Although probeijing officials have said we should not be too concerned, it will lead to stability in the city. 7 . Sci asia pacific down it is certainly something of a riskoff mood, following off what we saw toward the end of play on friday in the u. S. The nikkei is down more than 1 . In the mainland, you have a bit of pressure as well a despite industrial profits up 6 coming in over the weekend for the month of may. On to the next board. We will be looking at the currencies. A bit of dollar weakness. On friday it reached its highest level in four weeks, but it has since come off slightly, leading to a bit of strength for the offshore currency here in china. The korean won is up about plan to 01 . On to some of the commodities we are looking at. Wti has been under pressure as the demand story as we focus on the rate of infections, 10 million infections, 500,000 deaths, you can see that it is lower today. Gold, science that investors are preparing to cross through 1800. 0. 64 . Year yi
It is still on. President trump insists a phase one trade agreement with china is fully intact. Peter navarro claims his earlier comments were taken out of context after suggesting the deal was over. The European Commission is more confrontational. E. U. Lash out at beijing over hong kongs autonomy, disinformation, and foreign investor meant foreign investment. We are in brussels. Hard times for softbank. The Company Sells part of its tmobile stake, creating 21 billion dollars to help offset record losses in its investment business. We will have the details for you briefly. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning after we closed down yesterday in the u. S. And the u. S. Managed to eek out some gains. They are trading solidly higher. Dax futures are up. 6 percent. Ftse futures up about. 25 . What do you see on the gmm . Anna we have certainly been whipsawed by those comments by Peter Navarro on trade and the abil
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With debt service and costs that are higher than profits such a fundamentally important char american corporations are increasingly doing business only as a side possible to their real purpose which is transferring cast from lenders to looters remember the lenders are you know that all of those bonds thats being transferred to the Zombie Companies and theyre looting well you know this goes back to something weve been saying for a number of years now that corporations only really have a profit in terms of what they can engineer on their cash desks as theyre called right so you have like a Car Companies in america they start making money making cars they made money leasing cars and then taking the income from those leases and building derivative portfolios and ponzi schemes and then the executives of buy back their own stock and then the options go up in value and they all become billionaires somehow magically not knowing why even though their Car Companies were losing money and losing m
President s, you need to put a tiger in the tank. It is very clear what the uk needs. Uk Prime Minister says a brexit deal by the end of the month is possible despite key sticking points. Jeff bezos goes to washington founder and ceo is willing to testify after long resisting a longranging inquiry of antitrusting nbc confirms north korea has blown up an office hours after they threatened to take action. A warm welcome this morning. A lot to get to. Lets kick off with the energy markets. We have a fresh report out of the iea. The iea has raised the 2020 forecast by nearly 500,000 barrels a day due to demand from china and india as well as the lockdown Global Oil Supply outlook fell in may opec plus countries reduced out look by 9. 4 Million Barrels a day. Interesting to see that they do now see a stronger Oil Demand Forecast than they now had seen previously they note that oacd industry stocks rose to 3. 1 billion above fiveyear average. In terms of oil demand, that is coming from bette