Anna dealing with deceleration. Chinas economy slows to the weakest since the 1990s. Flat. Er ipo goes ab inbevs asia unit pulls its share sales. Its stakes to boost in of the belgian company. Program. Ack to the matt it is a pleasure to be back. Futures slightly gaining across european equities. We had asian stocks pairing closed, chinahas doing well with a weaker gdp rating for the Second Quarter. June data points higher. Dax futures up 0. 2 . Cac futures 0. 1 . Ftse futures unchanged. Anna you are away for a week and im sorry, we dont have anything more exciting for you to return to. European equity markets and asian markets, you can see the top line. To get more exciting. We hear from jay powell. There will be lots to talk about. There is lots to talk about as we prepare you for the week ahead. Asian equities and in particular chinese equities recouping losses on the back of data coming out of china. New zealand dollar, quite a lot of trade between new zealand and the aussie dollar
Training as a regular army soldier . Mr. Lomell i have to go to a ranger school, to begin with, that specialized in many things regular troops do not have to submit to. It is altogether different, a specialized field, a specialized mission, and you have to cope and train for that mission or whatever it may be. When did you actually Enter Service . Mr. Lomell that was in june of 1942. Right after pearl harbor. Your first combat action, was that in normandy . Mr. Lomell my first combat action, yes. Why dont you tell me about, from your training in the states, tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made for the normandy invasion. Mr. Lomell i have to tell you that from my point of view, because i dont think the troops of which i was a part of had any knowledge, advanced knowledge, that dday would be our first combat. We were ready for combat then, but they were going to give us specialized training, so the training i got after i entered the rangers was generalized
When you volunteer for rangers, what changed from your training as a regular army soldier . They specialize in many things bigger troops do not have to submit to. Different, aer specialized field, a specialized cope. N and you have to when did you Enter Service . Of 42. As in june was that in normandy . My first combat action. Yes. Why dont you tell me about from your training, tell me about your trip over to england and the preparation you made. I have to tell you that from my point of view, because i had anyink the troops advanced knowledge that dday would be our first combat. Then,e ready for combat but they were going to give specialized training, so the training we got after i entered generalizedwas ranger tactics and ranger training. Referring to any particular place we may have trained while we were there, i will explain a few. Tell me where the rangers. Rained dont go too fast. We were at camp forrest tennessee. We came from different parts of the bases, different parts of the
This is what were saying when it comes to hong kong, up more than 2 at the moment. The bestints or so, rallies of the year when it comes to the hang seng. Large caps also up by close to 2 . The nikkei doing quite well, the only thing really on here that is red is the japanese yen given the risk on session we are seeing. Singapores coming online also, up more than 1. 4 . Asian currencies, were seeing quite a bit of strength, following the offshore renminbi. 689 overnight, we are hovering around 690. This is after we saw the biggest move higher for the currency since april. We will see if the trade optimism it is certainly lifting asia fx. We will see what we are seeing my comes to the overnight session. Aboutenure treasury up one basis point, but we are getting closer to the 10 . Ecb and mario draghi talking about how stimulus measures are on route, that rate cuts are still be key weapons they will be using. We are seeing the bond market continued to head lower. Hit zero foryear the fir
I may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges. Particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country and particularly of its military history is being widely ignored and thats got to be fixed. And one of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in this 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation, on memorial day we honored americans who had paid the supreme sacrifice in all of our wars. But weve always felt a particular closeness to what we call the greatest generation many of whom are slowly passing from the scene. Steven ambrose, biographer said the quality of character that we impute to them is one which has grown increasingly rare in our culture. Namely, modesty. More than one of these gentlemen is said to me that when people thank him for his service, he is embarrassed. He thanks them for their thanks. But what else wo