The north of scotland bringing some showers here at High Pressure dominates further south, clearing away a weather front that brought cloud to the south first thing. The satellite image shows the cloud breaking up towards the channel isles, but a peppering of showers to the north west of scotland. We will continue to see a few showers, blustery conditions for the north and north west of scotland. Elsewhere, try winds and things should stay dry. Feeling fresher than yesterday, winds rotating from the west or north west. Temperature 1722, the west or north west. Temperature 17 22, pretty pleasant, particularly in the south with blue skies and sunshine. This evening and overnight, keep the clear skies over england and wales, more cloud over scotla nd england and wales, more cloud over scotland and Northern Ireland with the breeze picking up. Under the clear skies, quite chilly with temperatures well down into single figures across england and wales and the odd mist and fog patch likely. M
At the 10 year yield first. It continues to climb. 1. 87 . A lot of selling and bonds globally again today. We heard Bruce Bittles earlier saying 1. 90 , maybe 2 is where we are headed. We will speak with Marilyn Watson in a moment about global fixed income. The s p 500 continues to grind higher. All week it has been either flat or higher on the session. The best performer is freeport mike moran is freeport up nearly 5 . Wo bign has moved t figures this week as well. It is above 108. 04. Guy a lot going on in markets. Equities trading backup towards record high. Globally, shares doing well. I thing this is the third week of gains we are heading for. Trade fears may be easing a little bit. We also had the central bank story in there as well. The real story over the last three or four weeks has been this kind of real backup and yields. Bidst, massive bid, a fear attached to the global bond market. Since then, we started to go in the opposite direction. Marilyn watson, blackrock head of g
Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport withjohn watson, womens golf and the first day of the solheim cup. Yes, europe holed a one point advantage after the opening foursomes, with the fourball is now under way. Thank you very much. And darren has all the Weather Forecast for us this evening. It is looking a pretty picture. Will it deliver . Yes, it is lovely. Lots of sunshine gcioss yes, it is lovely. Lots of sunshine across the uk today and tomorrow. You probably wouldnt want to change that, but in japan, you probably wouldnt want to change that, but injapan, they are trying to change the weather. More on the latest attempt later. Thank you very much. Also coming up. A bumpersummer up. A bumper summer for butterflies. A once in a decade mass emergence of painted ladies saw nearly half a million recorded across the uk. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im martine croxall. Downing street has announced that borisjohnson will go to luxembourg on monday to hold talks with the pr
Paul our top stories this tuesday. To make axpected formal response to the growing unrest. Breaking news on the bloomberg terminal right now. Fromve correct accounts south korea for the month of june, and it is coming. 6. 376 billion dollars for the month of june. An improvement on the may figure of 4. 9 billion. You can see the korean won. It hit 1200 against the greenback yesterday. More consternation in korea. The hardest hit countries from this ever escalating trade war. You have to remember, these june figures do not count in the current spat with japan or the u. S. China trade war. That in mind, the figure of 6. 3 billion looks good. We will await the july figures. Shery investors have a lot on their plate today to digest. Ground, one losing point 5 after u. S. Equities lost more than 700 billion of market value just on this monday as we continue to see the trade war escalation between the u. S. And china. We saw the s p 500 lose 3 . Tech and financial leading the declines. It wa
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