusive. We speak to the man taking charge of the worlds biggest publicly traded hedge fund. Dont miss the conversation with incoming ceo luke ellis. Caroline less than half an hour to go until the market open and great sense of earnings interviews. Futures currently a little bit lackluster, but we are trading higher. We are seeking overall were seeing overall an increase on the board. Apologies, i just got to scroll through to get you to the right screen. Were having if you technical glitches. Having a look at some of the asset, it is all about the bank of japan, the affect on the yen. Were seeing the yen. Dollar falling, yen trading higher. 1. 2 , but i want to focus on commodities as well. Worst month in a year for wti crude. Were seeing inventories pick up. Lets have a look at the key news. David ingles. David thanks, caroline. Hillary clinton says america is at a moment of reckoning and has belittled Donald Trumps claims that he alone can solve
Companies later in the program. A warm welcome to countdown. , the yen onthe boj a merry dance this morning. Yen strength, up more than 2 . Here are the charts of the currency markets verdict of what the boj announced this morning. Yen strengthening following the announcement. Thesions culminating in buying of more etfs, dollar lending, but no change in the bond buying program. Some disappointment about the extent to which of the boj was prepared to act. Ify say they will do more needed, but say they will review policies today. Fixed income markets, 10 year , the biggestsing since 2013. Lets get to some breaking news. Inbev, out of ab organic Revenue Growth 4 . The estimate was 5. 8 . Volumes down, 1. 7 . The estimate was 1 . Those numbers look to be light in terms of the expectations. Adjusted organic growth also disappointing. They are talking about the sab miller deal, still see that closing in 2016. Because of the declining popularity of some of their brands, they have been pursuin
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