Its Sales Forecast was cut. Half of its previous years revenue went through china. Shery a check of the markets on thursday session in the u. S. Ost sectors in the green the nasdaq gaining the most in almost about a month and we had also semiconductors reversing yesterdays losses. We had markets very much focused on what the Federal Reserve will do next week, not to mention this focus on what will happen with oil. Energy stocks were one of the biggest gainers. Wti gaining as much as 4. 5 at one point. We saw two tankers being attacked new the entrance of the persian gulf, that heightening tensions around the region, sending crude prices higher. Sophie this friday, asian stocks could track the advance on wall street with some potential reissues. On the datas front in asia, we will get chinese productivity numbers. The attack on the tankers in the goldof oman has held up prices. Nearingion could be level it has been unable to break in five years. Paul thanks very much. Lets check in on f
Last years revenue went through china. Alibaba moves a step closer to a share sale in hong kong. The impending offer could raise as much as 20 billion. Shery lets get you started with a quick check on how markets closed. The s p 500 finishing at the highest level in five weeks. The nasdaq, the highest level in a month. Reversingtors yesterdays office to gain ground in yesterdays session. Most were in the green. They were led higher by Energy Stocks. Take a look at wti. Wti prices gained as much as 4. 5 at one point. Apparent attacks onto tankers on two tankers building up the tension in the persian gulf and leading investors to get worried about supply around oil. And we saw now on crude, jumping 2 in the last two sessions. U. S. Futures at the moment unchanged. Lets see how we are shaping up to the asian markets. Sophie this friday, were facing a mixed session with type and commodity sectors in focus. Get activity data from china later this morning. Investors will be watching to see i
calls for president putin to end the invasion. nato s secretary general, jens stoltenberg, insisted that ukraine must prevail as an independent state. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m sarah montague. when the uk handed hong kong back to china 25 years ago, the last words of the departing british governor to the people of the territory were, now hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehens
the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehensively broken their word, which is contained in an international treaty lodged at the united nations called thejoint declaration. you said at the time, you wrote at the time in the hong kong diaries, which you ve just published, that, ultimately, after the handover, much will depend on whether the chinese communist party can actually be trusted to honour one country, two systems, which was the deal agreed. hong kong s former chief executive, cy leung, who s now v
as long as it takes in its fight against russia. president vladimir putin has accused nato of having imperial ambitions and said its members had no interest in the well being of ukrainians. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m sarah montague. when the uk handed hong kong back to china 25 years ago, the last words of the departing british governor to the people of the territory were, now hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep thei