Equities market. Anna a warm welcome to countdown. I am anna edwards. Reporter and i am guy johnson from the greek capital. Anna lets get you up to speed on what is been happening. Lets talk about what has been going on. We will start with the euro. This is the last three days. Lower at the start of the Asian Session as the Foreign Exchange market picked up. We dipped below 110 and came up in the hours that followed moving a little higher. That initial flight to safety in a number of asset classes, definitely present but moderating a little bit. Looking at some of the other asset classes, you can see that as well. Look at what happened to the yen. Again, flight to safety but moderating a little as we get into our stride on this monday morning. How long will any calmness last in the london session . We will have to see. We may see that flight to safety resume. The treasury yield, another expression of the flight to safety trade this morning. Yield coming down on tenyear treasuries, but
Countdown. Lets start with twitter and the roller coaster that was the share price. The initial reaction to the number bound bounce was positive, jack dorsey started to speak candidly about the shortcomings of the business that is when investors started to rethink and the stock fell. Fascinating roller coaster ride. Lets talk about what has happened in the u. S. More broadly u. S. Stocks calling time on the longest losing streak since january in yesterdays session. Stock was up, better than estimated reports. Ups, pfizer ford, coming in better. It paints a positive picture so far. Mma in europe talks yesterday help as well. Lets move to the question the morning on twitter, whats could threaten the m a wave . You could find me on twitter. Lets talk about what is happening in the asian session. Over to china now, as the countrys equity index swings. Our market reporter from hong kong joins us for the latest. Juliet it has been a fluctuating market. Asian markets followed in general, that
Deutsche bank has lost records of electronic chats linked to the interest probe. Now the biggest bank is trying to recover the messages which it says it yelled archive. It failed to archive. Welcome to the program. Its friday and you are watching countdown, live from london. Its 6 00 and lets get to some breaking news. We will start with the aviation sector. Airbus. Njera hi, anna. We have the first half revenue number 48 billion euros. Airbus has also confirmed its first half guidance. We gave an update on the a400m deliveries they have resumed, 290 million euro charge. We are waiting still for more numbers to come out. Dividend per share is to increase in 2015. The big challenge for airbus overall is that it has a lot to deliver in termsand it seems like the first half guidance is coming as normal. With the a400 there was that crash of the military aircraft. The ceo did say back in may that that would jeopardize the earnings goals, and today we have heard that the deliveries have res
Serious. As a result, risk off. Investors launch into haven assets, golden treasuries. Will we breach the record high on the u. S. Tenure 17 . President trump heads to texas as Tropical Storm harvey is set to make a second landfall. Both saying it is too early to assess damage for how high will outnumber be. That number will be. An hourss than half from the european open and what futures are pointing to, obviously we are seeing red arrows across the board with euro stoxx 50 futures dropping about two thirds of 1 , ftse futures also right there. Forre looking at the same futures across the entire european spectrum, at least the major equity indexes. Are fleeing to risk assets, i have been keeping my eye on the risk assets all morning long. Just to see how seriously the market takes this Missile Launch. It is very interesting to try and figure out how much of this is priced in already and how much concern the markets will show. Guy end of month, you have to factor that in. Ome window dre
Will meet with President Trump at the white house. She looks for leverage in trade talks. And he beat for ubs. Profit more than tripled in the Fourth Quarter at the swiss bank. Come back for good, matt . Than half anless hour away from the european open, guy. We saw a lot of Investor Confidence yesterday. Here and throughout asia and the u. S. Here we see ftse futures futures have dax little changed after a couple days of rallies. We will see if anything happens in equities today. Id say the focus is a lot more on other Asset Classes this morning, guy. Look to your Foreign Exchange column, it is the second one in on your bloomberg. Drop it down to a g20 on the top and what you can see here is 1. 2 percent down versus the u. S. Dollar. Japanese yen on the move that as well this morning. Bojstory rounding the biting more and more. Cue, the South African rand has overtaken the mexican peso is one of the worst performers out there. You can see if i drop this down, where the peso is, down b