serious protests on the streets here in moscow. you have to remember the environment. the environment was the arab spring. there were protests spreading all croesus the world. the first time people were waking up to the power of social media, to mobilize crowds. and it rattled the kremlin. and there was a belief by putin that hillary clinton at the time as secretary of state was if not orchestrating it, was deeply involved and supporting it. i think from then on, there has been a lot of animosity directed at her, and then i m actually with some russians right now, some pro-kremlin youth group, and people here say that they have very negative opinions toward hillary clinton because of her comments that she made during the debate talking about russia as an adversary and they re much more favorable or hopeful about what the new administration will bring. our chief foreign
2006. it flattened out here after the economic croesus in 2008 and started rising again just a few hours ago. it actually hit a record high against the u.s. dollar from an exchange rate of more than 8 five years ago. as you can see, it actually dipd under 6.5 for the dollar. they say it s not appreciates fast enough. okay. certainly it s a peak week. that s one of the things going on this week. plenty more going on this week. let s take a quick look at what it is. on tuesday, the budget announcement. cutback expected to be the dominant issue there. they want to reduce government revenue and welfare payment and they re expected to take a hit. now, on wednesday, a very interesting development at hsbc. it will follow up its imminent earnings statement with strategy making london.