Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve
On the beaches in libya, a storm daniel leeds, of the 6000 dead and 10000 missing. And the countries paced under you and Commission Reports reveals that the us strike killed a civilian in syria back in may despite washington initially lay minutes of target. But ill tell you that the end of july, from our studio here in moscow watching all t minus pizza scotts here with all the light this this wednesday evening. Thanks for joining us. For i was above 2 adults between building and 15 and the north korean leader, kim jong on rob. So with the ceremonial, the thought sneak cause of the drum on thursday, a wednesday. Excuse me, the latest hailed the 2 countries, friendship and corporation. It was, there was a program in korea was close. The you are the best with friends, the old of the best. And all people say an old friend is better than 2 new ones. These folk wisdom, so fully applicable to more than relations between all countries. I would like to propose a toast to the further strengtheni
M. We are breaking records but it is in light volume. Sth santa claus rally off to a strong start, day after christmas, a day where usually the s p finishes to the plus side 78 of the time. We want to point out groups that are leading the markets higher today. Utilities and health care, these sectors are the best performing. Leading the way, of course, they are rate sensitive. Utilities stronger throughout the year. Pull back a little bit in response to the weakness in crude prices. Retailers in the wake of numbers coming out. And then the International Council of Shopping Centers saying the growth this year for the Holiday Shopping season will be strongest in three years pretty much as expected. Those are best performing retailers. Amazon up on the news that it added 10 million prime customers. The dow just actually at its best levels of the day. Thank you very much. Lets get to Bertha Coombs where nat gas is falling today and dropping below 3. The first time in a couple of years. It
Rebounds there at least for the cac in france and dax in germany. Germany right now the dax is up 1. 5 . The cac is up by one and three quarters percent and we keep watching that Greece Market because of what it tells us about negotiations right now. In asia overnight you saw that the nikkei closed higher. Didnt follower as it tends to do from time to time. It closed up one third of a percent. The shanghai was up slightly. Well be talking about the broader markets including currencies and commodities in a molt. But stock has a look at the big stories driving todays trading. Lets start in europe. Ecb president mario draghi set to speak at a conference in frank frankfurt. Back here in the states theres plenty of speculation about what the fed will do or say at its next meeting. That twoday gathering is set to begin next tuesday but today the markets will also focus on the treasuries 21 billion auction of notes. And also worth watching today after the closing bell stress test. The fed is
I am sorry. This was the wrong decision. But i think its right that weve had a Public Inquiry in this country that is right that we have proper investigations. Yesterday, once again showed that no one is above the law in our country. Miliband . Mr. Speaker, today we know that for four years, the Prime Ministers handpicked closest adviser was a criminal and brought disgrace to downing street. We anyhow also know that the Prime Minister willfully ignored multiple warnings about him. On the 8th of july 2009, the guardian published evidence of phone hacking on an industrial scale when coulson was editor of the news of the world. At that time coulson was his director of communications. What action did he take . As i said a moment ago, the assurances i sought and received were the same assurances received by the press complaints commission, by select committee of this house and by police investigations. They were also thoroughly gone into by the leff levison inquir. Specifically, he talks ab