Would be no winners from a trade war. We are 30 minutes away from the start of the trading day in hong kong. The but and take lumpur starting the session. What is going on . One point clear. About the equity markets in just a moment. This will highlight how the sentiment has changed from this time last week. Friday, monday and tuesday and that is where we are at the moment. When you look at what sort of investors are buying into it is almost like protection. Japan is one of the worst hit in the world. The second worst performing market. Dollaryen pushing toward 112. That is an extreme example but it is what is hitting asian equities at the moment. Were seeing that extend the losses from europe into wall street. Waites are up and lets for that to get underway. We saw the biggest drop in stocks since the brexit vote. Futures and all things. Qual, gold gets bid up lets wrap things up with a look at the markets opening. We have time one and where i am thatpore and we have is a third of 1 .
Look at the turnaround in the japanese yen. We saw a sudden weakening, it was strengthening earlier today. Now the japanese yen is weakening versus the dollar. The dollar gaining. Overall the dollar is down against most of its tears today peers today. Everyone is wondering if we will see a fed rate hike come september. We folks are wondering will work what we see it start as soon as this month . The fat the dollar is weakening, many feel the china data means they cannot go so quickly. Dollar up by 0. 3 . Oil also trading lower. Some of the the to six regarding chinese some of the statistics regarding oil are surprising. Slowing demand for fuel really affecting wti. Copper managing to trade higher. Yesterday it got a pop from the fact that glencore will be reducing its output in africa. It is all about insurance. The Japanese Company i do not amlin. Amlin yet to open, but we are expecting it to search. Byy are being offered insurance, 3. 5 billion pounds. We would like to see them searc
A look of what else we are dropping. 82 year low. Currencies, what we have seen is a move towards the safe haven. Yen strengthening against the dollar. The swiss franc is strengthening against the dollar. What we have seen as the euro becomes a safe haven. The correlation between the euro yen act of the highest since 2007. That is the currency. I cannot get back to you until i have a look at oil. I want to look at wti first. A three day bull rally up and three days. The biggest threeday gain in 25 years coming off of the now a little bit. Samestore for brent crude. Last week, we saw brent drop below 45 a barrel for the First Time Since 2009. It is now 54 a barrel. Back to you. Jonathan . Early rules. The ftse 100, the city getting back to work. Is down by over one percentage point. Big moves and asia. Not in japan and not in china but japan. Reporter i wish i had better news but a down day across of the region. What looks to be a volatile september. Disappointing data from china drivin
Quarters and the field station where the new asset was. We went back to basic toes communicate. It wasnt the stone age, but it was pretty close we said. We did have a technical something that was sort of out of this world at the time. We have our new asset. He is okay. We are keeping this one alive. Enter my coauthor who is on assignment in garbone as our chief of stations. She returns home and she is trapped with trying to determine what in the heck happened. She has a Small Task Force of people who begin this effort. At the same time jean and her people are looking at our losses, the fbi has also established a task force. They suffered similar problems with their soviet cases during the same time period as we. All right. Now we are going to have to fast forward. It is early 1991, a little over five and a half years later and we still dont have a clue as to what happened. That is not to say there were not plenty of explanations and leads. There were lots. Each was fully investigated a
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