on rail, which has limited people s ability to make trips. and then, of course, the rise in interest rates that we ve seen recently has started to really hit home injuly. it s looking a bit brighter here on london s main shopping street today. these footfall figures don t tell you anything about actual spending, of course. there s always online, and when it comes to bad weather, not everyone s complaining. this soft play centre in dudley has just had their busiest month in 19 years. i ve never known a july like it. we re just, we ve been constantly busy now for four weeks. the admission numbers are up and we are getting a lot of new customers, or people who maybe wouldn t normally come to soft play. but for many other high street businesses, the weather has put a dampener on visits. emma simpson, bbc news. wilko, one of the uk s biggest discount retail chains, is heading towards administration.
development mean for asia? i put that question to catherine yeung. in terms of what it s going to do for asian markets, it s really going to erase some of the negative sentiment. markets hate uncertainty. this indecisiveness has put a bit of a dampener that we are seeing with the chinese economy. the big countries in this part of the world, china, japan, big holders of us treasuries, so what will this mean for them moving forward? absolutely. $2 trillion worth. we look at those countries, they make up over a quarter of the outstanding monies owed. definitely relief for those governments knowing some kind of arrangement has been made. given the fragile state